El Pajar, in the south of Gran Canaria, is risking its future this October: either industrial or tourist. The Masaveu family's cement plant is going to sneak into the electoral debate in the south of Gran Canaria in 2023 irremediably, whether the decision is taken in one direction or the other. Due to the expiration of the concession in October 2022, the Masaveu company requested a new concession benefited by the AIEM which, it assures, has an impact on employment and purchases from local suppliers. The company has its own materials supplier.
The hotel sector, however, defends that this concession is fallow. Because the concession on the port expired in March 2020 and they have been precarious for two years, as long as the pandemic. The sector that wants to invest in that area maintains that what has expired cannot be extended, that the right, once expired, is extinguished. You cannot extend what does not exist. That is why, the sector maintains, this procedure was so critical for Masaveu. The sector maintains that Justice has not agreed nor has it decreed that the expiration date is October 2022 because the concessional titles say that it expired in March 2020.
Thus, a peninsular company and another from Tenerife have the most complicated urban planning issues in the tourist destination. Perhaps the day Loro Parque begins work on El Veril it will have to bring cement from a production plant in Lanzarote or Puerto de Las Palmas. For now, Ceisa resists; but Ceisa benefits from AIEM, the EU state aid that prevents other cement companies on the Peninsula from offering better prices to construction companies or companies in the sector.
Masaveu has denied that he has agreed with the Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sebastián Franquis, the transfer of his factory, located in the port of Santa Águeda, although he has expressed "full willingness for dialogue and consensus" to analyze "any proposal that allows it to continue carrying out its industrial activity as before", also emphasizes that the factory is "situated on land owned by the company."
