The seaweed biofuel project in Porto Santo has been deemed a failure by the President of the Madeira Electricity Company (EEM), Francisco Taboada.
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The Regional Secretary for Agriculture and Rural Development reacted today to the PAN's complaints of bee poisoning in Funchal, justifying what it says is an "exceptional situation" and repudiating "vehemently the ill-informed use and radicalisation of this situation made by the PAN Madeira."
Earlier today, the President of EEM confirmed that there is a group of national businessmen interested in visiting the seaweed factory in Porto Santo, but says it is too early to discuss the matter in detail.
Sixty kilos of honey has been produced by the fifteen bee hives, which were installed in the Ecological Park, at the end of 2021, in a partnership between the Funchal City Council and the Madeira and Porto Santo Beekeepers Association - AAMPS.
The PSD Parliamentary Group intends to reconcile the growing demand for hiking with environmental sustainability, with the presentation of legislation that defines a new legal regime for pedestrian routes in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, involving new entities in the creation of recommended routes.
The engineering and biotechnology company 'Buggypower - Gestão e Produção de Biomassa, Lda (BGP),' will develop a new project worth 2 million euros in their microalgae production unit based in Penedo do Sono, Porto Santo.
The National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estatística INE), announced today that the year-on-year rate of change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased to 7.2% in April, compared to 5.3% in March, the highest value since March 1993.
The Pedregal hydraulic tunnel, between Campanário and Serra de Água, will be completed in the summer of 2023, confirmed the Regional Secretary for the Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change, Susana Prada today during her visit to the reconstruction works of a section of Levada do Norte, affected by a landslide last March.
Tomorrow, the Funchal City Council(CMF) will sign new agreements with traders for nine new commercial spaces at the Mercado dos Lavradores (Funchal Farmer's Market).
The PP – Associação Observatório das Paisagens e Pannormas do Arquipélago da Madeira, is dedicated to the regions panoramic landscape conservation, and as such, will be hosting a public/regional media presentation on Wednesday the 23rd of February at 4 pm, at the Cais da Ponta do Sol (Sol Poente Restaurant).
The Mayor of Ponta do Sol today unanimously approved the decision to create a medicinal cannabis plantation in the municipality.
Rum da Madeira was recently highlighted at the 22nd edition of the Fair “Encontro com Vinhos,” in Lisbon, which took place last weekend, at the Lisbon Congress Centre, in Junqueira.
The President of the Regional Government announced this morning that, next year, he will open the Sidraria of São Roque do Faial, and after that, another one in Prazeres.
The new Mayor of Funchal, Pedro Calado, was officially sworn in at 17:30 this evening.