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Dear friends of GOB,
As the recently appointed President of GOB Menorca, I would like to thank you for the support you give to our organization. Continue reading Letter to GOB members, volunteers and partners
Category Archives: News
Sunday 14 January, excursion by foot to Torre d’en Galmés
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This Sunday will be the start of the talayotic excursions of 2018 organised by the Consell Insular with GOB uniting the discovery of places on the island with scientific information on the talayotic world. Continue reading Sunday 14 January, excursion by foot to Torre d’en Galmés
Carlos Coll, new President of the ever growing GOB Menorca
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Carlos Coll succeeds Jaume Obrador as the President of GOB Menorca. Carlos Coll has been a member of the Board of Directors for many years and for some time has been coordinator of the association’s volunteers. Continue reading Carlos Coll, new President of the ever growing GOB Menorca
Petition for allowing checks at the Central Electricity Power Station of Menorca
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GOB has sent a written request to the Balearic Government asking that a series of records made by the Central Electricity Power Station in Mahon is checked. The association has had access to documentation which has worrying information. Continue reading Petition for allowing checks at the Central Electricity Power Station of Menorca
Give presents of Menorcan fruit trees
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Es Viver, the garden centre of GOB, now has local variety fruit trees for sale. Christmas is a good time to give fruit trees and indigenous plants for our Mediterranean gardens, requiring little maintenance with respect for the environment. Continue reading Give presents of Menorcan fruit trees
Restore the potential of the Albufera des Grau
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Sending purified water to the lagoon, avoiding the use of lead shot, being able to feed carrion birds or leaving a part of the marine area for fishing only with creel, are some of the proposals that GOB has given recently for a Plan to Restore the Use and Management (Pla Rector d’Ús i Gestió (PRUG)) of the Albufera des Grau natural park. It will be a means of processing the management of a better relationship between human activities and a protected area. Continue reading Restore the potential of the Albufera des Grau
Mahon central power station and health
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Reducing pollution emissions is a question of health as well as being a statutory obligation. The news which was published on Monday 13 November warned that the Central Government in Madrid does not accept changing the fuel of the central power station. This requires further explanation. Continue reading Mahon central power station and health
Sunday 19 November, a walk to Calescoves
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The Consell Insular and GOB have organised an excursion on foot for Sunday 19 November. It will go by different paths to Calescoves and area of great landscape beauty, where there is a talayotic necropolis composed of more than ninety caves and underground burial vaults excavated in the cliffs of the cove; a jetty also dating from the prehistoric time; a coastal establishment defined by a prehistoric wall; and a Roman shrine. Continue reading Sunday 19 November, a walk to Calescoves
Demonstrations with results. Demolition of the huge roundabout at l’Argentina
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The intended two level roundabouts between Ferreries and Ciutadella (at Son Sintes and Es Tudons) have been cancelled. And now, the Council for the Environment has ruled that the half constructed bridge at l’Argentina between Mahon and Alaior be demolished. Continue reading Demonstrations with results. Demolition of the huge roundabout at l’Argentina
Reflecting on energy
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It has been sometime since the debate on the evolution of energy began. Everyone declares they are in favour of renewables, but at the moment of making a decision on where and how, there are usually discrepancies. Continue reading Reflecting on energy