The president of the National Civil Protection Authority (ANPC) said there will be 50 machines, a mixture of aircraft and helicopters, available this summer to fight fires in Portugal.
A 60-year-old dog breeder, who also is a farmer and a manager of an agricultural company, has received the heaviest sentence yet under Portugal’s 2014 pet protection laws.
Lagos Council is launching a €1.3 million project to builkd a 1.85 metre wide pedestrian walk way at the side of the EM537 between Quatro Estradas on the EN125 and Praia da Luz.
The work is expected to start in the last quarter of 2018 and aims to sort out ‘existing anomalies’ in the pavement, as well as building proper drainage and installing low-energy lighting.
It is fair to conclude that Portugal’s privatised Post Office, CTT, is performing poorly but that there are signs of life.
Portugal’s environmental association, Zero, is aghast at the government’s plan to dump sludge, to be dredged from the polluted river bed of the Tagus, onto registered ecological land in a protected area.
The World Health Organisation’s danger limit of 10 micrograms of particles per cubic meter of air has been exceeded in around fifteen of the 60 council locations that have been tested in Portugal.
Portimão council is to resolve the planning issues surrounding the land at Barranco do Rodrigo, where a sports complex was to be built.
With many boats already on the high seas, heading for traditional sardine fishing grounds, the government shocked an already fragile industry by announcing an extension to the current ban that was meant to end at midnight on Tuesday.
