The Councilor for the Environment, Geopark and Climate Change of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, spoke on Friday morning on the program Buenos días, Lanzarote of Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero to explain why tons of rofe are being exported from Lanzarote for construction use in other places, while the export of jable from the island is not allowed.
The Environment Area of the Cabildo and the Nature Protection Service (SEPRONA) of the Civil Guard mobilized after learning that 3,000 kilos of rofe had been extracted and transferred to the port of Los Mármoles to take them off the island and trade with them.
According to Martín, "there are quarries authorized by the Mines of Industry of the Government of the Canary Islands on the island for many years and this was the case, of one of the extractions that was being made from an authorized quarry." However, the Environment's doubt was whether that rofe could be exported and should not only be used to build buildings within the island.
"The data we have and the conversations we have had is that it is legal to take it off the island," continued the head of the Biosphere Reserve.
After discovering that this practice is legal, the first island institution has assured that "one of the priority issues" within the plans of the Government group is that "the export of this material, so important and so necessary for the island, be prohibited". "I am one of those who believes that both rofe and jable have to be put on the same side and not allow export," he stressed.
Martín added that Lanzarote needs that rofe to recover its landscapes. "We have to recover our environment, the sands of the island are many peeled and need that contribution of material to continue having that unique landscape that we have," he stressed.
