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There is a trash incinerator planned for construction nearby. After concerted opposition, the project languished for a while, but under new administration, the project is gaining traction again, and so there was a march against it in February.

"Clean air to breathe"

"A clean environment: Our right". The other sign makes a reference to the reconstruction of Donostia after it burned in the 1800s, and how it began in Zubieta, the area where the incinerator is planned. Interestingly, local trash management policy has become a proxy battleground for questions about Basque autonomy. The party that is against the incinerator is also independentist, and the atmosphere of the march was more Basque-speaking than the region on the whole.

The march started in one town and marched through the centers of several cities to gather more and more people, and then walk over a mountain to the incinerator construction site. It was held the day after a torrential rainstorm.

"No incinerator"

 

Otsaila

European goldfinch

Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic

Is that guy srs

Some sort of coot hanging out in the drainage pipe

From the Fort of San Marcos, outside Donostia.

An overview of the neighborhoods of Pasaia and Bidebieta, along the port of Donostia. The fort was built in the 1800s.

It is now an historical site with a restaurant.