Overview
- Hundreds of people took part in the annual anti-cellulose mobilization in Pontevedra on Sunday, departing from and returning to the Alameda in a city-centre demonstration.
- Organizers steered the march to Altri’s local headquarters to demand a definitive halt to the proposed Palas de Rei pulp plant after the Xunta of Galicia agreed to archive the project’s administrative file.
- Altri has submitted alegaciones, or formal appeals, so campaigners and local leaders warn the archive does not guarantee the project is dead and say pressure must continue through protests and legal actions.
- The march was backed by major Galician environmental groups and featured a delegation from Ulloa Viva and speeches from APDR leaders and Mayor Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores, who pledged ongoing mobilization and judicial efforts against Ence and new pulp projects.
- The protest builds on decades of local resistance to pulp mills focused on river and ría pollution, loss of quality of life and eucalyptus expansion, and it signals that activists will pair street mobilization with court challenges as the administrative process continues.