The Canarian collective Salto a la Transición Ecológica asks the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Government of the Canary Islands to get involved in finding solutions to unblock the reversible pumping station in Güímar.
They thus add to the words, collected in an interview with DIARIO DE AVISOS, by Eladio Romero González, professor of chemical and environmental engineering, as well as an environmental lawyer, who claims the important role that the Cabildo and the Government of the Canary Islands would have to intercede and reach a solution, even if it were extrajudicial, that allows the Güímar jump to be carried out.
This work is essential to meet the decarbonization objectives of the Canary Islands in 2040, since it facilitates the integration and storage of renewable energy and the management of the electrical system without the need to burn fossil fuels.
Apparently, the location of a reversible pumping station in Güímar, in the holes produced by the extraction of aggregates, is paralyzed pending the Supreme Court, which must rule on the possibility of executing an environmental restoration. From the group they affirm that in Tenerife “the calendar established by the Government of the Canary Islands will not be fulfilled if the tools that would allow the installation of more renewable energies are not accelerated.”
Luisi Castro
It must be remembered that in an order dated January 18, 2021, the Provincial Court declared “the impossibility” of restoring the Güímar ravines affected by the extraction of aggregates, a sentence that it imposed on four businessmen five years earlier (January 28, 2016 ).
The former mayor of Güímar, Carmen Luisa Castro, already warned about this “impossibility” in her day, for which she requested that the City Council be compensated and become the owner of the degraded land and came to present various projects, from a hotel complex to a comprehensive project called De cumbre a mar, which included a hydroelectric power station, interconnected between two quarries.
“Since 2015 I supported the hydroelectric power plant project. Now, in opposition, I filed a motion for the City Council to locate it here. I have not changed my speech, as did the Socialists who did not support the proposal because they said then that the ravines were not touched. I am glad that now they say the opposite”, indicated Castro in Onda Tenerife.
