About
01’ Platform Save the Tua
The Platform Save the Tua was founded the 31 May 2013. Its mission is to protect the Tua Valley, a region where flows one of the most beautiful rivers in Portugal, which is shaped by a rare landscape. The Platform Save the Tua is committed in raising public awareness and policy makers awareness about the incompatibility of the Foz Tua dam with the values abided by Unesco World Heritage nomination of the Alto Douro Wine Region. To succeed in this mission, the Plataforma is leading several initiatives, namely legal actions and activities promoting the public opinion conscientiousness to stop the construction of the Foz Tua dam.
The Platform Save the Tua is an association for the protection of the environment composed by local and ecological organizations and a wine company. The Social Body is composed by the following:
Body Members
GEOTA Grupo de Estudos de Ordenamento do Território e Ambiente (check the website here);
LPN – Liga para a Protecção da Natureza (check the website here);
SPEA – Sociedade Portuguesa para o estudo das Aves (check the website here);
QUERCUS – Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza (check the website here);
COAGRET – Coordenadora de Afectados pelas Grandes Barragens e Transvases (check the website here);
AAVT – Associação dos Amigos do Vale do Tua (check the website here);
ALDEIA – Acção, Liberdade, Desenvolvimento, Educação, Investigação, Ambiente (check the website here);
FAPAS – Fundo para a Protecção dos Animais Selvagens (check the website here);
GAIA – Grupo de Acção e Intervenção Ambiental (check the website here);
Esporão (Quinta dos Murças) (check the website here).
Direction Board
President: Geota – Grupo de Estudos de Ordenamento do Território e Ambiente
Vice-President: LPN – Liga para a Proteção da Natureza
Treasurer: SPEA – Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves
Member of board: QUERCUS – Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza
Member of board: COAGRET – Coordenadora de Afectados pelas Grandes Barragens e Tranvases
Audit Board
President: FAPAS – Fundo para a Protecção dos Animais Selvagens
Vice-President: GAIA – Grupo de Acção e Intervenção Ambiental
Secretary: Quinta dos Murças
Board of the General Assembly
President: AAVT – Associação dos Amigos do Vale do TUA
Vice-President: ALDEIA – Acção, Liberdade, Desenvolvimento, Educação, Investigação, Ambiente
Statutes of the Platform Save the Tua here.
Activity report and Statement of accounts 2014 here.
Activity report and Statement of accounts2013 here.
Operational plan 2015 here.
Operational plan 2014 here.
02’ The Tua Valley vs. the Foz Tua dam
We demand the construction works to stop immediately, before irreversible damages are committed. Our purpose is the safeguarding and valorisation of this natural heritage of outstanding value on a ecological, social and economic level, part of the our legacy and the Portuguese identity and culture, and an essential tool for the future development of the Tua Valley.
There are some projects that are reasonable, bringing added-value to a country. Others, like the Foz Tua dam are impoverishing it. It is unacceptable to balance over a rare heritage of outstanding beauty and value in exchange of some scarce benefits this project brings. It is our own responsibility to ensure the future generations to have the chance to make the best of the Tua Valley and we must prevent their future from being compromised by irreversible decisions that are taking place.
LET’S SAVE THE TUA!
03’ By several actions being led, the Platform Save the Tua demands:
– To stop immediately the construction works of the Foz Tua dam;
-To revoke the Ordinance n. 251/2012 that provides the subsidies of €300 million to the electric companies to build new dams;
– Reopening of the proceedings for the classification of the Tua Railway Line as National Monument.
To stop the construction of the dam now is, at least, 20 times cheaper than to keep it ongoing and pay subsequently the costs of an expensive electricity from a useless project that affects the public interest.