The Socialist Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote has denounced that Oswaldo Betancort's Executive (CC) has "left out" the island from an important line of aid from the Government of the Canary Islands to promote renewable energy projects, by not presenting a single initiative to the call.
According to the party, this line was endowed with 102 million euros for the entire archipelago and has allowed financing 277 projects aimed at the implementation of clean energies in anthropized spaces, that is, already transformed by human activity. However, "Lanzarote does not appear among the territories that have been able to benefit from these funds."
Denounces the lack of initiatives
The spokesperson for the Socialist Group, Ariagona González, has regretted the situation and has focused on the lack of initiative of the governing group: “The serious thing is that Lanzarote has not even been in this call. Not a single project has been presented and that, on an island like ours, has no justification.”
González has also highlighted the inconsistency of the model that the current island government is promoting in energy matters: “We are seeing how renewable acceleration zones are being proposed in especially sensitive rural soils, while opportunities like this are being missed, which were precisely designed to act in already transformed spaces and avoid impacts on the territory.”
In this regard, has insisted that the absence of projects is not an isolated event, but rather responds to a lack of planning: “Here there is a fundamental problem: there is no strategy. Neither for ordering the territory nor for taking advantage of public resources that exist to do things well.”
From the PSOE, they have stressed that this type of aid allows for progress in sustainability without compromising the landscape or the territorial balance of the island, in addition to generating economic activity.
“When projects are not presented, what is being done is renouncing a more ordered and more respectful model with Lanzarote,” they have concluded.
Finally, the PSOE of Lanzarote has demanded that the island Government give explanations about the reasons why it has not participated in this call and that it correct "this lack of initiative so as not to leave the island out of future funding lines again."
