The Island Government Commission will decide the future of the tender for the waste recovery project that keeps the Council, despite the fact that the Plenary Commission of the Natural Environment, Primary Sector and Municipal Cooperation agreed to the suspension. The final determination will take place once the reports that the government group will request from the managing services on said agreement have been issued. It will be the basis of the proposal that the Minister of Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez, will transfer to the contracting body, the Governing Council.
Rodríguez Medina defended that stopping this procedure requires “having the necessary technical and legal reports”, although he remained uncertain about the future of this initiative. This was stated in the framework of the Waste Management Monitoring Commission of the island of Tenerife and the Organic Fertilization Table, whose meeting he chaired yesterday.
“CC misinforms the public with falsehoods and without providing technical documents”
Popular Party.
“It is a democratic anomaly, because the Cabildo has said no to this project in a majority way.” Valentín González, advisor to the PP, argued that this decision by the island government amounts to “breaking the consensus” on waste. He stressed that “the hierarchy” in waste treatment must be respected, respecting the proposal of the European Union, which relegates energy recovery (option chosen by the Cabildo) to the last option. “Nobody says no to this valuation, but rather that the agreements of the collegiate bodies of the Insular Corporation should be prioritized and respected,” points out the counselor of the Popular Group.
“The suspension of this procedure requires the necessary technical and legal reports”
Canary Coalition.
Summary in which her counterpart from the Canary Coalition (CC), Blanca Pérez, agrees, for whom “the tender is not paralyzed, despite the agreement” adopted by CC, PP and Sí Podemos Canarias last Friday, “which we understand as mandatory compliance”. “The current Special Territorial Plan for Waste Management (Pteor) is the result of a very important consensus among social and political organizations that the government team in the Cabildo has unilaterally broken”, defended the counselor.
“It is a democratic anomaly, because the Cabildo has said no to this project”
Yes We Can Canarias.
Incógnita is the term most pronounced by the spokesmen of the political groups that form the opposition in the Cabildo. María José Belda (Sí Podemos Canarias) reiterated that “we do not know if the process is going to stop or not” and, like the rest of his counterparts, required the counselor Javier Rodríguez to comply and make the proposal to the Island Government Council respecting the agreement of the Plenary Commission of the Natural Environment. Despite the fact that he considers that “it is not mandatory”, thus disagreeing with the rest of the opposition. “There has been a lack of coordination, debate and participation,” reflected the counselor. They all agree that the implementation of the fifth container on the Island “is a priority, although it will not be effective for 15 years, as they told us.”
“We don’t know if it’s going to stop or not. There has been a lack of coordination, debate and participation »
Sebastian Martin.
The mayor of Arico intervened in the almost three-hour meeting that began at 4:00 p.m. yesterday to expose the denial of the City Council by the island government in this matter, as it had not been previously consulted. He is concerned about “the lack of information and transparency” in the file.
“They have unilaterally broken the consensus on waste”
The initial proposal.
The Cabildo is putting out to tender the private exploitation of a public plot of 25,000 square meters of the Environmental Complex to install a plant for 15 years with state-of-the-art processing: pyrolysis, gasification and plasma. The contest excludes incineration, Javier Rodríguez repeated yesterday.
Two external reports
The island government will collect technical reports on the content of the tender for the use of the AG-2 plot of the Tenerife Environmental Complex and its adaptation to the Canary Islands Comprehensive Waste Plan (Pircan). Reports that will require the Ministry of Ecological Transition, Fight Against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands and the University of La Laguna. The president of the Corporation, Pedro Martín, accuses CC of offering “disinformation” to the public, “falsehoods and without providing any technical document.” The reports – “objective data”, he points out – will be added to those issued by technicians from the Insular Service for Sustainable Development, “which endorse the suitability of this public tender.” He assures that he is not in a hurry and wants to have the aforementioned reports from the regional Executive and the University of La Laguna “before ending the processing of the file.” Martín regrets “the permanent desire of CC to try to leave the island government in a minority, without caring that it harms really fundamental issues for the island.”
