The Finance Councilor of San Bartolomé, Antonio Rocío, spoke this Thursday on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero about the situation of the Montaña Mina wind farm, where one of the blades of a windmill fell this past Wednesday.
Antonio Rocío took advantage of his intervention to assure that "there is a serious security problem" in the Montaña Mina wind farm. However, he defended that these mills are not municipal property and that "there is a company that has the obligation to dismantle it because its license no longer allows the extension with the current law."
In this line, the councilor has indicated that it has been required up to three times "in a forceful way" to carry out that dismantling, without success to date. The last request was made in May of this year, after the fall of one of the mills, this incident has not been fully reproduced, but there have been falls of pieces of these mills. "The gravity is obviously still there," he added.
According to his intervention, it is the General Directorate of Industry of the Government of the Canary Islands that should be in charge of dismantling the wind farm, if the company in charge does not do so. "We have required it to be so and the competent one in that case is this Directorate, despite the fact that the land is municipal," he said.
The consistory of San Bartolomé is going to request a meeting with the General Directorate of Industry of the Government of the Canary Islands. "We are going to arrange an imminent meeting and if it is not executed now because the procedure for dismantling that park begins, obviously we are going to go to the Courts for the inaction of the competent administration."
Rocío explained that during the afternoon of this past Wednesday the casing of a blade of the windmills fell. That is why he pointed out that "part fell, it has moved again and it is an important risk, we are aware." Because of this break, the City Council of San Bartolomé fenced the area and is already studying going to the criminal route.
The Finance Councilor of the conejero municipality has explained that "what happened with that mill (in May) can be repeated with the other three" and that, in addition, these wind turbines are not being profitable, because the power is "ridiculous" and they have assured that the impact it produces on the environment is not necessary for a "so low" profitability.
"As a courtesy, we are going to officially communicate it to the Government of the Canary Islands and, immediately, we are going to the Court to alert of the inaction of the Administration. I repeat that we are aware that there is an important risk, very important, since these parks are very dangerous and any misfortune can happen," the councilor has informed.
They no longer take it as an action of protection to the population, but to the firefighters, agents of the Local Police and other Corps and Security Forces of the State that move to the area and to whom "something can happen with the other mill."
