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Local villages still in shock after the fire in la Serra del Cardo Boix

1. Villagers are still trying to come to terms with the devastation caused by the recent fires. This state of shock is exaggerated because of the memories of other fires from 1995 and 2005. Local authorities have repeated their calls for management strategies for tackling the risk of new fires which would reduce the impact of any new incidents. They are asking for the enactment of measures that were presented this spring by the University of Lleida which include the cleaning of undergrowth, controlled burning and the management of the forests either through grazing or biomass projects.

One of the suppliers to the Aldea cooperative mounts a solitary protest

2. Javier Garcia, owner of Sanitub Delta, plans to start a solitary protest against the cooperative this next week because of the serious financial problems his company has as a result of Aldea’s cooperative’s financial collapse. Sanitub was responsible for the installation of the watering systems for lands that form the cooperative as well as having its own personal bank account with the cooperative’s credit section. Garcia says that the believes the council in Aldea will back his protest and that the cooperative will have to take steps soon.

Vandellos 2 the nuclear power station is being recharged

3. The power station is now undergoing the eighteenth recharging of its working life so far. The station was disconnected from the electric network this last Saturday while the recharging is in process. The station is changing 69 of its 157 fuel rods and also undergoing maintenance and inspections. The company has announced that the work will mean jobs for one thousand two hundred workers in the sixty different companies involved and will cost sixty three point eight million euros. When the work has been completed the power station will be able to operate for another year and a half without further recharging.

Gas Natural Fenosa invests half a million euros to bring gas to Ametlla

1. Work will start next June on the infrastructure of pipes that will bring natural gas to all the homes in Ametlla. The network will be 5000 metres long in total and have over 400 connections in this first phase of the installation. At the same time the company is going to start work on the connection of the storage centre for liquid gas and the system in Ametlla. Miquel Andreu Lopez, spokesman for the company, called the plan ambitious and said that work on the connection to Ametlla would start in a couple of weeks and then work on the network in Ametlla itself would start in three months time.

Resident in El Camp de Tir in Alcanar accuse Simex of creating clouds of dust

2. Local residents have accused the cement factory of Alcanar platja and its owner Simex of emiting clouds of dust that Neighbors say are affecting their houses. The dust is released, they say, during the early hours of the morning, when it is raining or on days when there is thick cloud cover so that local people don’t realize what is happening. After the complaints authorities opened a file on the company but now say that the complaints are unfounded. Simex have said that they haven’t received any complaints and that contamination levels are within legal limits. Neighbors say they have complained to the company on numerous occasions and now are saying that the company should pay for their houses to be painted once a year, for their cars to be cleaned and for half the maintenance costs in local olive fields.

The Quicos promote the Jota in a summer school

3. The famous local group have said that they will take part in the summer school “Jota Campus” between the 23^rd and the 28^th of July Poblenou in the delta. The school will be part of the network of schools promoting Popular Catalan culture and will combine studies of the Jota, singing, dance and its music, with work on local culture and good clean fun. The network will have seventeen schools in total spread across the whole of Catalunya.