The plenary of the San Bartolomé City Council approved this week in an extraordinary session, at the request of the Coalición Canaria group, which also had the support of all the opposition groups, "to resume the ownership file of the Morros de Güime quarry".
From Coalición Canaria they detail that it is a property of "more than half a million square meters", which the City Council has been claiming since 2013, when the file began to be formed, although in 1997 "there was already a lawsuit between the City Council and the company Lanzagrava for the exploitation of the land".
According to the nationalists, the company "had an initial authorization for some land, but it has extended beyond them". "That the City Council manages to have the municipal ownership of the land recognized is the way to be able to demand the pertinent compensation for the exploitation of the resources for years", they point out from CC.
"There are reports that stipulate the extraction of aggregates by this company at 23 million euros. We have to be responsible, we cannot allow this government group to look the other way instead of claiming an asset that is owned by all our neighbors", said the spokesman for the nationalists, David Rocío.
CC has thus achieved the first of the objectives; "to get the matter out of the drawer and put it back on the list of priorities of the Consistory". The next step, according to the nationalists, "will be to comply with the established period of one month to request a legal report indicating how to proceed".
"We do not know if the solution is to reach an agreement or not with the company, what we do know is that this issue has to continue to advance, it cannot remain sleeping the sleep of the just", insists Rocío, who adds that "we dedicated a lot of effort and time during the previous term so that it is now lost inside a drawer."