Fair enough?! Fair enough would be making that decision 18...

Fair enough?! Fair enough would be making that decision 18 months ago. Not screwing the company around for years with unclear, disorganised & misleading approvals process.

Compared to other mining activites underground mining with above ground salt storage is well in the low risk. Miles less risky & miles less environmental damage than tailings dams, acid heavy processes, evaporation ponds, open cut pits, low grade deposits with huuuge volume of solid tailings.

If Spain can't find a reasonable balance, then their economic woes will continue in perpetuity. If this project was in Australia, USA, Canada or Brazil where governments & the people still care about the environment it would have been approved already. With an EIS, regulatory checks, environmental management & remediation plans in place. Those countries value economic development, social development, food security as well as the environment.

Spain seems to be dis-organised, contradictory and difficult. Hardly a low geopolitical risk. Sorry Spain but as an investor and an engineer I will avoid funding, working on and being involved with Spanish projects. I can go elsewhere for balanced, profitable and responsible projects.