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Torres seeks to get the Masaveu to accept that there will be alternatives for the El Pajar cement factory

Torres seeks to get the Masaveu to accept that there will be alternatives for the El Pajar cement factory

Yurena Vega Thursday, August 04, 2022

In Freemasonry the number seven is the one that is related to the degree of Master, since the age of this degree is "seven years and more." This is said to mean that the Master Mason masters the meaning of this number and has deep knowledge of its symbolism. The seven lights, and the seven main dignitaries of the Lodge, are another example of the importance that Freemasonry attaches to the septenary. Well, seven is the number of alternatives that the Government of the Canary Islands of the PSOE, Frente Amplio, Podemos and ASG has on the table to propose to Masaveu what to do with the El Pajar cement factory.

 

The issue is that the Government of the Canary Islands is approaching the scenario of the month of October 2022, the month in which it has to say what to do with the Corporación Masaveu cement plant in the south of Gran Canaria. PSOE and AV defend that he stay in El Pajar. CC and PP are opposed and propose a controlled relocation, a thesis supported by the Las Palmas hotel employers. The leader of the PSOE in Gran Canaria and advisor of OO.PP of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sebastián Franquis, is the one who will have to give the bad news to the City Council of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, to the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and Masaveu (in the orbit of Asinca) as well as affected groups such as the FEHT, that is, tourism. And it will be bad news because no one would be happy at the sight of a range of 7 possible future uses that the Administration is considering for that surface.

The Canary Islands Executive formed by PSOE, Frente Amplio, ASG and Podemos has to make a decision on seven options and hopes that all this will be done by consensus, which is very complicated because moving a cement factory is not moving a shoe store. It is something very serious, as is happening to Tirma with the plant she has in Escaleritas, in Las Palmas, and she must move to Arinaga. The response from industrial companies is the same: what do employees eat for the two years that disassembly, transfer and assembly may take? "We seek to generate consensus around the decision that is ultimately adopted," the Government of the Canary Islands said this Wednesday.

Masaveu has asked to continue in El Pajar for another quarter of a century because the concession ends in October, although the hotel management interprets that this period has already passed and that they must move to Arinaga. The problem with the Masaveu business is that another added problem is the concession of an aggregate exploitation that they have in the south of the island and that for large infrastructures such as the Gran Canaria train or finishing the La Aldea highway there would not be concrete in square.

The advisor to the Presidency of the Canary Islands, Julio Pérez, said this Wednesday that "I speak from memory, but it seems to me that there are up to seven designs. They have considered the alternatives that are physically possible, because there are things that cannot be done, cannot be closed." the port or the cement factory overnight," he said. Pérez added that "what we have known are some technical conclusions from the three departments involved in this file, OO.PP, Industry and Territorial Policy, which what they do is tell us what are the possible routes that the port has; they are guidelines so that public administrations themselves can make decisions," he clarified.

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