Mértola: Alcochete shooting range you can move to the county.
With the expansion of the airport Humberto Delgado, in Lisbon, the Alcochete shooting range may be forced to close. studied hypothesis 2008 to be discussed. The Mértola House is completely against.
According to the newspaper Expresso, to confirm the opening of the Montijo airport to civilian flights, with the extension of Humberto Delgado Airport, the shooting range located in Alcochete should be relocated and Mértola back to emerge as a strong hypothesis, found Expresso.
It is a land connection in the Mértola to Serpa, northeast of Pulo do Lobo, on the left bank of the Guadiana, which had already been studied by the Air Force 2008, when it was taken for granted the location of the new Lisbon airport in Alcochete.
As the Express reported in August, if the Government decides the expansion of the Lisbon airport using the airbase No. 6 Air Force in Montijo that will force changes in military device, second branch accounts, could reach 400 million. this value, We have not recorded any impact on the future of the Alcochete shooting range.
If there is more than 12 movements of commercial flights per hour (a landing / takeoff five minutes) It is concerned the activity field, He assured the Express source connected to means. Now, ANA provides this number of moves just in the first year of activity, may rise to 20 no second.
Relocating the Alcochete shooting range may fatten the invoice at least in 250 million, that based on such a study already done in the Sócrates government time, when it planned to build a greenfield airport on the south bank.
Na height, the presidents of Mértola and Serpa chambers were against the installation of a shooting range, claiming to the location indicated by the Air Force was planned to build a large tourist resort. The project extended by the two municipalities Alentejo and it was the responsibility of the Spanish prosecutors.
However, the project was never built due to "sensitive issues", He justified the Express source office communication Serpa House, which currently refuses to take any position on the issue.
However, the Municipality of Mértola remains "completely against" the investment at that location. "There are still other reasons. This hypothesis is a double blunder, that our country can not in any way commit at this time, and can not support. We have an accepted place and run for shooting range, in Alcochete, and we have built infrastructure in Beja, which can be an excellent alternative to overcrowding Portela ", justifies the mayor Jorge Rosa.
The mayor also points out that the relocation of the field may jeopardize the development of municipalities, "Particularly in the tourist industry", as well as environmental level. "There are still considering the strategy that the government has had for this region, namely the creation of the protected area, the recovery of several species endangered, that disappear from the site ", concerns.
The Air Force, for now, nothing to say about Alcochete. Contacted the public relations office of the General Staff of the Air Force (EMFA), the answer on the future location was: "We know nothing about it."
According to information given to the Express, the possibility of 'transfer' Mértola was placed in a particular scenario, based "in a former study". But how it did not materialize the airport change, "No further developments".
Any further consideration or decision will depend, that is why, "Of that may be required – if it will be the – in terms of using the Air Base of Montijo ".
Credits: Photo Journal Express
