The general secretary of the PSOE of the Canary Islands and vice president of the Canarian Government, José Miguel Pérez, pointed out this Saturday in Arrecife, regarding the concession to Repsol to carry out oil prospecting in waters near the Canary Islands that "there is not a single proof that they are beneficial for the general interest". "Public interests are put at risk to prioritize private interests," he said, and assured that "this does not benefit the interest of Spain or the Canary Islands, but of a multinational."
He challenged the Minister of Industry, José Manuel Soria, to show the papers he has in the ministry and to transfer them to public opinion. The general secretary met this morning with the island committee of the PSOE of Lanzarote. Other officials also attended, such as Francisca Luengo, Arcadio Díaz Tejera or Sebastián Franquis. The PSOE will present a motion of rejection to the permits to all the municipalities of the Canary Islands.
Pérez said that he would have liked the council of ministers not to rescue the Repsol file from 2001 but the singular regime of the Canary Islands for renewable energies, which could provide the Archipelago with a decrease in the electricity rate and greater security to the energy system of the islands.
According to Pérez, the approval of this decree places the Government in enormous legal uncertainty and also does not give environmental guarantees, there are no public benefits and it implies institutional disloyalty "that turns its back on the Canary Islands". For her part, Luengo said that this decree "recalls the modus operandi of the PP of the Canary Islands" and referred to the case of Tebeto, which generated compensation for the concessionaires and predicted that this matter may generate millionaire compensation.
Pérez pointed out that the Canarian Government will try to restore legality and the rule of law in the courts and announced that on the 20th the Minister of Industry of the Canarian Government will meet with Minister Soria to convey his opposition to the prospecting.
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