In a meeting of the Mazarrón Town Council Plenary session last week, all the members categorically rejected a plan to start mining in the municipality, preferring to keep the land as a natural resource of cultural and tourist value.

The vote was in response to a management plan of mineral and land resources by the higher regional authorities, which proposed sites to begin mining “for mineral resources in the Region of Murcia”.

With this plan, the Regional government wanted to elaborate “a sustainable territorial model for the planning and integral management of the mineral resources of the Region of Murcia, compatible with the objectives of other regional planning policies”, but Mazarrón Town Council has stated that it “categorically will not accept that the mining resources of the municipality are intended for the exploitation of mining”.

Instead, the Councillors in Mazarrón are demanding that the local land “continue to be put in value as a tourist, cultural and natural resource”.

Flooding in the Bahia district

In the same meeting, the Council also approved a motion to require the Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura (CHS) to remove the flood risk in the Bahia urbanisation.

The Mazarrón Town Council said in a statement, “It is time to join forces on important issues such as the floods that have been occurring in our municipality for decades.”