The municipality of Tinajo offered the extraction of aggregates from Montana Rodeos, located in its municipal area, to recover the agriculture of the Island after the passage of Delta, but from the beginning, at least according to Antonio Morales, Councilor for Agriculture and Livestock, requested some compensation for said aid.
According to Morales, the Consistory transmitted it to the Regional Executive's own Councilor for Territorial Planning, Domingo Berriel, the day he visited the mountain. The Cabildo and the Canary Islands Territorial Planning and Environment Commission (COTMAC) approved the extraction of rofe, but the final approval of the City Council presided over by Jesús Machín is still pending.
Willing to listen to offers
One of the compensation proposals, which the president of the Cabildo, Inés Rojas, already has on the table, is the updating of the Municipal Charter. If the First Island Corporation accepts the proposal, it would mean that the coffers of Tinajo would receive approximately 300,000 euros more annually for this concept.
"We are a municipality that has renounced Tourism, like Haría, and we charge less than the northern municipality for the Municipal Charter," said Morales, who also asserted that Tinajo is willing to listen to counter-proposals for compensation, such as the construction of infrastructure or other alternatives that start from the Cabildo.
The Consistory hopes that there will be some response next week. "We have been quite supportive of Lanzarote and now the Island must be supportive of us," concluded the head of Agriculture and Livestock.
For his part, the Councilor for Territorial Policy of the Cabildo, Carlos Espino, recalled that the request for extraction from the Executive was made with the consent of the City Council and preferred not to enter the debate.