Property owners and developers wants EUR 30 million from Greenpeace!!!
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12 June 2008  

Real estate developers and property owners in La Manga del Mar Menor are threatening to take Greenpeace to court because of predictions of global warming effects to the area, that according to the group have made property value fall drastically in the area. 

So if Greenpeace does not agree to settle out of court coughing up a figure of EUR 30 million in damages, the plaintiffs will take their case before a judge! 

La Manga was featured in a photo book published by Greenpeace to create awareness of the global warming and climate changes, showing digitally modified photos of a La Mange more or less submerged in water only showing tops of the highest buildings. 

Greenpeace defends themselves by stating that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded that due to global warming this scenario of raised sea levels in the years to come could very well be possible. 

"We want to create alarm and a call to action," Juan López de Uralde, Greenpeace's director in Spain, said when the book was published. 

The La Manga plaintiffs state that their property value has fallen by at least 50% after the book was published and they don't see any sufficient evidence to support such a drastic change in their area, neither do they understand the reason for why Greenpeace feel compelled to publish something that completely devaluated everything in this area. According to sources, nobody wants to invest, buy or develop in this area after the book was released. 

Greenpeace on the other hand has no intension of settling out of court, saying that they have no interest of paying the losses of the speculators in the real estate market, investing in a time and in an area that already has seen a decrease in value in the recent years. 

Other sources are sure that there are no case whatsoever for the La Manga property owners. It’s a known fact to everyone that sea levels are rising, that the polar bears are drowning because of the lack of ice in the arctic and Antarctic areas. Vast amounts of evidence is present to support the theories of the book published by Greenpeace.

 

By N.K.H.

 

Last changed: Jun 16 2008 at 3:43 PM

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