The political group Arico Somos Todos has expressed this Saturday its rejection of the offshore wind farm whose installation is planned in waters near this municipality, due to its impact on the towns of Tajao, Las Arenas, La Caleta and Las Maretas, mainly.
In a statement, Arico Somos Todos, which has two councilors in the Tenerife municipality corporation, advances that it will appear and make allegations about the project, which is currently on public display.
He argues that Arico is “enormously affected” by this type of facilities located in its territory, which makes it “the municipality that brings together the majority of the entire Canary Islands without any compensation being received for enduring this situation.”
Regarding the offshore wind farm, it points out that its location “conditions the development of a very important part of the Arico coast and seriously threatens” the continuity of the artisanal fishing that takes place in Tajao.
“We do not understand how a natural environment can be disfigured to fill it with iron and underwater cables that will have to come out over land and connect to the network. This is a real attack. We can’t allow it. We will fight with all our might,” she insists.
Apart from the landscape impact, it warns that the blades of the wind turbines can cause the death or injury of birds, mammals and sea turtles that approach or pass through the wind farm area.
And he adds that the noise generated by the turbines and the assembly of the structures can affect the communication, behavior and survival of marine animals, especially cetaceans.
Likewise, it indicates that accidental spills of fuel, oil or heavy metals from boats, machinery or wind turbines themselves can contaminate waters and sediments, and harm marine flora and fauna, and that these facilities can destroy or modify the habitats and biodiversity of the seabed, as well as causing the resuspension of sediments that affect water quality.
Finally, it alleges that the electromagnetic fields generated by power lines can affect species of marine fauna that orient themselves by the Earth’s magnetic field, such as sharks or rays, and also the navigation systems of boats.
Arico Somos Todos is committed to doing everything in its power “to stop this abominable project that will be very close to the coastline and that will have an impact of such magnitude that those sites will be unrecognizable.”