The Third Chamber of the administrative court of the Supreme Court has set June 10 for the vote and ruling on the appeal filed by the Cabildo of Fuerteventura against the authorizations of the Government of Spain to the multinationals Repsol, RWE and Woodside to carry out oil drilling off the coasts of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.
The president of the Cabildo of Fuerteventura, Mario Cabrera, has thanked "the effort" and the contributions of individuals, social groups and institutions from all the islands to prepare the appeal. "Never before have so many scientific, social and institutional arguments been put forward to stop this undemocratic and aggressive project against nature, our way of life and the intelligence of citizens," he said.
Mario Cabrera pointed out that, "respecting judicial independence to the maximum", "they have to know that the majority of the citizens of the Canary Islands, but also those of the rest of the autonomous communities where they want to develop these activities, and in general the scientific community and the European institutions, will be very attentive to what is decided". "We trust in Justice to restore democratic coherence. A government that prides itself on being democratic has to pay more attention to what citizens think about their way of life than to what a multinational wants for its balance sheet," the president defended.
"Privileged" information from Repsol
Mario Cabrera is also struck by the information collected this Thursday in the press "from the representation of Repsol", where it is stated that in May the result of the Environmental Assessment will already be known, the processing of which is carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment (MAGRAMA). "Repsol must have some kind of privileged information from within the Ministry, because the processing of the file has been suspended for a month and at least publicly there is no date to resume it," Cabrera questioned.
And in the face of Repsol's announcement that "it has already spent 30 million euros" on the Canary Islands project, the president of the Cabildo believes that "what it should say is where it is paying taxes for those 30 million euros". "It is the same thing we have been asking since 2004. How much did they sell 50 percent of the project to RWA and Woodside for then? and where and how much tax did they pay for that sale of shares in the Canary Islands project?", they have asked from the Cabildo of Fuerteventura.
