SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 13. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Department of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water of the Government of the Canary Islands already has the first draft of the protocol regarding the possibility of an ‘energy zero’, work announced last October and which derives from the declaration of energy emergency for the Canary Islands. by the Department of Ecological Transition.
The counselor responsible for the area, Manuel Miranda, made this announcement minutes before presiding over the first session of the new Civil Protection and Emergency Response Commission of the Canary Islands, a body in which all the administrations with powers in the matter are represented. and, according to the counselor, that “allows us to continue deepening the essential coordination in prevention and planning in response to emergencies.”
In the Commission formed this morning, in addition to technicians and management positions from the Ministry itself, the General Directorate of Security, the Canarian Health Service, Ecological Transition, Industry, Transport, Education, Tourism, representatives of City Councils and Cabildos and of the General Administration of the State.
The aforementioned protocol, called Affectation of Basic Supplies, is a first basic text for the evaluation of critical infrastructures and essential services, “whose operation must be guaranteed in the event of a massive drop in the electricity supply.”
Furthermore, this morning’s session also served to approve a draft decree to incorporate into the Civil Protection Territorial Emergency Plan (PLATECA) an intervention protocol with drones in the field of civil protection, as well as the updating of the Special Chemical Risk Plan (RISQCAN) and the Radiological Risk Plan (RADICAN).
In the regulatory field, the Commission also approved the municipal emergency plans of Los Silos, La Matanza, Hermigua, Adeje, Mogán, Firgas, La Aldea and Tazacorte, with which there are now 68 municipalities that have had their emergency plan approved. The objective, Manuel Miranda has indicated, is to “continue working together with the rest until all the municipalities of the Archipelago have this approved standard.”
The Commission has also evaluated the emergencies that occurred during the summer in the Islands, to which “the magnificent professionals we have in the Canary Islands responded,” Miranda added, and has also served to present new developments such as the new organizational structure of the General Directorate of Emergencies, “more operational and efficient”; the progressive implementation of the ‘ES ALERT’ alert system, which began to be used in the great fire in Tenerife this summer; or the new criteria for the publication of relevant pre-alerts, a measure that aims to deepen the culture of self-protection of the population.
