Today the newspaper EL PUNT published that 12,000 dwellings have been soundproofed in the surroundings of the Madrid-Barajas airport, while no soundproofing has been carried out in the populated areas near El Prat airport.

This news made the journalists from the Catalan television channel TV3 want to find out why. This video –which was broadcasted today in the TV3 news program– shows the answer given by AVV Gavà Mar’s president, Eli:

- Video of the TV3 News Program (September 14th, 2006)

Santi, a neighbor from Castelldefels who takes part in our forum, has drawn up an INFORMATION FLYER about the danger of INDEPENDENT RUNWAYS.

This flyer has been drawn up with the assistance of some other neighbors from Castelldefels in the VILAWEB forum and will soon be delivered door-to-door to all the neighbors of Castelldefels.

The information it contains is 100% applicable to Castelldefels as well as to Gavà Mar and it wishes to reflect, from an independent point of view, the future ahead of us if the City Councils of El Prat, Gavà and Castelldefels do not work together in order to achieve the preservation of SEGREGATED RUNWAYS.

Being that the answers from the ‘Consellers’ of the ‘Generalitat’, Francesc Baltasar (Environment) and Joaquim Nadal (Public Works) are completely evasive and noncommittal, we can only stress that AENA admits its failure to comply with the rules and that the ‘Generalitat’ asked them for reports.

We will have to inquire again about this subject at a later date in order to find out what these reports explain and what the ‘Generalitat’ is going to do about it: