Airport: And if the plan B was Beja?
The take-off seems harder each passing day. The construction of the airport in Montijo, as a complement to the Portela, is deadlocked.
Featured Article: The Air Base of Beja, with capacity for large aircraft, It is available and potentiate the creation of road and rail accesses to the interior Alentejo. A solution, no doubt, with multiple benefits.
Article by Paula Ferreira opinion, Deputy executive editor of Jornal de NotÃcias (JN), published in today's print editions and online JN.
After “veto” the mayors of Moita, Seixal, Sesimbra, Setúbal and Palmela, You know now that the National Civil Protection Authority (ANPC) also advises against this option. In other words: the security conditions are not guaranteed.
In the light of new data, Government will continue to say that there is no plan B? Faced with so many adverse conditions, common sense dictates find an alternative.
In its opinion sent to the Portuguese Environment Agency in September, and now released, The ANPC highlights the risk of accidents with birds, but also the susceptibility of the region to earthquakes and tsunamis. Another entity to join the chorus of those who consider wrong location of the future airport. António Costa conditions have to insist on a solution that seems only interested to ANA? In January 2019, the airport management company signed an agreement with the government to expand the airport to the South Rim, adapting the air base of Montijo.
Recognizing a mistake is a great virtue. It is time for the government of António Costa draw new destination, instead of addressing the changing legislation to circumvent the lead from local authorities to the project, whose opinion is binding.
Not build Montijo, a bird protection zone, also mean direct impact on the quality of life of thousands of people, mainly due to noise. Go Montijo mitigate the problem of having an airport next to a big city? Just look at the map to realize that not. It would be an opportunity for the Government to show genuine interest in the inner.
The Air Base of Beja, with capacity for large aircraft, It is available and potentiate the creation of road and rail accesses to the interior Alentejo. A solution, no doubt, with multiple benefits.
