Setbal ordered to shoot over a thousand trees to prevent fires – No

"The cutting of trees was decided in order to comply with the legislation to defend the forest against fire and the safeguarding of people and property in this locality near Azeitão", Alderman Manuel Pisco, vice – President of Setúbal House.

"There was no cork slaughtered without the permission of the competent authorities, namely the National Institute of Nature Conservation and Forest (ICNF)," added the responsible for the CDU.

The deputy mayor of Setúbal thus reacts to the protest of some residents who consider that there has been excessive intervention by the municipality of Severnal, particularly with regard to the slaughter of the cork oaks , an idea refuted by the sadina altar.

"We understand that some residents do not like the change that took place because they got used to being surrounded by a pine forest, but in recent months we have also expressed concerns about the possibility of fires.As what happened last year, this has put people and property in question and we understand it with a serious warning, "Manuel said. Pisco.

"In Pinhal de Negreiros we do not have an urbanization with a set of landscaped trees, but a residential area built in the middle of a pine forest, at one time where the criteria of the legislation were less tight and there was not the same The sensitivity that exists today, to the problem of forest fires, in the face of the tragedies of the last year ", has said the mayor, recalling that strict compliance with the law would have forced the massacre of about three thousand trees in Pinhal de Negreiros.

Regarding the cork oaks, Manuel Pisco recalled that some of the cork oaks had already been affected by the fire of last year, others were next to the cork oaks. 39, a gas tank or had electrical cables near the canopy.

The Mayor of Seville recalled that an intervention had never been made to create security corridors to prevent the spread of fires in this area of ​​pine forest, in order to minimize risks to people and property. buildings, equipment and infrastructure for the development of Pinhal de Negreiros.