The ariqueros socialists speak out against the construction of an offshore wind farm in front of the coast of the municipality. For this, the PSOE make claims against the project Menceytaking into account the possible effects on the landscape, the natural marine environment, the nearest towns (Las Eras and Porís de Abona) or economic sectors such as the fishing. Thus, opposes the authorization requested by Capital Energy as it is posed. Remember that most of the authorized wind farms on the Island are located in Arico.
Olivia Delgado, its municipal spokesperson, calls for planning prior to any authorization of more wind or photovoltaic parks that affect the municipality, “because the accumulated impacts of this activity are affecting the ariqueros in their daily lives.” The councilor points out that they alter the territory, flora, fauna “and the daily life of people”.
This floating offshore wind farm would occupy 11.3 square kilometers, with 10 wind turbines of 15MW (megawatts) each, in addition to the infrastructures for evacuation and the substation that would be located on land. The project is in public information for your knowledge and allegations. Those of the PSOE are in line with preserving the territory and the ecosystem. “In the area where it would be located, there are very well-preserved sebadales that are considered vulnerable in the Spanish Catalog of Threatened Species and, furthermore, of interest to Canarian ecosystems in the Canarian Catalog of Protected Species. Said concession would generate important conditions for the exercise of the fishing activity and would have an impact on the population”, he qualifies.
without providing employment
It emphasizes that “the deployment of renewable energies in Tenerife has been practically concentrated in a single point, Arico, reaching a point of massification of these technologies”. Delgado points out that such an accumulation of renewable energy infrastructure has barely generated local employment.
The councilor maintains that in the PSOE “we have always defended the interests of the citizenry. A clear example of this is that in 2017, after an extraordinary plenary session requested by the PSOE, we agreed that the City Council would resort to all wind and photovoltaic parks that are intended to be installed in the municipality, or that affect the municipality, and have unfavorable municipal technical reports ” .
