15-06-2022, 10:05 PM
I'm sure I had made a post about the proposal in the last month but I can't find it anywhere - if someone else comes across it please let me know and it'll combine the threads.
Radio Sintonia:
The fishermen's guilds of the Canary Islands, against the installation of the offshore wind farm in Jandía.
The Regional Federation of Fishermen's Guilds of the Canary Islands has expressed, through a press release sent to Radio Sintonía, its total opposition to the forecasts of the Government of the Canary Islands to install an offshore wind farm in the Peninsula of Jandía, "since it would mean the death of the sector on the island and a serious damage to the fleet of other islands, in addition to serious environmental damage to the area."
As the Federation has learned, the draft Law on Climate Change and Energy Transition of the Regional Executive and, specifically, the Energy Transition Plan, would contemplate the area of the Jandía Peninsula as one of the susceptible to the installation of this type of parks, something that, according to the representative and spokesman of the Federation, David Pavón, clashes with what is contained in the Maritime Space Management Plan of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Climate Change, which contemplates as a Special Conservation Area (ZEC) the place indicated by the document of the autonomous executive.
"Just that area has an exceptional ecological, environmental and fishing value that would be totally ruined with the installation of an offshore wind farm," he explains. "The fishing practiced there is artisanal and absolutely sustainable, since it is an authentic underwater orchard with incalculable value, to which it is added that it is the most important fishing area for the vessels of the island, which would be seriously affected and doomed to leave the activity. "
From the Federation, they assure that they do not oppose the installation of a marine park on the island, "what we request from the Government of the Canary Islands is that, before making a decision, they meet with the Fishermen's Guild of Morro Jable to find the best place to carry out an installation of these characteristics".
In total, an offshore wind farm in the Jandía Peninsula would affect more than 80 ships that would have to be forced to leave their activity, since, as they explain, the wind turbines generate an electromagnetic field that would force them to distance themselves two miles, to which is added the noise and movement of the blades that could affect one of the most important shearwater colonies in the Canary Islands, a species protected by its fragility.
The Federation states that it will work to preserve a place and avoid the environmental and economic damage that can be done to the island of Fuerteventura if the plan contemplated in the document that is now in process in the Parliament of the Canary Islands is carried out.
Radio Sintonia:
The fishermen's guilds of the Canary Islands, against the installation of the offshore wind farm in Jandía.
The Regional Federation of Fishermen's Guilds of the Canary Islands has expressed, through a press release sent to Radio Sintonía, its total opposition to the forecasts of the Government of the Canary Islands to install an offshore wind farm in the Peninsula of Jandía, "since it would mean the death of the sector on the island and a serious damage to the fleet of other islands, in addition to serious environmental damage to the area."
As the Federation has learned, the draft Law on Climate Change and Energy Transition of the Regional Executive and, specifically, the Energy Transition Plan, would contemplate the area of the Jandía Peninsula as one of the susceptible to the installation of this type of parks, something that, according to the representative and spokesman of the Federation, David Pavón, clashes with what is contained in the Maritime Space Management Plan of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Climate Change, which contemplates as a Special Conservation Area (ZEC) the place indicated by the document of the autonomous executive.
"Just that area has an exceptional ecological, environmental and fishing value that would be totally ruined with the installation of an offshore wind farm," he explains. "The fishing practiced there is artisanal and absolutely sustainable, since it is an authentic underwater orchard with incalculable value, to which it is added that it is the most important fishing area for the vessels of the island, which would be seriously affected and doomed to leave the activity. "
From the Federation, they assure that they do not oppose the installation of a marine park on the island, "what we request from the Government of the Canary Islands is that, before making a decision, they meet with the Fishermen's Guild of Morro Jable to find the best place to carry out an installation of these characteristics".
In total, an offshore wind farm in the Jandía Peninsula would affect more than 80 ships that would have to be forced to leave their activity, since, as they explain, the wind turbines generate an electromagnetic field that would force them to distance themselves two miles, to which is added the noise and movement of the blades that could affect one of the most important shearwater colonies in the Canary Islands, a species protected by its fragility.
The Federation states that it will work to preserve a place and avoid the environmental and economic damage that can be done to the island of Fuerteventura if the plan contemplated in the document that is now in process in the Parliament of the Canary Islands is carried out.