Campaign by the GOB in favour of a building and tourist moratorium

The GOB has presented a new campaign with the slogan "Mallorca at its limit. It's time to stop" it intends to stabilise the capacity of accommodation and building, to stabilise the number of tourists that visit us, to obtain a rational and sustainable administration of the natural resources and not to build large transport infrastructure (motorways, a new runway at the airport, ports..)

According to the ecological organisation "the present situation of realestate and residential expansion has reached absolutely exaggerated landmarks causing an obvious saturation of the natural resources and the collapse of the most important infrastructure. This situation is manifest by determined facts such as during the last three years the number of residential places that has received visas from the official colleges has been over 40,000 per year or that the increase in number of tourists is about 5%, that is between 400,000 and 500,000 people more each year. On the other hand, the consumption of water increases each year approximately 7%, the power consumption between 8 and 12% and during 1999 the production of waste increased 9.4%.

With this campaign the GOB intends to open a debate within society and at the same time to lobby the institutions on the changes to be introduced and the measures to be adopted to detain this growth. In this line, all kinds of activities will be organised, informative, promotional, vindicating and debates.

Date of publication: 27/06/2000

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