Right-wing opposition parties are on this Monday.stagnant politics On Consel’s mount” and demanded “more protection measures.” Elisa Díaz, spokesperson for the popular group Environment in Las Cortes, asked president Ximo Puig for “more fire prevention measures” and “a turn in the sedentary policies on the mountain.” ” forest management sustainability, forestry, bioeconomy and crop care before it’s too late. If fire prevention studies were carried out, we would be more prepared and we would not have to invest so much in fire extinguishing vehicles.”
The popular spokesman demanded that Puig “listen to the experts and return 180 degrees to his sedentary politics in our mountains.” Every year, we are impressed by the PP with a long list of proposals to be made in our rural world to prevent fires, which are fundamental both in tackling climate change and in depopulation”. Díaz said from the public group that “we will continue to propose measures and in the next general policy discussion on the Community situation, a sustainable forest management“With special measures aimed at preventing fires in our rural world, both in the fight against climate change and depopulation, and to convey what forestry experts say to those who Consell de Puig does not listen”.
According to the popular spokesperson, “Consel’s prevention policies, which are far from idealistic to let nature take its course, are incomplete. They don’t take into account that about 60% of the forest floor in our community is soil. personal property and therefore public-private cooperation needs to be active and continuous. But Puig lives with his back on that fact.” Díaz said, “When Botànic de Puig arrived, sustainable forest management projects carried out in our mountains were paralyzed, projects financed with European funds from the PDR (Rural Development Program 2014-2020) were replaced, eliminated. making it difficult for firefighting and aid to reach small forest owners. “Our mountains are pure powder keg full of fallen trees in pine forests, full of dry matter and turning into a dangerous fuel.”
Finally, the popular spokesperson said, “It’s not about raising the budget with actions that don’t respond to the demands of experts and forest owners that Konsell needs to deal with.” prevent fires. Sustainable and active forest management should be based on forestry and bioeconomy. Puig should stop putting more rods on the wheels, make crops easier to maintain and encourage more as they are the best firewalls. Unfortunately, the Community of Valencia is instead the leader in crop abandonment”.
José Luis Aguirre, deputy of the Vox Comunidad Valenciana parliamentary group, criticized the Valencian Government and the Sánchez Government “not doing their duty to prevent and clean up the Valencia mountains during the winter, which is, accordingly,”. experts, when I really know prevent fires”. “Then we see the worst fire wave in historical series and the worst fire season of the century,” Aguirre said. And the truth is that in the Community of Valencia, work is not done when the time comes”. And he added, “The Valencian Government cannot attribute the fires to climate change, a large part of it is due to the inability to manage it.”
The MP insisted, “Given the abandonment our mountains are experiencing, we asked the Consul the percentage of the degree to which each of the prevention plans was implemented relative to what was planned. Forest fires in municipalities and nature parks. Because what is clear is that things are not going well,” he said. On the other hand, Aguirre said the problem with the management of Valencia’s forests “also affects owners of private Valencia forest areas, who have seen in recent years how subsidies for their land to carry out prevention duties have decreased”. From 2500 Euros to 800 per hectare. A completely insufficient amount,” he concluded.
In his defence, Paco Gil, PSPV-PSOE Environmental Spokesperson at the Valencia Courts, disparaged the “deliberate oversight” of the People’s Party and stated that “unlike when others ruled, it is now a part of the Valencian Community. forest policy which takes 365 days in a year. “Thanks to continued work and citizens’ responsibility, 2021 has been the third year that the number of wildfires has been the least in official statistics,” Gil said.
In this sense, the socialist MP stressed “Consell de Puig’s financial and budgetary effort to prevent fires” and said, “The budget allocated for fire fighting has increased by 24% since 2016, reaching 101 million euros. Gil said, “PP only cares about fires when summer comes. , but luckily we have an action plan that spans the year, allowing us to respond with guarantees,” said a socialist spokesperson for the Environment. common responsibility of citizens He pointed out that dealing with this kind of situation” because “it is a collective task where one phone call can change everything”.