More than a year after the catastrophe of October 29, 2024, Teresa Rivera, then Minister of Ecological Transition, has mentioned the tragedy again without providing an explanation. Lack of implementation of hydropower works … This would have reduced the impact of flooding in the southern Horta area.
But he admitted that the Pollo Valley, where most of the deaths occurred, and La Saleta, the epicenter of the Valencian region, were not prepared for the fountain, which killed 229 people in an “extreme case”.
They were “prepared over a period of 100 years, but this meant an outflow of over 500 years.” “Maybe we were approaching a thousand years back.” “The average time calculated when an event is designed to happen again,” he said in a speech at a conference organized by the PSOE in a room of the European Parliament, attended by socialist leaders in Valencia and large representatives of victims’ organizations. Framework: Approval this Thursday in Brussels of 946.1 million euros from the Solidarity Fund to reduce the impact of the catastrophe.
Less than a month after the barrage, Rivera left the Spanish government and was appointed vice president of the European Commission. Although he was responsible for managing the dharnas in Congress and the Senate; It was not possible to visit ground zero. The Jucar Hydrographic Federation and its hydropower infrastructure, which had been in the drawer for decades, depended on his department, which he did not promote after taking over the executive board with Pedro Sánchez in 2018.
In his speech, Rivera urged people to use “green infrastructure, floodplains and nature-based solutions” to prepare for increasingly extreme events that could happen again. In this sense, he spoke about the study of a “satellite emergency alert service” throughout the European Union through the Galileo system. “Continuing to improve” meteorological and hydrological warnings.
He also called for a confrontation with climate change deniers. «Recently, we have seen messages about what is possible. Preconditions for government agreement“We are very concerned,” he said, referring to Vox’s demands to reject the European Green Pact and invest in PP candidate Juanfran Pérez Llorca as president of the autonomous government of Valencia after the resignation of Carlos Massón.
He regrets that the Spanish municipality near Valencia wants to revise the cartography carried out in 2007 to construct what is now classified as a “map”. flood zone Alternatively, the ministry may have established standards and then built directly at that location.
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