Generalitat is a new “forest cooperation” fund To improve the maintenance of forests, prevent fires and encourage reforestation, Valencia will donate 50m euros to city councils and propose to county councils to add another 30m to this plan.
Time will tell whether this cooperation fund will create a new conflict like the existing one between institutions. Valencian general and Alicante Provincial Councilbecause the provincial agency refused to join Consell’s initiative and began launching its alternative proposal, Plan + Cerca.
President Ximo Puig, in his keynote speech at the general policy debate at the Cortes Generales, put forward the start of the new fund after a summer marked by “fundamental”. big fires It affected us all around Bejís (Castellón) and Vall d’Ebo (Alicante)”, he said.
Fires with unusual virulence endangering populations, lives, and people, Puig recalled. natural heritage. Although “fortunately” there were no deaths, he showed his support to all the wounded and assured that they would receive “all the help of the Generalitat”.
Faced with the “worrying reality” of climate change, he advocated “double our guard” and do it without delay. To this end, he emphasized the creation of an analysis and “intelligence” unit in 2023. emergenciesWith a mission to “perfect” decision-making with simulators and artificial intelligence, located in the 112 and integrated into forward command posts.
In addition, 45 firefighting vehicles over a maximum period of four years. Forest firefighters of the GeneralitatAs well as the fact that helicopter units will grow from seven to ten members and an “exclusive service” of preventive air surveillance will be created.
“It’s a common goal: to protect the region, to protect Valencia’s interests. And unity must prevail in this case,” he said.
At the same time, Puig made a statement. new hotline With five million euros in 2023 to compensate agricultural owners who save or maintain crops in areas of strategic forest value, a “pioneering initiative in Spain”.
Another of their announcements is the “acceleration” of implantation. Agricultural Structures LawIn order to gain competitiveness through mechanisms such as grouping farms or contacting land supply and demand.
Transfer
On the other hand, he assured once again that Consell would defend the country. Tajo-Segura transfer Before cutting off irrigation additives. “We will work hand in hand with the irrigationists and without unproductive partisanship in offices and courts,” said the leader of the PSPV.
He pointed out that the goals are to ensure 100% reuse. Purified water, Greater efficiency in the use of the Segura basin’s own resources and a better price for desalinated water “with the Ministry”.