Press Releases

Press Releases

Press release, May 13th, 2015

To stop the dam? The future of the Tua and Alto Douro Region is debated Saturday at Mirandela here

Press release – January 21st, 2015

Very high-voltage power line handled in court here

Press release – January 6th, 2015

Suspension of the Foz Tua dam is decided Thursday. The rents of €300 million may be cancelled for the energy companies here

Press release, November 26th, 2014

Alto Douro Wine Region wretched open by metallic towers of the size of the Clerics Tower here

Attached: Complaint to UNESCO.

Press release – June 4th, 2014

Foz Tua dam – non-compliance by EDP and the Portuguese State of the Environmental Impact Statement and Unesco requirements here

Press release, May 12th, 2014

EDP wrong numbers here

Press release, May 2nd, 2014

Study on the “ Connection of the Foz Tua Hydroelectric Dam to the National Electricity Transmission Grid of 400 kV” here

Press release, January 23rd, 2014

Meeting at Tua. Wine producers and expropriated landowners here

Press release, December 31st, 2013

The Tua Valley is in mourning. The Lieutenant General of the Portuguese Army Arménio Ramires de Oliveira has deceased. Nevertheless, stands his defence for the Tua Valley here

Press Release, December 4th, 2013

The Campaign “Save the Tua” starts on the December 12th here

Press release, October 10th, 2013

The Platform Save the Tua demands the political groups to stop the construction of the Foz Tua dam here

Attached:

Manifest for the Tua – Signatories here

Press release, October 3rd, 2013

Platform Save the Tua was received by the Portuguese Minister of the Environment, Planning and Energy and the State Secretaries of the Environment and Energy here

Press release, September 26th, 2013

Platform Save the Tua considers the creation of the Nature Park of the Tua Valley to be a fraud here

Press release , September 19th, 2013

The Platform Save the Tua contests the creation of the Nature Park of the Tua Valley here

The mission of Platform Save the Tua is to protect the Tua Valley by raising awareness about the inconsistencies of the Foz Tua dam, which is being constructed in one of the most beautiful rivers in Portugal, with the values abided by Unesco World Heritage nomination of the Alto Douro Wine Region. We demand for this construction to stop immediately before a natural heritage spot of a high ecological, social and economic value and part of our legacy and Portuguese identity and culture suffers irreversible damages.