The Official Gazette of the Province (BOP) of Santa Cruz de Tenerife publishes this Monday three announcements of the Cabildo de Tenerife with which it puts on public display the project of the Engine Circuit to be built in Granadilla, with an approximate cost of 48 million, which with a tender budget amounts to 51.3 million, and a little over five years of work.
Ecologists warn that the environmental impact statement for the Motor Circuit has expired
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The first announcement corresponds to the project Adaptation of the Tenerife International Motor Park to the Defense Plan against Floods prepared by Gestur with an estimated value of 5.8 million and a base bidding budget of 6.2 million.
The project has an execution period of 14 months, counting from the formalization of the layout verification act.
The second, under the name Project of earthworks and installations for removable grandstands for the Tenerife International Motor Park, also from Gestur, reaches a cost of 7.8 million with a base bidding budget of 8.3 million. In principle, the workers will be extended for a period of 18 months.
The third, Modified project of the speed track in the Tenerife International Motor Park, It is the most expensive of the projects: 34.4 million, which in the bidding base budget reaches 36.8 million.
The project, which also comes from the hand of Gestur, will be executed in an approximate period of two and a half years.
The Cabildo opens from this Monday a period of 20 days to consult the documentation and admits the presentation of allegations.
The Motor Circuit, which for now has the accesses to the North area already completed and the bidding process for the second phase is yet to be completed, will be officially presented this Tuesday at the Tenerife Auditorium in a ceremony led by the journalist Antonio Lobato and which will include Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz as a guest.
The event, which starts at 7:00 p.m., will also be joined by former motorcycling driver Carlos Checa and the Canarian-Italian driver from off road Christine Giampaoli Zonca.
The track is 4,050 meters long, has 16 corners and has the particularity of being one of the few in the world where it would run counterclockwise.
In the circuit it will be possible to reach maximum speeds of 320 km/h by car and minimum speeds of 95 in the steepest curve, and in the case of motorcycles, the speed range ranges between 315 and 80 km/h.
Protest against an “unnecessary” circuit
Coinciding with the presentation of the circuit, environmental groups have called a protest against the project at 6:00 p.m. in the Tenerife Auditorium.
In addition, the Association of Friends of Nature (ATAN) has denounced this Monday that the project has the Expired Environmental Impact Statement Well, it was approved 11 years ago.
He maintains that these movements around the Motor Circuit “have merely electoral purposes” because the advances in the project “are not real nor do they comply with the law, that is, the Cabildo prepares a party to present a project that does not even meet the procedures and conditions to be approved.
In his opinion, the project must have a new Environmental Impact Statement that complies with current environmental regulations, “more demanding in terms of respect for the environment than the one in force at the time of writing this already expired EIS.”
They also demand that the institutions “rethink the complicated moment” that the planet is experiencing “in terms of climate change, loss of biodiversity, logistical problems for food imports and total dependence on foreign islands.” .
ATAN maintains that “times have changed so drastically that circumstances force us more than ever to reconsider where economic efforts and destiny as a society are placed, and the Motor Circuit is obviously not the place.”
Meanwhile, both Sí Podemos and Canarian Coalition have asked to know the cost of this act of presentation.
