The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, highlighted in As Somozas the boost that the Just Transition funds are giving to the industrial transformation of Ferrolterra. It did so during the visit to the works of the future waste treatment plant that the firm Valogreene, a joint company of the Galician Recinor and the Alicante Greene, raises in the Somozas and receives 3 million euros from the Government for its construction and implementation.
The delegate, who was accompanied by the subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas; the agent of the territory in Fair Transition Agreements in Galicia, Nuria Álvarez; the mayor of As Somozas, Juan Alonso Tembrás, and directors of both companies, indicated that the Government allocates 8 million euros in aid for innovative industrial projects in the territories affected by the closure of the thermal power plants of Meirama (Cerceda) and As Pontes, to which must be added the 12 million that the Institute for the Fair Transition of the Ecological Infrastructures, In the case of As Somozas, he said, the Concello received 971,824 euros for the rehabilitation of municipal schools and their conversion to social housing and socio-community equipment.
“They are money called to transform these territories and to improve the quality of life of the neighbors of As Somozas and Galicia; 20 million euros in total that reaffirm the commitment of the Government with the transformation of the productive model by another more respectful of the environment; with the creation of employment and with the fixation of population in these regions,” said Pedro Blanco.
The Valogreene project
The Galician Recinor and Greene, based in Elche (Alicante), represented in the act by the general director of the first, José Laugh, and the commercial director of the second, Jesús Martínez, are erecting in the polygon of As Somozas a waste recovery plant that will allow to treat 40,000 tons of industrial waste annually without possible treatment, which currently ends in rubble or incinerated, to obtain a biooil that gives rise to new plastic materials.
The plant is built on a plot of 18,000 square meters in the As Somozas Estate and the investment for its construction amounts to 33.5 million euros, of which the Government, through the funds of the Institute for the Just Transition, contributes 3 million euros. It involves the creation of 25 direct jobs and around 40 indirect jobs.
The project is framed within the EU’s circular economy objectives, since the recovery of this waste achieves a reduction of greenhouse gases of 8,000 tons with respect to waste disposal and 30,000 tons with respect to incineration processes.