• Ricobayo Zamora mobilizes against Iberdrola for emptying a swamp in the midst of escalating electricity prices

  • Ricobayo Iberdrola assures that the exploitation of the Ricobayo reservoir "is being carried out within the permitted range"

The third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, has described as "scandalous" the situation suffered by

the reservoirs of Ricobayo (Zamora) and Valdecañas (Cáceres), both managed by Iberdrola,

in the face of the "drastic "reduction of its waters and has ensured that the utility is already being investigated, to which a letter has been sent" to tell it that this cannot be.

"It is not reasonable to empty a reservoir in practically 6 weeks, as has happened in Zamora," the third vice president denounced in an interview in the program 'Al rojo vivo' of La Sexta collected by Europa Press.

Given this, the minister has advanced that article 55 of the Water Law will have to be applied, where it is foreseen that for extraordinary reasons limitations can be introduced to the emptying of the flow of the reservoirs.

Ribera explained that this situation has to do with the concession clauses, which probably did not foresee an intervention to guarantee ecological and minimum flows in the reservoirs, but rather a volume of water concessioned per year.

"That is why

the company justifies that they are complying with all the requirements

and this seems scandalous to me," he

remarked.

The minister has argued that the water cannot remain in a maximum allowed annual volume without any type of criteria regarding its distribution and use over time and therefore managed directly by the concession company in accordance with "what is economically at all times suits them best. "

"This is legitimate but it is not reasonable for it to happen, so we want to intervene as soon as possible," he pointed out.

Ribera has remarked that the Government has contacted the company and has announced that the Secretary of State for the Environment will have a meeting next week with the mayors of the affected areas.

"We cannot allow this to happen. Water is a scarce commodity as important for the well-being of families and economic activity, as is electricity," he remarked.

Precisely organizations such as Facua-Consumidores en Acción have asked the National Competition Market Commission (CNMC) this Friday to

investigate the "drastic" reduction of water

in case the company could be taking advantage of the situation of the new rates and the increase in cost of the light to drain more water than it should and thus multiply its hydroelectric production.

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