[Gocamino] Camino situation

[Sil]

Javier Martin from Spain regularly posts news and up-dates on the industrial
developments along the various caminos in Spain on the
pilgrimage-to-santiago.com forum.
He is part of an organisation that acts as a watchdog to preserve 'attacks'
on the caminos.
In 2007 the AGACS (*Advisory Committee of Patrimony of the Xunta of Galicia)
*won a major victory by challenging and halting a huge consortium that had
started destroying the Eucalyptus forrests arounbd Pino and Lavacolla for
development.  Now the consortium has to repair the damage done.  You will
find photos here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=73924&id=605733164&l=808936ab28
Other development plans that will destroy parts of various camino trails
include:

The new motorway Lugo-Santiago that would cross the Camino in 5 places -
including the Montes de Oca.

A new road over the camino routes near Cee, on the Camino to Fisterra.
Yesa, in the Aragones.

Another 15000 new houses between Pamplona and the Alto del Perdon.

On the Camino Catalan, just beside Montserrat.






2009/5/2 Glenn Jilek <guha2005 at hotmail.com>

>
> There was a nice path through the forest from Villafranca Monte de Oca to
> San Juan de Ortega.  A few KM after the monument to the dead of the Civil
> War, I encountered a swath about 12 meters wide cut by heavy road building
> equipment.  All vegetation gone, and since it rained the evening before, it
> was very, very difficult to traverse.  It went on for kilometers...hard to
> estimate when you are slogging through it.  What are they doing there?  They
> really ruined a very peaceful part of the Camino.  If it would have rained
> for a day or more, I really think that area would be impassible.  That would
> put any peregrino in a bad spot of having to backtrack maybe 5km to
> Villafranca.
>
>
>
> Glenn
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