The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, announced yesterday that the Corporation is preparing a report, which is mandatory, to analyze the effects of the injunction suspension of the construction works of the tourist resort of Cuna del Alma, in El Puertito de Adeje, issued by the Department of Ecological Transition of the Government of the Canary Islands.
“We will leave it in the hands of officials and specialists,” he stressed, anticipating that it will be ready in a few weeks. Martín has not wanted to position himself on whether he is in favor of stopping the works and leaves the solution in the hands of the officials of the institution “who are the ones who have to comment on it.”
For his part, José Antonio Valbuena, Councilor for Ecological Transition of the Government of the Canary Islands, pointed out from Egypt, where he is attending the world summit on Climate Change, that the Cuna del Alma project lacks an environmental impact study.
Valbuena explains that the stoppage order issued last Thursday was taken after starting “a file in accordance with the provisions of the environmental responsibility law to meet a principle stated in that law, which is to prevent damage that is impossible or difficult to repair.” on a protected species; in this case, with a maximum level of protection due to the sad snake”.
“Now there is talk of legal uncertainty,” continued the counselor in Radius Brand, “but it is legal certainty, which is not the patrimony of some, but of the entire Canarian society, both a promoter or an investor, as well as an environmental group and public administrations. Now the presence of the snake has been detected, which was not detected in the process of strategic environmental evaluation of the general plan (and I underline the strategic part)”.
He also remarked that “this project lacks that environmental impact study and, therefore, does not have an impact statement and that is one of the main reasons why this protected species had not been detected.” For this reason, “the legal and technical services of the Agency for the Protection of the Natural Environment are reviewing the license granted by the Adeje City Council”, an administration that, he insists, acted as the law dictates. The license was granted with “all favorable reports”, municipal sources point out, warning that, in any case, it will be the administrations that ordered the stoppage that have to answer for the consequences of it.
The file on the Cuna del Alma license, indicated Valbuena, must be resolved within a maximum period of six months.
