As you know, we are in the middle of the fire season and the Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change (SRAAC) has announced millions of euros in investments in the wake of the major fires that ravaged the island of Madeira, making countries that suffer the most from this scourge of fires envious, such as Australia, Canada and others.
It turns out that this investment, like so many others, only served to line the pockets of some of the Regional Government’s cronies (even more), because as the news report says, a tank was built with a water storage capacity of thousands of liters. One of many.
As it turns out, that same tank, which was supposed to be capable of storing water, is now nothing more than an amalgam of sheet metal, full of dirt and with no capacity whatsoever to store the liquid that is so precious in fighting fires. Just today, someone sent me a photograph of this tank, which was just another failed project.
The weather is still hot, everything is getting drier and drier, and there’s been a fire on the way to Pico do Areeiro with a car. The road you take also leads back, there’s no other way. The parking lots are getting bigger and bigger in the area, and if one car catches fire and moves on to another, and another, it has the potential to be a major disaster.
I don’t want to go any further because it might give you ideas, but I want to make it clear that the same superb IT at Sesaram is in the “security” at Pico do Areeiro… You don’t need hackers, you just need bad luck or carelessness. The area needs an emergency and contingency plan.
Submitted by Anonymous Whistleblower Thursday, August 24, 2023 All elements sent by the author.
