Following the news that seven employees of a company in Durango are on sick leave due to arsenic contamination, the Herriaren Eskubidea group has expressed its concern. The independent group states that the company has been recording high concentrations of arsenic for some time, exceeding the legally established limit by five times.
The group believes this situation could affect the air quality in the municipality and has criticized EAJ and PSE-EE, who form the governing team, for stating that the air quality is good. Herriaren Eskubidea has rejected this assertion, reminding that Durango's air quality stations do not measure arsenic or lead.
“"The company has been recording arsenic concentrations for some time, which are five times the limit established by law."
The independent group has been requesting the installation of an air quality monitoring network in Durango for many years. Furthermore, in 2018, they brought the need to create citizen protection protocols to the Basque Parliament. Although the Parliament approved them, with EAJ and PSE-EE voting against, almost a decade later, the Department of Environment and the Department of Health of the Basque Government have still not complied with the parliamentary mandate.
