Madrid - A Spanish court has prohibited the construction of a ski station partially because global warming would make it economically unviable, media reported Wednesday. The court accepted the arguments of ecologists who opposed the construction of a ski station in the San Glorio mountain pass in northern Leon province for environmental reasons.
The station would have been partly located in a nature park housing a bear population.
The court also justified its decision with the unprecedented argument that global warming would make the ski station economically unviable.
The station would have had 55 kilometres of tracks at altitudes upwards from 1,500 metres.
Amounts of snow have gone down in the location, where the average temperature has risen by nearly one degree Celsius in 50 years.
