The Ministry of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning announced this Tuesday that 1,200,000 euros will be allocated to sealing the illegal landfills of Casa Pedro Alonso (Granadilla), in Tenerife, and El Sobradillo (Gáldar), in Gran Canaria.
Some works that will be carried out through the Canary Islands Agency for the Protection of the Natural Environment (ACPMN), which will entrust them to the public company Gesplan, also part of the aforementioned Regional Council.
The regional councilor responsible for the area, José Antonio Valbuena, explains in a statement that both landfills have a restoration procedure initiated or previously resolved by the Agency itself, as the body responsible for these types of files.
The director of the agency, Ángel Fariña, confirms that it has been verified that the dumping of waste at these sites constitutes an offense typified in article 39 of Law 17/1999, of January 29, on Canary Islands Waste, proceeding to the initiation and instruction of the corresponding procedure for the replacement of the altered physical reality in the exercise of the powers attributed to it in this area.
These actions are to fulfill the commitment assumed by the Government of the Canary Islands to solve the infringement procedure 2015/2192 opened by the European Union to Spain in 2008.
In this way, the ACPMN has worked on more than 20 illegal landfills in the Canary Islands for their sealing, closure and restoration of the corresponding landscape.
