The City Council of Tías has presented this July allegations to the content of the Energy Transition Plan of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands (Ptecan) and its environmental study, submitted to public information, to claim the right of the municipalities and Cabildo of Lanzarote to "decide the energy model they want and agree on how it will be developed", informs the City Council.
From the Consistory they consider that the implementation model proposed by the Ptecan is "clearly tending to maximize land occupation", while criticizing that the document insists on a zoning "with a clear intention to condition the model of territorial and urban planning that is the responsibility of the Cabildos and City Councils of the island".
According to these allegations, the Plan also suffers, "in the elaboration of the implementation of the energy model that is proposed and the necessary land occupation that it would demand, especially in regards to wind and photovoltaic energy, the necessary consensus with the Cabildo and the City Councils of the island".
The City Council of Tías "disapproves that the plan is conceived at the autonomous level and is not adapted to the island territory of Lanzarote, taking into account the singularities of each zone and its territorial incidence".
According to the allegations presented, "attending to the model of territorial and urban planning that is established from the Island Plan of Ordination and from the municipal planning, respectively, being indisputable the commitment to the penetration in our energy system of alternative energies to the pollutants, they must attend to the least impact on soil consumption, opting for areas already degraded or of little visual impact or in industrial soils and roofs".
In short, "the basic principle that must preside over the energy implementation model is that Lanzarote, in its commitment to sustainability, has the right to decide the energy model it wants and agree on how it will be developed", concludes José Juan Cruz.
