The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Peter Martinhas once again shown its support for the Engine Circuit. asked in watch me tv for information published in Canary Islands Now Regarding the expiration of the environmental evaluation of the project, the socialist has defended that the island corporation has favorable reports to carry out the work. ”The bodies that have to say whether the circuit continues to have the environmental evaluation in force tell us yes. Therefore, we are going to continue forward,” he stressed.
The expert who advises the Cabildo de Tenerife on the Motor Circuit is the same one who told him that it was not viable
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However, a legal report prepared in November 2022 by the Support Unit of the Tenerife Environmental Evaluation Commission (CEAT) advised the Cabildo to carry out a new evaluation. The project’s only Environmental Impact Statement dates from 2011 and, according to the CEAT, “cannot be valid ad eternum.”
The document states that, “for reasons of legal certainty,” a new evaluation of the entire project must be carried out, “since the environmental evaluation at hand has expired.”
”We politicians cannot be without making decisions for fear that someone might say that we approved something that could not be approved. There may be technicians who say they disagree and want to challenge. Let them do it, they are within their rights,” Martín replied.
The Tenerife Association of Friends of Nature (ATAN) had already warned about the expiration of this necessary document for the project. ”With all my respects to ATAN, which is a serious group that defends what they believe is good for nature, here I do not share their criteria. Beyond the environmental issues, they don’t want the circuit to be done and I support the circuit. I have been supporting him since he was mayor in the south of Tenerife and I have continued to support him because it seems to me a good project for the island,” Pedro Martín asserted in the interview.
The so-called Parque Internacional del Motor de Tenerife will occupy a total of one million square meters and has a multi-year public investment of 51 million euros until 2025. To this figure is added the cost of 605,000 euros that the Cabildo has decided to invest in advertising and promotion.
”We are going to continue forward. If every time someone disagrees with something on this island we had to paralyze, all projects would be paralyzed. I know of almost none that someone does not appeal or that someone does not say that they do not agree,” added the president.
The Socialist also announced that “the only new data” that the Intervention has transferred is the need to request a new consent from the Granadilla City Council for a new phase of the work. ”I’m worrying that it meets all the legal criteria for it to start up. I am not going to paralyze a project because there are people who do not agree. I think there is a social majority that wants this project. It can add value to the island of Tenerife,” he concluded.
