The nationalist Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote has shown in a press release issued at noon this Tuesday its "absolute rejection" of the installation of 56 floating marine cages intended for fish farming in a protected area of the coast between Arrecife and Tías. Despite this, the Government Group, formed by the Canarian Coalition and the Popular Party, rejected during the plenary session a socialist motion to ask the Government of the Canary Islands to halt its processing.
The spokesperson for CC in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Samuel Martín, recalled the actions carried out in this regard by the Government Group during these nine months of mandate, initiated on July 3 with the celebration of an extraordinary plenary session - the first held by the new corporation - in which it was unanimously agreed to empower the president of the Cabildo to continue with the judicial procedures undertaken against the installation of said cages.
“Next, on July 26, and after gathering all the areas involved, Oswaldo Betancort sent the allegations presented by this government against the resolution authorizing the installation of said cages to the Autonomous Regional Ministry of Agriculture; as happened on December 20 when this presidency presented allegations to the environmental report sent by the Ministry of Ecological Transition”, added Samuel Martín.
In this way, the nationalist spokesperson evidenced during the plenary session that “this government group has not been idle when it comes to formalizing and echoing the resounding opposition of Lanzarote and La Graciosa to these cages”, while recalling that “it was precisely the autonomous government presided over by the socialist Ángel Víctor Torres who called for a public tender for their installation, something that should never have been done if they really did not want to see marine cages on our coastline.”
Samuel Martín reproached in this context that said autonomous government, presided over by the socialist Ángel Víctor Torres, “ignored the clamor of the Lanzarote and Graciosa society against the installation of these cages in the aforementioned Aquaculture Interest Zone, endorsed through the Institutional Declaration approved by the Cabildo in May 2021.”
In this regard, CC regretted that the PSOE "plays at doing politics with such a sensitive issue for citizens, asking in the plenary for a new institutional declaration against the cages but at the same time rejecting it when CC has proposed to approve it following the procedures established by the Cabildo Regulations and incorporating the new documentation generated after the formation of the new government group."
