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Let's change Murcia will ask the City Council to contract 100% energy from renewable sources (19/02/2017)

Let us change Murcia will propose at the plenary session next Thursday that the City Council will hire a power supply certified by the National Energy Commission as 100% from renewable sources to supply municipal property and illuminate the public thoroughfare.

According to Carlos Egio, spokesman for the coordinator of the municipalist formation, "the administration has an obligation to go beyond symbolic gestures in the fight against climate change. The contracting of energy from renewable sources would be a very concrete measure And easy to carry out to, without unduly influencing budgets, take a real step towards environmental sustainability. "

There is scientific consensus on the human impact on global warming, which in our municipality will affect especially with a greater shortage of fresh water and lower productivity in crops, "so it makes no sense that Murcia is, according to the Observatory of Sustainability , The Autonomous Community that has increased its emissions since 1991 and the one that has done the least to avoid it, "added Egio.

Taking into account that, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, energy production is the activity that contributes most to greenhouse gas emissions, contracting with suppliers that certify that they purchase it from 100% renewable sources would be , "A gesture toward citizenship and a pedagogical measure".

The municipal training will request that a feasibility study of the contracting is carried out so that the measure is carried out as the current bids expire, without executing extensions.

Likewise, Cambiemos Murcia will urge the Government Team to include in the specifications of the contracting of electricity supply a clause that prioritizes social economy companies and will call for the launch of awareness campaigns on the importance of reviewing the source Electricity supply in households.

This City Council has the obligation to go beyond the symbolic gesture of passing a motion and putting in place very concrete measures that, without affecting budgets, represent a real step towards environmental sustainability.

Urge the Government Team to progressively contract a 100% energy supply certified from renewable sources, once the current bids have expired and without carrying out extensions.

Source: Cambiemos Murcia

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