The president of Asolan, Susana Pérez, has assured in an interview on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero that they will continue "in the line of challenging" the proposal of the Island Water Council to open a closure file to 48 desalination plants on the island and that "obviously, the establishments individually and also collectively, will have to be seen in Court". In addition, Pérez has described as "false and erroneous" some data collected in the proposal of the manager of the Island Water Council, Erik Martín, for which they have requested to "leave that report on the table to obviously give a hearing process to the establishments and contrast information and documentation".
This document, which was debated this Tuesday in the Council, divides into three blocks the hotels and apartments that would be subject to these closure files. "Regarding the first block, which are establishments that have not requested authorization or license or that have been denied, I tell them flatly that in several establishments that are in that block it is not so", Susana Pérez pointed out in statements this Friday for Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero, stressing that "it is false, erroneous". The president of Asolan has also pointed out that in the 48-hour period they had to analyze the document they detected "that another establishment in the second block, which does have authorization, as I pointed out in the Council, from 2011, and has requested its renewal, should not be in the second block for the purposes of the classification they have made, but in the third block".
"Let's see, indeed, if in the next weeks at least if in the established classification, well, each establishment can be in the place that corresponds to it and from there, without a doubt, if sooner or later it receives a denial of adjudication, well, without a doubt we will go to the Courts", said the president of Asolan.
Likewise, Susana Pérez has denied the president of the Council, Pedro San Ginés, who assured that the document had not changed since its initial approval in December 2016. "It is false, erroneous and a lie what the president pointed out, that it is a document that has not changed", she said, assuring that "therefore, its revision and analysis is required". "It is also false, as stated on the agenda, that he has answered the allegations. They have not been answered, we are precisely waiting", pointed out the president of Asolan.
"They want to correct major errors of the past"
Regarding the Lanzarote Hydraulic Plan, which includes this proposal and which was the reason for this Thursday's meeting of the Council, Susana Pérez has stated that "it is a transcendental document, important for any group, in particular for the industrial one and for any person or group that has submitted allegations".
For this reason, Pérez has pointed out that they regret "obviously the decision-making not only of the president" but also of the manager and the Island Council. "We regret the absolute silence that there has been in any of the points of the reports", she assured, pointing to the fifth, "where it was approved without anyone having looked at it unfortunately, none of the Council, I am sure, because in 48 hours it is impossible", highlighted the president.
"It is tremendous how this policy of this Cabildo is the Venezuelan policy", denounced Susana Pérez, pointing out that "in particular, with the water policy they want to correct major errors of the past". A policy that the president of Asolan has described as "monopolistic". In this sense, she explained that "they sell losses that until 4 or 5 years ago were almost 50%, 18 million losses in black only in water. Average of 18 million euros per year, more than 80 million euros in five years lost", she denounced, asking if "he wants the industrial sector to pay for it".
With this policy, according to Pérez, "the only thing that is going to achieve with that policy is to scare away investments, scare away companies and, far from achieving industrial diversification, because this not only affects the hotel sector", since "most of the industries come from other islands to do business here". For this reason, she has assured that this policy is "lamentable", because these companies "are taking income to other islands and creating employment in other islands".