More than fifty new reports and documents, "of which there was no record until now, and therefore had not been submitted to consultation or informative exhibition", have "appeared" this Wednesday in the file of the Environmental Impact Study of oil explorations in the Canary Islands.
This was denounced by the Cabildo of Fuerteventura, which explains that the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, headed by José Manuel Soria, has informed them in writing this morning that during the next 15 days they will be able to consult this documentation, "previously unknown".
"This communication recognizes that we were right when we denounced that the file that was submitted to public information in August 2013 was missing documentation, and that new documents were constantly being incorporated by Repsol and the Ministry without us having access to them", recalled the president of the Cabildo, Mario Cabrera.
In addition, they denounce that the gravity goes "even further". "With this new communication, the Ministry of Industry prevents the 11,000 people who alleged in August about the Environmental Impact Study from now consulting these documents and presenting their allegations to them. And in general, it also prevents these same allegations to any other person or entity that, even if they have not alleged before, wants to do so now", recalled Mario Cabrera.
"Why are you afraid of people reading and giving their opinion?"
The president of the Cabildo demanded "democracy" in the process of exposing the documentation of the Environmental Impact Study, so that "any interested person, scientific teams, social groups and institutions that wish to do so can consult the documents and allege what they consider. Why are you afraid of people reading and giving their opinion on the documentation?"
The Cabildo of Fuerteventura had already formally requested the Ministry of Industry to suspend the entire process and resubmit all the new documentation incorporated in these months to public information for allegations.
Among the documentation presented this Wednesday is, according to the Cabildo majorero, "a new study in case of catastrophic spill of 3,000 barrels of oil per day, a health impact study, projects of the planned oil wells, cartography of the seabed and an environmental management plan".
Therefore, the Corporation insists that "a new consultation restricted to public administrations and interested parties is not appropriate, but a new period of public information open to the general public".
