The San Bartolomé City Council is preparing a file to go to court due to the "problem" of the Montaña Mina wind farm. A "unsustainable and extremely dangerous" situation for citizens that has been "aggravated" by the fall of one of the windmills, which has left several areas of Lanzarote without electricity, and for which the Government of the Canary Islands, which the Council has requested up to "four times", has shown its total inactivity, despite the fact that the facilities are in a state of abandonment that makes urgent action necessary.
The mayor of San Bartolomé, Isidro Pérez, points out that the situation of the park “is generating a serious security problem for the municipality, for which our patience has run out with the fall of one of the windmills.”
This new accident, according to the mayor, “leaves us no choice but to go to court and demand immediate action, since we are talking about the safety of people.” For this reason, he urges the Government of the Canary Islands to execute the "definitive dismantling" of some windmills that, despite the fact that the land is municipal property, “the actions are not the responsibility of San Bartolomé.”
The "seriousness" of this event adds to those that have occurred in recent months in the wind farm, for which the Council has already requested the action of the General Directorate of Industry of the Government of the Canary Islands, the competent body in this matter, up to four times, "without success".
"These requests were made to both the previous and current Canary Islands Executive. The last two, in June 2023, when the engine of one of the windmills exploded, and in November of that same year, with the detachment of the casing of another of the wind structures." In the latter, the Council set a deadline of "one month" to proceed with the start of the administrative process of "closure and dismantling" of the park and the restoration of its surroundings before initiating legal action.
From the San Bartolomé City Council we ask the population to "avoid" the area where the wind farm is located to "facilitate" the work of the emergency services and the technicians who are working to "restore" the electrical service that has been affected by the incident.