After the sinking of the Russian fishing vessel Oleg Naydenov on April 14, 2015, 15'6 miles south of the coast of Gran Canaria, the Minister of Development, Ana Pastor, of the Spanish Popular Party, requests proposals and recommendations so that, in the shortest possible time, the Government of Spain has an Operational Program that allows them to manage 100% effective coordination in actions for the rescue of fauna and support for volunteering after the arrival of fuel to the coasts of Gran Canaria. So far everything is logical and normal.
The impudent and insolent fact, the fact that proves that the leaders of the Popular Party in Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands and in Spain have no shame, is that on April 20 of the same year, Minister Ana Pastor calls Ezequiel Navío, head of the Office of Global Action against oil exploration of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, to join a meeting in the afternoon at the Coastal Demarcation of the capital of Gran Canaria in order to create and coordinate the Wildlife Rescue and Volunteer Support Group (GRFAV), proposing a set of guidelines within the framework of the emergency and promote this permanent action team to consolidate and test the operation before being transferred to the authorities.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, as you read, the ministers of the Spanish Government of the PP, with José Manuel Soria at the head, who despised the voice of environmental associations, institutions and citizens of the Canary Islands who recommended that they stop oil exploration on our coasts due to its enormous danger to our environment and economy, now asked the advisor to the President of the Cabildo of Lanzarote for help to guide them on how to act in an oil spill in our waters. The same ones who vociferated just three years ago that we were ignorant alarmists in hydrocarbon matters, now clung to the office and the person they had been putting down until the other day. WHAT A NERVE!.
Yes, colleagues, what you hear, the leaders of the Conservative Party of the Canary Islands, with Australia Navarro as a candidate to govern our land in these 2015 elections, God forbid, who insulted the intelligence of the Canarians talking about the economic benefits and employment that oil was going to bring us, and denounced the millionaire expenditure of euros made by the Canary Islands institutions in defense of their land, now requested the help of the man they discredited as an environmentalist living off public money. WHAT CYNICISM!.
Yes, friends, what you deduce, those responsible for the Popular Party in Lanzarote, with Astrid Pérez at the forefront of a party that wishes to lead our institutions in this electoral process of Sunday, May 24, which did not respect their plenary agreements until the other day, who demanded the closure of the Global Action Office and the immediate dismissal of Ezequiel Navío, now begged our advisor to coordinate an operational program of information and training on the impacts of this toxic substance that until yesterday they praised as the solution to all the ills of the Canary Islands. WHAT A DISGRACE!.
But in the face of these shameless acts, what was the response of our President of the Cabildo, Pedro San Ginés, and our head of the OAG, Ezequiel Navío: quite the opposite, we are not all the same, although the thief thinks that everyone is of his same condition. They agreed to collaborate in the creation of this rescue group and support the efforts to fight against this fuel spill in our marine environment. Because we know that with the marine currents and prevailing winds that exist in our land, the problem of our sister Gran Canaria, as of any other island, is also a matter of Lanzarote, not only for reasons that may affect us, but for a word called solidarity. Because as Pedro San Ginés did, at the time, he looked for the best advisor on these issues as the PP leaders have done in the end. Time puts everyone in their place, fortunately.
*Juan Antonio de la Hoz González, Councilor for Citizen Participation and Immigration, Biosphere Reserve and Education and Culture of the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
