The Cabildo of Tenerife has requested that the National Volcanology Center be installed in Tenerife, since it is the island with the highest volcanic risk in the Archipelago. The plenary session of the insular Corporation approved yesterday an institutional motion, at the proposal of the socialist group, in which the Government of Spain is urged to adopt the appropriate decisions that allow the island of Tenerife to be the headquarters of the National Volcanology Center. The alliance also contemplates urging the Government of the Canary Islands to promote and defend before the Government of Spain that they adopt the appropriate decisions that allow the island of Tenerife to be the headquarters of the aforementioned organization.
The agreement approved unanimously indicates that the Cabildo of Tenerife will maintain its efforts in promotion and defense before the Government of the Canary Islands and Spain to adopt the appropriate decisions that allow the island of Tenerife to be the headquarters of the National Volcanology Center.
In this sense, it recalls the work being carried out by the Canary Islands Volcanological Institute (Involcan), an entity dependent on the Cabildo, which mainly studies and supervises the most important volcanoes of the Archipelago, in particular Teide, in Tenerife; Cumbre Vieja, in La Palma; the underwater volcanoes of El Hierro, and the numerous cones and craters of Lanzarote. In addition to its action in the Canary Islands, the entity has a team of professionals with experience in scientific collaboration projects developed in more than 20 countries and volcanically active regions.
The National Volcanology Center is an entity unanimously demanded by the Senate, the Parliament of the Canary Islands and the Congress of Deputies whose purpose is to contribute to the improvement of volcanic risk management in Spain and the optimization of the management of the numerous benefits that entails living in a volcanic territory. The fundamental reasons why the main headquarters of this entity should be in Tenerife is because it is scientifically proven that it is the island with the highest volcanic risk in the Canary Islands and, therefore, also in Spain, since the Archipelago is the only volcanically active area. of the national territory with volcanic risk.
According to the socialist group in the insular Corporation, requesting the approved motion, the National Volcanology Center is an entity that has been sued and voted on on different occasions, such as in the Senate in 2005; in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, in 2006, and in the Congress of Deputies, in 2009.
