Several subjects study concepts such as Sustainable Development, Renewable Energies, Recycling, Ecology, Ecosystem, etc. The Government has considered that all citizens should ...
Several subjects study concepts such as Sustainable Development, Renewable Energies, Recycling, Ecology, Ecosystem, etc. The Government has considered that all citizens should know and reflect on these subjects, which is why it has included them in the curricula of different teachings. Underlying this is the idea that current natural resources are partly ours and partly those who come after us. Thus, in Lanzarote, more specifically in the south, we have behaved selfishly. In a few years, with total abandon, we have usurped an important part of the development possibilities - at least urban development - from future generations. And this, at the cost of a somewhat gray legality.
Last week, thanks to the firm impulse of Minister Soria, the Supreme Court has authorized oil exploration off the coasts of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. So close, that the Canary Islands exploration area 4 is about 18 km from the Las Dunas de Corralejo Natural Park. They will be made at an oceanic depth of around 1,500 meters, to which another 2,000 meters of rocky drilling bottom will have to be added. This makes them the deepest total depth explorations in the world. If we take into account only the height of sea water, we find a similar case: the Deepwater Horizon platform, in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 20, 2010, at about ten in the morning, there was an explosion in this oil facility that resulted in a month and a half of uncontrolled oil spills into the sea.
According to 2011 data, renewable energies covered a third of Spanish electricity demands. Likewise, Spain was one of the pioneers in the study and development of this type of technology; the El Hierro Hydro-Wind Power Plant project is a clear example. As before, Mr. Soria appears here again. On January 28, the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, promoted Decree-Law 1/2012, which has put a brake on the expansion of renewable facilities for electricity production.
From what has been described, it does not seem reasonable for the Government to favor environmental education of citizens and, at the same time, continue to want to bet on polluting fossil fuels. There are many reasons to oppose oil exploration. But I would like to emphasize one of them. I think we have exceeded ourselves territorially. We cannot stumble on the same stone, and leave the sea mortgaged to those who succeed us as well.
