Silence in the business associations of Gran Canaria after giving the green light to the operation to remove the Ceisa cement plant from Tirajana (the Goth Corporación Masaveu and the Brazilian Votorantim) by Puertos Canarios, an entity of the Canary Community with a presence of local corporations and social agents. The concern is because they expect a series of reputational attacks that could generate a bad image for the destination, as is happening in Tenerife against tourism. The San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council went out this Wednesday to calm things down and tell the defenders of the Francoist industrial vestige of El Pajar that democracy is above their colonial interests. Alejandro Marichal, leader of CC in the south of Gran Canaria, has supported his party's decision. Both CC and PP hope that Ceisa and PSOE are not going to handle this matter as if it were the taking of a hill in la Rif war.
But it is not only the reaction to the Goda company but also how the PSOE pressures to divide neighbors against the business sector in the heat of social mobilizations. In 2023, the PSOE was invented to delay a final decision, a so-called interdepartmental commission to say that the most viable solution is for the cement plant to have shared use between industrial and sports for a reasonable period of time to allow the adaptation of the urban planning regulations that promote the transfer of the cement plant to the Arinaga industrial estate. In other words: save time. To do this, the PSOE put the neighbors on that same commission to generate noise. The socialists said they were proposing a "great island agreement" that would allow industrial activity to be maintained at another point and convert the current port into a facility linked to tourist and sports use.
This Wednesday, Ceisa mediators in Madrid have been speaking to the press believing that the islands' media are taking sides for a cause that is remote for the islanders in view of the digital traffic itself. In statements to Canarias Ahora, the cement company said they felt "shocked" with Puertos Canarios because they learned about the matter "through the press." He Ceisa butler in Las Palmas, Claudio Piernavieja, who has the title for the Canaries of "general coordinator", said that he has a "suspicion" about the orientations of the Puertos Canarios plan "when there was one that was already practically finished in the previous legislature, nourished by a multitude of reports, well armed". That is, he liked the PSOE plan and the PSOE neighbors close to the cement plant.
