A delegation from Repsol visited the Arrecife City Council this Thursday to try to convey to the Consistory the advantages that it believes the installation of the logistics base for the surveys in the port of Los Mármoles would have for the island. The meeting was attended by the mayor, Manuel Fajardo Feo, and representatives of all political parties except the PSOE, which did not want to be present at this meeting.
"They know every last empty warehouse that there is," one of those present at that meeting, AC councilor Domingo García, explained to La Voz, referring to the details that have been given to them from the company. According to García, Repsol maintains that in Los Mármoles there is space to house that logistics base, which would occupy about 17,000 meters and would require an investment "of about 50 million euros".
"What surprised me is the times they are talking about. They say that this has to be defined in January, because in April the surveys begin and in January they want to start building the logistics base," explained the councilor.
Warehouse, offices and "about 60 employees"
According to García, at the meeting they explained that this logistics base will mainly fulfill a storage and office function. "There would be a ship that would anchor there and would be in charge of transferring the materials," he explained. Regarding the alleged jobs that would be created, the company has specified that if the logistics base were installed here, "about 60 people" would work there.
In addition, according to what the AC councilor has conveyed, the Repsol representatives have indicated that if they propose to install this logistics base in Lanzarote it is "because it is more operational for them." "They say that they are going to do the tastings about 34 miles north of Lanzarote and that the closest point is this one. They say that it is not an offer out of courtesy, but because logically it is more profitable to do it here."
As for the helicopter base, which the president of Repsol also spoke about at the press conference he offered last week in Gran Canaria, Domingo García affirms that, from what they have been told at the meeting, that "they would have to do it compulsorily in Lanzarote". "They say that it is certain that it has to be here, at the airport."
Another meeting with the CEL
Repsol representatives also met this Wednesday with representatives of the Lanzarote Confederation of Entrepreneurs, who invited the company to explain their project.
The president of the CEL, Juan de León, has positively valued this meeting, although he did not want to give many details, waiting to transfer the content of the meeting to the rest of the representatives of the Confederation of Entrepreneurs.