However, the report prepared by the head of the Administrative Service for Sustainable Development and the Fight Against Climate change on November 26, 2020 “does not indicate anywhere that compensation cannot be made, does not establish a legal impediment for Arico to receive compensation for diseconomies.” The report talks about the situation that has been taking place so far, “but does not establish any prohibition,” explains Pérez.
The conclusion reached by the CC counselor is that «Javier Rodríguez Medina is justifying his political decision based on a lie. The PSOE is deceiving the residents of Arico, the entire local Corporation and the rest of the island’s municipalities, because it is not true that the agreement cannot be made. Pérez clarifies that the amount paid by the municipalities so that the waste is treated in the Arico landfill is what is included in the Territorial Plan for Waste Management of Tenerife (Pteor), but “another thing is the agreement for the compensation of diseconomies . This allows investments of all kinds to be made in the municipality, something very necessary to generate employment. They are compatible and what the Cabildo has to do is comply with the agreement of the plenary session last year and abandon the sectarianism in which the island government has installed itself.
Retaliation for censorship
Blanca Pérez defines as “Humiliating treatment” that the municipal government receives from the Cabildo. “Since the motion of censure against the socialist Olivia Delgado took place, Pedro Martín launched a campaign against the municipality. All are difficulties to carry out any project. It happened with the El Río dam, with the institute’s roundabout and now with the Tenerife Environmental Complex ”, reflects CC.
The nationalist councilor calls the island government to sanity and asks the president, Pedro Martín, to have “high-mindedness” to address “a strategic issue for Tenerife such as the treatment of waste.” He warns that “we continue working to do justice, that Arico receives the appropriate investments and that the island’s waste management is not put at risk based on an agreement between all the island’s municipalities.”
The report
The head of the Administrative Service for Sustainable Development and the Fight Against Climate Change of the Council delivered on November 26, 2020 the so-called Report on the plenary agreement, adopted in an ordinary session held on July 31, 2020, on the motion of the Nationalist Group of the Canary Islands Coalition-PNC on the Environmental Complex of Tenerife and the compensation agreement for the City Council of Arico.
The area counselor, Javier Rodríguez, justified the refusal to renew said agreement based on the content of this document. In the plenary sessions held on June 25 and September 30, he assured that it establishes that two grants cannot be awarded for the same concept.
After making a chronology of the creation of the landfill, its evolution towards an Environmental Complex with the change in waste treatment that this entails, It should be recalled that on August 21, 2001, the previous agreement – in force until 2018 – came into force and that since 2010 “the municipality has been compensated” based on the Pteor, the technical author of the report reflects that, “without prejudice to Regarding the considerations that can be made from another perspective, it can be said that, currently, it is responding to the need of the Arico City Council to be compensated for the possible damages and inconveniences associated with the existence of the Tenerife Environmental Complex in its municipal term ”.
And he adds: «In fact, it could be said that from 2010 to 2018, the date on which the collaboration agreement expired in order to exploit the final destination of the compensation, two agreements have coexisted that came to respond to the same reality, although the first one with a more finalist character in terms of the destination of the contributions made by the Cabildo de Tenerife ».
The head of the service does not expressly pronounce himself and relies on the paradigm shift in action and policy on waste to justify the content of his report, in which he determines that “the reasons given in 2000 could not be extrapolated at the present time, at least, not with the same intensity “, to justify compensation to Arico for occupying two million square meters of land (which will increase shortly) with the island landfill.
