29-11-2023, 09:27 PM
Radio Sintonia:
The Cabildo goes to court to stop wind farms that bypass planning in the general interest.
The contentious-administrative measure is adopted after several previous requests to the Government of the Canary Islands without receiving any response
Lola García: "They intend to riddle Fuerteventura under the justification of the general interest, skipping the planning and causing irreversible damage to our island. And we can't allow that."
Wednesday, November 29, 2023.-
The Cabildo of Fuerteventura has initiated the procedure to file contentious-administrative appeals against nine resolutions of the Government of the Canary Islands that authorise energy infrastructures by the exceptional means of general interest. A tool that, according to the island's president, Lola García, "allows companies to freely install wind and photovoltaic farms wherever they please, skipping planning and causing a brutal impact on our territory".
Lola García explains that "as soon as we joined the Cabildo, we reviewed the projects authorized in this way, concluding the reports that there is no justified reason of urgency or exception to apply the route of general interest. Quite the opposite. We see how it is used systematically so that companies skip planning for their own benefit, without respecting the interests of Fuerteventura". "You can't use the justification of the general good to favour multinationals to the detriment of society, and this is what the Government of the Canary Islands is doing right now."
For this reason, "last September we warned the Government of the Canary Islands with a series of prior requirements. They had a month to respond and we have not been listened to, so we went to court to try to stop this outrage. We are not going to stop until the voice of society and the institutions of Fuerteventura is respected," García continues.
Lola García points out that "from the Cabildo of Fuerteventura we are totally in favour of renewable energies. However, we cannot talk about clean energy if it causes serious damage to our territory and our landscape, which is our most precious asset. What we are demanding is that the installations are always made in a way that is compatible with the defense of the island and that our singularities are taken into account."
Likewise, the president of the island and the Minister of Territorial Planning, Nereida Calero, show their concern about the intention of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Energy of the Government of the Canary Islands to continue using the figure of general interest for energy planning on the island. Nereida Calero points out that "we are concerned that in the last meetings we have had with the Minister and the Deputy Minister, they reiterate their commitment to continue using this route. We have asked them for institutional loyalty, to let us organize and do things well, because Fuerteventura is not a laboratory for installing projects in an uncontrolled way and damaging our territory irreversibly. Precisely what they are doing is going against the true general interest," Calero concludes.
The Cabildo goes to court to stop wind farms that bypass planning in the general interest.
The contentious-administrative measure is adopted after several previous requests to the Government of the Canary Islands without receiving any response
Lola García: "They intend to riddle Fuerteventura under the justification of the general interest, skipping the planning and causing irreversible damage to our island. And we can't allow that."
Wednesday, November 29, 2023.-
The Cabildo of Fuerteventura has initiated the procedure to file contentious-administrative appeals against nine resolutions of the Government of the Canary Islands that authorise energy infrastructures by the exceptional means of general interest. A tool that, according to the island's president, Lola García, "allows companies to freely install wind and photovoltaic farms wherever they please, skipping planning and causing a brutal impact on our territory".
Lola García explains that "as soon as we joined the Cabildo, we reviewed the projects authorized in this way, concluding the reports that there is no justified reason of urgency or exception to apply the route of general interest. Quite the opposite. We see how it is used systematically so that companies skip planning for their own benefit, without respecting the interests of Fuerteventura". "You can't use the justification of the general good to favour multinationals to the detriment of society, and this is what the Government of the Canary Islands is doing right now."
For this reason, "last September we warned the Government of the Canary Islands with a series of prior requirements. They had a month to respond and we have not been listened to, so we went to court to try to stop this outrage. We are not going to stop until the voice of society and the institutions of Fuerteventura is respected," García continues.
Lola García points out that "from the Cabildo of Fuerteventura we are totally in favour of renewable energies. However, we cannot talk about clean energy if it causes serious damage to our territory and our landscape, which is our most precious asset. What we are demanding is that the installations are always made in a way that is compatible with the defense of the island and that our singularities are taken into account."
Likewise, the president of the island and the Minister of Territorial Planning, Nereida Calero, show their concern about the intention of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Energy of the Government of the Canary Islands to continue using the figure of general interest for energy planning on the island. Nereida Calero points out that "we are concerned that in the last meetings we have had with the Minister and the Deputy Minister, they reiterate their commitment to continue using this route. We have asked them for institutional loyalty, to let us organize and do things well, because Fuerteventura is not a laboratory for installing projects in an uncontrolled way and damaging our territory irreversibly. Precisely what they are doing is going against the true general interest," Calero concludes.