The former vice president of the Cabildo and councilor of the Popular Group, Jacobo Medina, denounced this Monday the loss of funds by the island institution, stating that it has been forced to return the subsidy of 250,000 euros it received to launch the Atmospheric Observatory of Lanzarote and La Graciosa, responsible for evaluating the effects of pollution on citizens and promoting the adoption of protection and conservation measures for species.
“Having to return money is always bad news, but for it to happen in such a difficult economic time as the present is even more serious and worrying because it calls into question the management that the president of the Cabildo is developing as the highest responsible for the government”, says Jacobo Medina.
The popular councilor recalls that the Atmospheric Observatory, together with the Climate Change Observatory, has been one of the great bets of the socialists in defense of environmental protection and in terms of sustainability. “Seeing how it falters and runs the risk of being parked on the sidelines until better luck is, without a doubt, not a good sign”, Medina questions.
"The truth is that after the signing of the agreement between the Cabildo and the CSIC to promote this observatory, the nature of the same was not very clear, given that the Government of the Canary Islands expressed its intention to join the agreement and always spoke of an autonomous scope based on the island", adds the councilor.
Now, he hopes that "the Cabildo will give the appropriate explanations as to why they have let 250,000 euros be lost and what problems have arisen in relation to the initial idea of the atmospheric observatory of Lanzarote and La Graciosa".
