Day: January 11, 2015

Still no money for the AVE as government again doesn’t approve it…

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The Cuevas-Pulpí bit of the AVE was going to be contracted out in the last quarter of 2014, according to a promise made by the Minister for Development Ana Pastor during her visit to Almería last year. Well, it wasn’t. The final meeting of the Council of Ministers in 2014 came and went, and the 12.5km stretch of high speed railway wasn’t discussed. Excuses vary, but eventually an official Development statement said that the issue Continue reading Still no money for the AVE as government again doesn’t approve it…→

Wind farms abandoned as province left out of national energy plan

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Plans for windfarms worth an estimated 375 million euros are expected to be abandoned after the new National Energy Plan 2015-2020 confirmed no new national grid infrastructure for Almería province. There had been two major National Grid investments mooted for Almería, a new Vera – Granada high power line and a new substation in Tabernas to connect up renewable energy sources there. Neither project has materialised in the new plan, meaning that any new energy Continue reading Wind farms abandoned as province left out of national energy plan→

New Gin launched from…. Turre!

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Turre is the unlikely birthplace of a new brand of gin, the first and only gin made in the province. “Portomagno Gin” has been developed by local couple Isabel Ruiz and Manuel Crespo, who hit on the recipe after sharing an interest in home brew distillery. They experimented with several rums and wines before deciding to make a cereal gin, and so Portomagno Gin was discovered. Isabel Ruiz, a trained laboratory technician, knows her way Continue reading New Gin launched from…. Turre!→