The LEP - Sí Podemos group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote has denounced the increase of illegal landfills in the transit areas of El Jable and other especially sensitive spaces and has directly held the Cabildo led by Dolores Corujo responsible for the "ecological disaster".
The formation, which more than a year ago presented a motion to increase the number of environmental agents by 10, accuses this "unacceptable outrage" to the dismantling of the environment department of the first island institution by the previous government of Coalición Canaria and the "inability" of the socialists to solve it.
"It is recorded and everyone can see the plenary session in which Dolores Corujo pledged to immediately increase the number of agents, but 13 months later we continue with two agents for Lanzarote and La Graciosa," says Myriam Barros, spokesperson for the group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
The body of Environmental Agents of the Canary Islands was created through the Territorial Law 8/1989, of July 13 and its powers were transferred from the Government of the Canary Islands to the Island Councils in 2002. Its main functions, among others, are to protect, guard and monitor natural spaces, flora, fauna and landscape of the archipelago, as well as inspections and evaluations of ecological or environmental impact and control of waste discharges and pollution of water and atmosphere.
"Without this body it is useless to protect spaces or create environmental regulations, because surveillance will never be effective," continues the councilor, who says that Lanzarote is the island with the fewest environmental agents, both per inhabitant and per square kilometer, "by a wide margin." In this regard, she points out that while in La Palma there is one agent for every 37 square kilometers, in El Hierro one for every 53 and in Tenerife every 63, in Lanzarote there is one agent for every 422 kilometers.
"Currently the Cabildo is processing the selection tests for a list of "reserve of temporary and interim contracts that was initiated by Pedro San Ginés as acting president in June of last year, but the 10 permanent positions promised by the socialist Corujo and that would equalize Lanzarote with the rest of the islands, do not finish arriving", criticizes Podemos. "We hope that in the 2021 budgets these positions will be contemplated or Lanzarote will remain unprotected from the heartless people who want to fill it with rubble and garbage," reflects Myriam Barros.
"It's terrible to take a walk through some areas and see that some unconscious people think that the island is a landfill. I am convinced that few people do these things and that the vast majority of citizens respect the environment, but those few are doing a lot of damage to the environment and the landscape," adds Barros, who believes that "the only possible solution is to increase the number of agents so that economic sanctions deter these ecological criminals."
