Yes We Can Canarias claims that any intervention in the puddles of Tenerife be discarded definitively

The island councilor Ruth Acosta defends that “a large part of the Canarian population has spoken out clearly and emphatically against any project for the touristification of our pools, and from the political part that defends this plan, now it is necessary to listen and guarantee 100% that none of these natural formations will be intervened ”.

With regard to the island of Tenerife, Acosta demands both the autonomous government and the Cabildo de Tenerife to abandon “clearly and unequivocally any project that contemplates the destruction of these natural coastal landscapes through the use of cement and concrete with the excuse of being carried out in the name of a tourist model of sun and beach that has expired for years, as we have already denounced on previous occasions ”.

The counselor declares that “those puddles that have already been anthropized should have adequate maintenance agreed between the island’s municipalities and the Canary Islands Government; but the natural pools should not be touched and they have to remain oblivious to these plans ”.

Ruth Acosta has criticized that “this is a new example in which the traditional political class blatantly ignores the necessary citizen participation that a question of this importance would entail, without submitting an idea as important as that contemplated in this plan to public consultation.” On the other hand, the counselor denounces the “lack of transparency with which the Government of the Canary Islands has been working on this Tidal Pool Master Plan, making it known publicly to the entire population at the end of last July and without the pertinent exposition and explanation to all the citizens of the Archipelago ”.

Given the statements of the Minister of Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands, Yaiza Castilla, who leaves the decision to resume this initiative in the hands of the island councils, the Minister Ruth Acosta insists that all the political forces of the Cabildo de Tenerife have the responsibility of make a “clear and resounding statement that commits and ensures that there will be no interventions in the natural pools of the Island, as identified in the Master plan of the autonomic Government ”.

Acosta emphasizes that “in Tenerife we ​​have environmental issues that do need immediate attention, such as solving the major problems of polluting discharges that we continue to have in our waters and that constitute a much higher priority than anthropizing the few natural pools that we have left ”.

The counselor of Sí Podemos Canarias in the Cabildo de Tenerife denounces the “rapidity with which it is forgotten that we live in a fragile and limited territory, with a considerable population load that already deteriorates enough in itself the natural landscapes of our land, on the that precisely tourism benefits and that we have the responsibility to conserve and protect each and every one ”.