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The Galicians 'launch' to the Ulla River to demonstrate against Altri's macrocellulose: "We are on a war footing"

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Thousands of Galicians have put the cry in the sky in recent months and the reason has its own name: Altri, a Portuguese multinational company that plans to install a cellulose plant in the town of Palas de Rei. "We are at war because it is a real aberration what they are going to do here", assures 20 minutes Zeltia Laya, spokesman for the Ulloa Viva platform, one of the organizations that has called a descent down the Ulla river on May 4 to den…

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After being excluded from the DEcarbonization PERTE, among other reasons, due to CO2 emissions, the Greenfiber website maintains that the macrocellulose will have "energy self-sufficiency" while calling on the government to build an electric substationImmadurez, CO2 emissions, deadlines: this is how Altri lost 30 million from Europe to settle in Galicia The GAMA project website — the Altri-driven macrocellulose in Palas de Rei (Lugo) through Gre…

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More than a hundred ships dropped down the Ulla River to Padron in a protest against the project of the Portuguese paper factory Altri, in Palas de King, Spain.

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More than a hundred boats, including rafts, kayaks and canoes, have descended this morning from the Ulla River to Padrón (A Coruña) in a new protest called by several neighboring platforms and environmental associations against Altri's cellulose macroplant project in Palas de Rei (Lugo), according to EFE.This protest event, culminating in a concentration and reading of a manifesto, has deployed for the last stretch of the Ulla, from Ponte de Sin…

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Thousands of Galicians have put the cry in the sky in recent months and the reason has its own name: Altri, a Portuguese multinational company that plans to install a cellulose plant in the town of Palas de Rei. "We are at war because it is a real aberration what they are going to do here", assures 20 minutes Zeltia Laya, spokesman for the Ulloa Viva platform, one of the organizations that has called a descent down the Ulla river on May 4 to den…

·Madrid, Spain
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Faced with the threat of the installation of a cellulose macroplant by the company Altri, supported by the Xunta de Galicia, the citizenry has mobilized en masse to defend the rights of the river...

The macrocellulose project in Palas de Rei has mobilized a Galician society that demands environmental democracy. The article The Ulla joins the rivers that demand their rights in the face of the threat of Altri was first published in GCiencia.

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20minutos broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Saturday, May 3, 2025.
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