Coalición Canaria demands the San Bartolomé City Council to remove all the Montaña Mina wind turbines. The elected nationalist councilor David Rocío accuses the council of "pushing the safety" of its neighbors to the limit, "not only ignoring the warnings that the nationalists have been making since February, but also "ignoring" the reports that determined "their danger".
“Now is when they have called a company to uninstall one of the mills for fear that the wind we have these days will end up tearing off one of the blades, which, by the way, have been destroyed for some time”, explains Rocío.
The nationalist councilor assures that he "does not understand the lack of concern of the acting mayor, Isidro Pérez", and affirms that it is not enough to mark the area and uninstall a single mill, since "all those found in Montaña Mina are the same age and suffer the same abandonment".
“All the wind turbines must be removed immediately without exception, not only for an aesthetic issue, but, above all, for a serious safety problem for operators and hikers”, he emphasizes, and stresses that “it cannot be tolerated that the policy of patching is played”.
According to the nationalist party in the municipality, the Montaña Mina windmills were put into service in 1992 and, therefore, are 31 years old. "Due to their lack of maintenance, they offer a state of complete abandonment."
In 2018, the Ministry of Industry and Energy of the Government of the Canary Islands issued a letter urging that urgent measures be taken to guarantee safety and, a year later, on May 12, 2019, the Mercantile Court No. 1 of Las Palmas declared the conclusion of the competition for wind farms in the Canary Islands.
Two years ago, in 2021, the San Bartolomé City Council announced the removal of these infrastructures and gave a period of three months for the company in charge to proceed with their dismantling.
“But everything remains the same, except that now they claim that they are supposedly going to remove a mill because one of its blades may fly off, although we do not know if they will finally do it and, if they do, how long it will take”, laments David Rocío.