The failure of the refueling system at Lisbon airport last Wednesday had knock-on effects at 39 airports and left 50,000 thousands passengers stranded.
The hardest hit were Madrid-Barajas, Brussels, Amsterdam Schiphol, Paris-Orly and Barcelona-El Prat after the Lisbon fuel system failed. This may be the responsibility of Grupo Operacional de Combustíveis run by Petrogal - a full inquiry is underway.
The new sewage treatment plant being built in Companhiera, on the west side of the EN125 road bridge over the Arade river near Portimão, will be ready for action next March after an investment of €11 million by the regional water company.
The Secretary of State for the Environment and the head of Águas do Algarve have visited the site which will have a capacity to treat the sewage output of 140,000 inhabitants and eradicate the obnoxious smell that has welcomed road and river users for years and has made life in the village of Companheira a daily and unhealthy burden.
The Monte Rei Golf & Country Club, Vila Real de Santo António, has won the title of Best Portuguese Golf Club of 2017, adding to an impressive list of recent awards.
The latest accolade was from golfers from across Europe who voted on the Leadingcourses.com website and gave the course a score of 9.15 out of a possible 10.
In a vote of ‘no confidence’ in Portugal’s French-owned airports operator ANA, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said that the management of the new Montijo airport “needs competition.”
"Real competition will be good for the consumer," said O’Leary, adding that thanks to its monopoly position, ANA is postponing the opening of Montijo as a complementary one to Lisbon airport.
Loulé council is shelling out over €1 million on building a new station for the local GNR in Quarteira.
Local ratepayers will be funding a €1,135,220 spend, the value of the tender published by the local authority in Diário da República.
The Portuguese Government would like to see Spain abandon nuclear power. However, the Minister of Foreign Affairs admits that Spain’s "energy transition" is the responsibility of the Spanish Government and that Portugal is powerless to intervene.
Augusto Santos Silva stated to parliament that the Portuguese State cannot interfere in Spain's decision to close or maintain the Almaraz nuclear power plant, despite the fact that Portugal already has and has every right so to do under existing Europen legislation. It is not clear why the minister dismissed a swathe of EU cross-border legistlation in this manner but the options of stupidity and guile can not be ruled out at this stage.
The problem with relying on the State docks authority, Docapesca, is that it's management says it will do things - but then doesn’t do them.
Faro mayor, Rogério Bacalhau, is at his wit’s end over the failure of Docapsca to carry out urgent repairs to the harbour walls before the surrounding street area collapses into the void being created below the pavement.
The government is to change the archaic laws covering the use of video surveillance so that law enforcement can use equipment to fight crime and use recordings as evidence.
Isabel Oneto, Deputy Secretary of State and Home Affairs, announced today that "We are working on the amendment of the law of video surveillance, precisely in order to allow security forces and services to have access to video surveillance in a broader way and will change the law that regulates video surveillance to increase the access of security forces to this means of crime prevention.”
