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TS confirms legality of prior authorization to Berkeley concentrate plant
CYL-MINA URANIUM
Salamanca, Dec 11 (EFE).- The Supreme Court has confirmed the legality of the prior authorization to the concentrate plant granted to the Berkeley Mining Spain company and that it plans to locate in the uranium mine scheduled in the municipality of Retortillo (Salamanca). According to a press release sent this Friday by the multinational, the Supreme Court has not admitted to processing the appeal of cassation filed by Forum of Lefts-The Greens and Adeco Ecologists in Action against the order
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12/11/2010 12:45 PM
Salamanca, Dec 11 (EFE).- The Supreme Court has confirmed the legality of the prior authorization to the concentrate plant granted to the Berkeley Mining Company Spain and that it plans to locate in the uranium mine scheduled in the municipality of Retortillo (Salamanca).
According to a press release sent this Friday by the multinational, the Supreme Court has not admitted to processing the cassation appeal filed by Forum of Lefts-The Greens and Adeco Ecologists in Action against the prior authorization of the concentrate plant.
Thus, the Supreme Court has confirmed, in an order signed on December 3, all the extremes of the judgment of the National Court, a step that "confirms the legality of the prior authorization of the mining company, which is already firm," according to Berkeley.
The order points out that the "inadmissibility of the appeal" has been agreed due, among other arguments, to an "insufficient justification of the concurrence of any of the cases that allow assessing the concurrence of an objective cassational interest for the formation of jurisprudence and the advisability of a pronouncement of this Third Chamber of the Supreme Court."
This is the authorization whose renewal has already been endorsed by the favorable report issued by the Nuclear Safety Council last July.
The National Court dismissed, in September 2019, the contentious appeal filed by ecologists against the prior authorization as a radioactive facility granted to Berkeley for its uranium concentrate plant.
"In addition to ruling on the lack of legitimacy of the political party to file this type of appeal, the Court rejected all the reasons, fundamentally of an environmental nature, put forward by ecologists, confirming the legality of the authorization, and stipulated that the arguments alleged were value judgments that did not provide technical justification," the multinational reported.
For Berkeley Minera España, the new order of the Supreme Court "colls with the requests of certain environmental groups and professional associations, even within the CSN itself, in which it is requested that the permits granted be annulled."
In addition, it has been reiterated that the permits have been granted "in accordance with current regulations" and, as he recalled, "each and every one of the judicial proceedings initiated by environmental groups h