the arrival of a new governing team to Pontevedra's City Council, when APDR began to have institutional support and therefore was able to achieve specific goals. The APDR critically backed the local government of Pontevedra, forming an environmental lobby, that eventually forced the relocation of the timbering company TAFISA. In the 2001-2002 period, the APDR also gained the support of the Galician government on the grounds of health and environmental concerts to speed up the process. The local government of Pontevedra, in association with the Galician government and APDR, negotiated the eventual closure of the ENCE-ELNOSA complex. However, the agreed date of year 2018 was considered as "unacceptable" by the APDR, which is now trying to force an earlier closure of the company. Acknowledgements In 2002 the APDR received the Cidade de Pontevedra prize, awarded by the Pontevedra City Council. In 2005 it received the Vidal Bolaño prize, awarded by the cultural organisation Redes Escarlata. See also Environmentalism Water pollution Paper pollution Pontevedra Ria Rias Baixas Notes External links Asociación Pola Defensa da Ría - official website (in Galician) Federación Ecoloxista Galega - official website (in Galician) Nunca Mais - official website (in Galician) ENCE - corporate site of the ENCE group (in Spanish and English) Quimigal - corporate site of the parent company of ELNOSA (in Portuguese and English) Documentary on the ENCE-ELNOSA polemic - broadcast by Argentinian television. Running time 5:59 (in Spanish) Documentary on the history of the ENCE-ELNOSA and the health concerns - broadcast by Pluralia TV. Running time 5:04 (in Galician and Spanish) Concello de Pontevedra - official site of the local government of Pontevedra (in Galician, Spanish, and with summarised versions in English and French) References Centro de Estudios y Ordenación del Territorio y Medio Ambiente [ed.] (1982): Estudio de la contaminación de la Ría de Pontevedra: Programa Escorp (three volumes). Deputación Provincial, Pontevedra Cobelo-Garcia, A. and Prego R. (2003): "Land inputs, behaviour and contamination levels of copper in a ria estuary (NW Spain)", in Marine environmental research, vol. 56, no. 3, p. 403-422. Elsevier, Oxford, ISSN 0141-1136 Combarro Combarro, M. P. (1981): Indicadores bacteriológicos de contaminación fecal en la ría de Pontevedra. Memoria de Licenciatura, Faculdade de Bioloxía-Departamento de Microbioloxía e Parasitoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela López Rodríguez, M. (1994): Influencia de vertidos industriales en la variabilidad cualitativa y cuantitativa de la flora y vegetación bentónica de la ría de Pontevedra. Servicio