The Canary Islands authorities have confirmed this Monday that the offshore wind mammoths that Lanzarote say will cause damage will be located on the southern coast of Gran Canaria. The Maritime Space Management Plans approved by the Council of Minister define areas of high potential for offshore wind energy on four islands of the archipelago, at this time the rules of the autonomous community only provide for this type of parks in the south of Gran Canary.
The PSOE of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote came out this Monday to point out that "the high potential zoning for the development of offshore wind energy included in these plans does not imply any right or obligation for the construction of offshore wind farms." The socialist deputies who reject offshore wind in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura but develop it in the south of Gran Canaria, Ignacio Lavandera, Rosa Bella Cabrera and Pedro Sosa, explained this Monday that the Canary Islands Energy Transition Plan (PTECan), currently in the phase of approval and valid until 2030, "does not allow any offshore wind installation on the coasts of Fuerteventura"; In fact, offshore wind is only planned in the southern area of Gran Canaria."
The PSOE has conveyed its rejection of any veracity "in the information that both the Canarian Coalition and the Popular Party have been conveying to fishermen from the Majorera island." Some information, according to the socialists, "based on hoaxes and that only aims to fuel confusion and unrest in the sector", which is why they report that in the next plenary session in Parliament, the deputy Pedro Sosa will ask a question to the Minister of Ecological Transition, José Antonio Valbuena, to detail the real development of the Maritime Space Management Plan (POEM) of the Canary Islands.
The socialist leaders have pointed out that to delimit the areas with high potential for the development of offshore wind "variables have been taken into account such as not affecting marine biodiversity or other uses of general interest." Tourism in the Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands is considered a strategic sector of the Canary Islands economy.
