WORLD WORLDWIDE SPAIN News Journal Update - (en) Spain, Aragon, Apoyo Mutuo #10 COLECTIVIDAD: The Pyrenees is not for sale - Ana Resya and JulsCM (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Since the 1950s, the Aragonese Pyrenees have become an area of

speculation and political gain, using the natural resources it offered
in a propagandistic way. This has made snow, the construction of
buildings, mass tourism and everything related to the resource
exploitation system the economic engine of the area, leaving the
activities of the primary sector, the predominant one in the area,
almost as a memory of generations past. Little by little, the disaster
of using the Pyrenees as a tourist brand has made a dent in what the
Government of Aragon offered abroad, since it has meant a loss of
biodiversity, culture, traditions and roots, in favor of of the
exploitation of both the people and the resources of the area.

As a consequence of this, and especially since the
seventies, the people who inhabited the Pyrenees have
had to go to other places, generally to
provincial capitals, due to the way of life
unsustainable energy that is being generated in the valleys. Prices
of exorbitant housing (the most expensive m2 of all
Aragón is located in Sallent de Gállego), works
precarious and seasonal, public services
overwhelmed and underfunded due to fluctuations in
the population in certain periods of the year, lack of
investment where tourism has not taken over the
towns etc

For this reason, those of us who live in the Pyrenean valleys do not
We are surprised that they have considered the construction of
two new ski resort unions, one of them
passing through the valley of Canal Roya, one of the few
valleys left untouched by construction companies in the
Pyrenees.

What has surprised us is the public response,
already fed up with speculation, with impositions on
that the centralist governments and those of the
ghost projects that sell to be revulsive in the area
and the only thing they bring is more precariousness and depopulation.

It seems that the population sees what the politicians do not, and that
is that
the area can no longer bear this model of exploitation and
they want a change towards more respectful models. A
change that develops according to the environment in which
in which we live, that respects the living beings that inhabit it and
that offers alternatives to an outdated tourism model and
that will only bring the abandonment of these valleys, dead of
uprooting

Thanks to the social mobilization initiated through the
PDMA (Platform in Defense of the Mountains of
Aragon) and with the formation of the Canal Roya Assembly
(Chacetania), as the organizing entity of the actions, the
neighbors have achieved, through their commitment and
organization, demonstrations, concentrations, acts
informative and visibility campaigns, which
municipalities of the affected towns reject a
project with which the Government of Aragon and the elites
economic thought to line their pockets.

Even so, there are numerous projects that put into play
the survival of the Pyrenees and, in general, the survival
of all the rural areas of Aragon, which must be
paralyzed through the participation of society, not
only of the affected areas, but of all the people who
we make up Aragon. high voltage lines,
wind and photovoltaic macroparks or the swamps,
can leave without employment and future alternatives to
many neighbors and further deteriorate a landscape and a
depleted land for decades.

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