Portugal Loses Leading Lithium Refining Project
Estarreja
Aveiro, Portugal
Latest news and stories from Estarreja.
Aveiro, Portugal
Latest news and stories from Estarreja.
The film by Polish director Robert Kwilman was the big winner of the 30th edition of the Avanca Film Festival. In the documentary category, Mama’s Voice stood out for giving a voice to refugees from the war in Ukraine.
Estarreja, Aveiro, 03 Aug 2026 (Lusa) -- The film “Permit”, by Polish filmmaker Robert Kwilman, was the big winner of the 30th edition of the Avanca Film Festival, which took place in Estarreja, in the Aveiro district, the organization announced today in a statement with the list of winners.
The Mello Group has decided to withdraw from plans to develop a lithium refinery.
The José de Mello group has withdrawn from the industrial project to install a lithium refinery in Estarreja, an investment expected to be around 492 million euros, which had already secured 180 million euros in public funding earlier this year. Salvador de Mello, CEO of the company, announced to Expresso that it was not...
The Prime Minister wants to promote the creation of public-private consortia to compete for European funds that will become available from the end of next year.
Prime Minister Luís Montenegro welcomed the two binding proposals from Air France-KLM and Lufthansa this Thursday for the purchase of 44.5% of the Portuguese airline, highlighting that it is the first time the largest European airlines have shown interest in the Portuguese company and 'it is the first time it indicates a path of maximization...'
Bondalti has taken another step in the decarbonisation of its operations at the Estarreja unit. The chemical company from the José de Mello group, which completed the acquisition of the Spanish giant Ercros this year, has concluded the REPower project, an investment of 76 million euros, which received 32 million in support from the Recovery and Resilience Plan.
Industry. The country's largest chemical group has been investing in decarbonisation
The alert was given at 21:30 to the Estarreja fire department for an industrial fire at a warehouse.
Three men and one woman have been named as formal suspects
The 39-year-old suspect is strongly suspected of committing the crime of forest arson, which occurred on May 14 in Estarreja.
According to the GNR, the fire consumed an area of 1,500 m2 of scrubland
A woman aged 89 appeared before Estarreja Judicial Court yesterday, following her arrest the day before ‘on suspicion of negligent arson’. According to GNR police, the elderly citizen had been The post Wildfires: 89-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of negligent arson appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The PJ clarified that the suspect is strongly suspected of committing the crime of forest fire, which occurred on May 14th in Estarreja.
Fire consumed an area of 1,500 square metres of scrubland.
The driver had a device connected under the steering wheel to bypass fault detection. A litre of this solution can cost up to 2 euros.
In Estarreja, CNN Portugal reporter António José Leite spoke with two Portuguese-Venezuelan women who maintain constant contact with their relatives in Venezuela.
The GNR traffic detachment was deployed and is investigating the circumstances of the accident.
The defendant is currently serving a pre-trial detention order.
The Porto Court of Appeal confirmed the acquittal of Fernando Valente, but did not close the mystery of Mónica Silva's disappearance. On the contrary, some of the most decisive questions of the case remain unanswered.
There will be no appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice. Valente is definitively free.
A truck caught fire around 4:00 am this Monday.
Road traffic in the North/South direction of the A29 motorway near Avanca, Aveiro, resumed on one lane around 08:00 after being closed due to a truck fire, according to civil protection authorities.
19 personnel and eight vehicles were dispatched to the scene of the accident, with no casualties reported.
After being closed until 8:00 am this Monday due to a truck fire, road traffic in the North/South direction of the A29 motorway, near Avanca, has resumed on one lane.
The motorway was closed for over four hours with nearly twenty firefighters supported by eight vehicles battling the blaze.
A truck caught fire around 4:00 am this Monday.
105 items of clothing, 8,710 euros in cash, three prohibited weapons, various electronic devices, and a motor vehicle were also seized.
