The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, has managed to get the Port Authority of Las Palmas to “leave on the table” the concession for a plot in Puerto de Naos, where a company has submitted a request to install a service station.
The board of the Port Authority of Las Palmas had planned, at its meeting this Thursday, to adopt an agreement on the request of the company Lanzafuel, SL to install a service station on land owned by the Port Authority of Las Palmas, which was reclaimed from the sea in the 1960s of the last century.
On that plot of 1652.30 m2, the Arrecife City Council and the Chamber of Commerce plan to allocate it to the construction of an educational building within the project to relaunch the area for educational purposes linked to the 'blue economy', with the current Instituto Politécnico Marítimo Pesquero de Canarias (known as Escuela de Pesca) as its epicenter.
During the council session, both the intervention of the mayor of Arrecife, as well as the president of the Chamber of Commerce, José Valle, advocated for the Ministry of the Interior to be urged to issue a binding report on the possible consequences in terms of security of opening a gas station a few meters from the Arrecife Police Station. The Port Authority of Las Palmas has officially processed the request for the concession on that plot of its ownership.
To that concession, Mayor Yonathan de León has transferred the plenary agreement where the APLP is requested to allocate the land to an educational center, and not approve that concession for a gas station.
Yonathan de León and José Valle have stressed that the Port Authority of Las Palmas must wait for the communication from the Ministry of the Interior, to which all the members of the Council have agreed, and have agreed to leave this decision on the table for the award of the concession requested by Lanzafuel, S.L.
The Arrecife City Council, together with the business sector, supports that the entire area adjacent to Puerto de Naos has, in addition to an educational use, a new approach for emerging companies working in the sector known as 'blue economy'.
Within this line, would go the liquid hydrogen plant proposed by Mayor Yonathan de León to be studied by the Port Authority of Las Palmas for the port of Arrecife, which is having a great boom in cruise tourism. That idea of the mayor was presented to the members of the Board of the Port Authority in a recent meeting held in the capital of Lanzarote.
