The UN dismisses the complaint filed by the environmental collective Save La Tejita due to opacity in the processing of the project to build the Circuit of Engine of Tenerife. The Secretariat of the Convention on Access to Public Information, Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, a body of the United Nations, resolves in a letter sent last Friday the 6th to the Ministry of Ecological Transition that it does not It can be demonstrated that Salvar La Tejita’s right to access all documentation for the project planned in Atogo, in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona, has been violated.
On August 7, the aforementioned UN body received a complaint from Salvar La Tejita, a group that opposes the Motor Circuit or other public and private projects such as the La Tejita Hotel (Granadilla de Abona) and the Cuna urbanization. of the Soul (Adeje). It alleges non-compliance with regard to access to environmental information related to the automobile track that is intended to be built in the south of Tenerife. The 24-page complaint was filed against the central government. Salvar La Tejita argues that it has detected 25 breaches of the procedural transparency requirements.
The UN department accepted the complaint for processing, consulted both parties – environmentalists and promoters of the project, mainly the Cabildo of Tenerife – and has just concluded that Salvar La Tejita has not exhausted all avenues to obtain the documents it requires. For example, it cites that the procedure opened by the Ombudsman of Spain, also at the request of Salvar La Tejita, “is still ongoing”, which is why it rejects that it can be concluded that the Aarhus Convention of the Nations has been violated. United Nations, which promotes a series of mechanisms to guarantee participation in environmental issues, demanding the elimination of obstacles that make it difficult.
The Cabildo is going to invest more than 55 million euros in building the Motor Circuit, an infrastructure that, according to the insular Corporation, is “in high demand” by fans of this discipline in Tenerife. The Cabildo wants to give it a definitive boost because it believes that it will generate development, employment and economic activity for the Island.
