The first National Standing Committee of the Canarian Coalition-Canarian Nationalist Party of this year, held at the headquarters of the nationalist formation in the capital of Gran Canaria, addressed the information about the oil explorations that Morocco has authorized the Italian company ENI to only 100 kilometers from the Canary coasts of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. For that reason, the Secretary of Organization of CC Guadalupe González Taño has announced the presentation of a motion in all the Canary Islands institutions and addressed to the Government of Spain, against these works, "that may put at risk the rich biodiversity of the Canary Islands waters and our main industry, which is tourism. We cannot allow Morocco to carry out oil explorations off the coast of the Canary Islands".
The aforementioned motion requests the Government of Spain to update the existing scientific information regarding the Site of Community Importance (SCI), of the LIFE 07/NAT/E/000732 project "INDEMARES", which resulted in the designation "Marine Area of the East and South of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura", to incorporate the proposed areas to the African coast, in coordination with the European Commission and the authorities of the neighboring nations.
In addition, in the motion, the Canarian Coalition requests the Government of Spain to establish a working group with the European Commission and the Kingdom of Morocco, aimed at halting mining activities in the Canary Islands-Africa canal and proposing sustainable, clean and renewable energy alternatives.
Finally, the motion also requests the Government of Spain to recover the commitment assumed at the time by the Executive and include the information and prior consultation with the Canary Islands institutions as an essential requirement in the process of processing any research activity in the vicinity of the islands. Guadalupe González Taño recalled that "the Canary Islands has fought for many years to prevent our sea from being the object of oil explorations when Spain wanted to do them. The citizens of the Canary Islands demonstrated massively in the past against oil and we will do it again. We are going to ask for the intervention of the European Union".
The Supreme Court rules in favor of the Canary Islands
Another of the issues that were addressed during the celebration of the National Standing Committee of CC-PNC at the nationalist headquarters in the capital of Gran Canaria, has been the decision of the Supreme Court to side with the Canary Islands in its litigation with the Ministry of Development for the cuts suffered during the crisis in the investments that the State should have made in its roads, recognizing in favor of the islands a debt of 138 million euros, only in 2012.
The TS argues in its ruling that the Canary Islands do not have roads that extend beyond its territory, so, in theory, it lacks road infrastructures of "general interest", so the State's investments in this matter in the archipelago are regulated since 1994 through a bilateral and multi-year agreement.
The Secretary of Nationalist Organization has pointed out that "we are pleased that the Supreme Court has sided with those of us who said that a State cannot arbitrarily cut the financing of an Autonomous Community as happened with the Canary Islands, breaching what was signed". González Taño hopes that "a meeting will be held soon with the Ministry of Development in which the rest of the years that are pending can be resolved, because this resolution only refers to the year 2012".