Unless the Spanish government adopted strong measures and rules against the settlements along the Spanish Mediterranean coast, they will break it all together. Environment Association Greenpeace warns of total collapse.
That’s the warning from Greenpeace in a new disappointing report on the destruction of the Spanish coast, “Destruccion a toda costa 2013”.
The most serious problem is in the Spanish region of Valencia, where 51 percent of the coastal areas devastated by the cement and building. The province Catalonia on a little-coveted second place with 44 percent of their coastal communities and Andalusia municipality comes in third with 36 percent.
About half of the Spanish Mediterranean coast is now built on, according to Greenpeace report. In the period between 1987 and 2005 built two acres of coast within 500 meter zone from the coast, every day.
If we look closely at the Spanish provinces, shows satellite measurements that 74 percent of the coast of Castellón in the northern Costa Blanca is covered with cement, followed by Valencia province with 71 and Almeria with 39 percent.
Castellón, Valencia and Almeria, the Spanish provinces over the past 18 years of property speculation has broken most of the rules in favor of new construction.
Greenpeace has also unveiled its “top ten” of the municipalities that have most coastal settlements.
On the black and first place will Calpe (Alicante), followed by Calvia (Mallorca), Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz), Cubelles (Barcelona), Oliva (Valencia), Oropesa (Castellón), San Bartolomé de Canaria (Gran Canaria) San Josep de sa Talaia (Ibiza), Vera (Almería) and Zierbena (Biscay).
Municipalities Chiclana de la Frontera in Cadiz province, increasing its population from 80,000 residents to 300,000 in the summer and Oliva in Valencia is the municipality that has conducted the most extensive urbanization and building of their “front-line” site, says Pilar Marcos, director Greenpeace España coast campaign.
The opposite of the above buildings municipalities shows Greenpeace organization report several examples of “good practice” as Ispaster municipality in Biscay, Villaviciosa (Asturias), Albuñol (Granada), Fuencaliente (La Palma) and Vallehermoso (La Gomera), which is among the 155 municipalities only built up 3.2 percent of the first 500 feet of shoreline.
Nijar (Almería), Almonte (Huelva), Cadaqués (Girona), Sant Carles de la Rápita (Tarragona) and Tarifa (Cádiz) mentioned that the municipalities that have naturally protected most of its coastline.
In the context of climate change and rising sea levels are several areas in Spain in acute risk assessment according to Greenpeace. Isla Cristina (Huelva), Pedregalejo (Málaga) and Empuriabrava (Girona) are at risk of flooding in the future, they warn.
Greenpeace estimates gathered that if action is not taken strong measures against future settlement of the Spanish coast, the Mediterranean provinces of a total collapse soon.
Greenpeace organization will in the fall to make a complaint to the EU within the framework of the Spanish government’s adoption of the new Coastal Act, which legalizes thousands of illegal buildings along the Spanish coast. The organization believes that it is incompatible with EU directives.
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