Senator José Manuel Rodríguez claims “to know the whole truth” of the accident
The third vice president of the government and Minister for the Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, said Tuesday that the Government acted “with total responsibility and agility” before, during and after the fatal accident in the Asturian Zarréu coal mine in which five workers died.
Aagesen has answered a question of the PP senator José Manuel Rodríguez on how the government values its performance before, during and after the incident of Zarréu’s mining exploitation on March 31.
The Senator of the PP for Asturias has demanded that the third vice president “know the whole truth” of the accident that cost the lives of five neighbors of Villablino (León) and has reproached him that the government “does not control subsidies” that grants certain companies.
In this regard, he has pointed out that the resolution of the Institute for Fair Transition, under the Ministry of Aagesen, recognizes subsidies to both the company Blue Solving SL, owner of the mine, as well as to Asturian and Leonesa SL fuels, belonging, has stressed, “to the same family framework.”
In his response, Aagesen has affirmed that “the government acted with total responsibility and will continue to act with total responsibility and agility.”
Following the script that the popular senator has proposed, the head of ecological transition has defended that the central executive acted “before” of the accident “with agility”, when from the Institute for the Just Transition it was transferred that “there were indications” that “an illegal extraction” could be developing and was informed “immediate” of the mining authority.
“During,” the Government delegation “was present at all times,” coordinating the performance of emergency services, the Civil Guard teams, the different health and protection teams for an effective response.
And “now,” he concluded, the government is “waiting for what arises” of the different investigations in progress. “All public administrations have to work to clarify the acts of what happened in the mine,” he said.
Regarding companies, the third vice president has stated that “they cannot finance any type of extraction” and that “the winning company, in addition, has not yet received a euro from the Institute for the Fair Transition.”
