"Political corruption has been the leadership that has led the planning"
Destruction at all costs 2010. Greenpeace
In the rhetoric of current policy, full of big words and statements designed to occupy ephemeral headlines fade as soon close the edition of the newspaper, has spoken and continues to speak of the need for a change current production model in the English economy. In the Canary Islands appeals to need for this change have not been absent from political debate despite an initiative of this type exceeds the time in which usually shortsighted policy planning work.
In 2001 tourism moratorium law passed by the Canarian government sought to curb to a tourism model based on growth in the number of beds. At the same time various organizations, including the universities Canary Islands, reported that it was a totally useless legal initiative and reverse away from the urban pressure on land was only a political ploy to give government punished some sensitivity to the Canary Islands.
In Greenpeace's latest report on the status of the English coast (Destruction at all costs 2010) indicates that the destruction of the coastline in the Canary Islands has reached significant levels. The urbanized area in the period 1997 to 2002 grew by 54% and this despite the fact that only 40% of its land is developable. Only in five years (1997 and 2002) the urbanized area grew by 54%. Urban pressure has been particularly focused on the pristine stretches of coastline. The worst affected islands have been Fuerteventura (with a floor space of 159% in the last 17 years) Lanzarote (with a growth of 60%) and Tenerife (with 51%).
So the self-styled tourist moratorium, as was reported in 2001, far from containing the growing number of tourist beds rushed to grant many of them with the expectation that there is a real constraint for them in the years following. Subsequent amendments to that Act came into force in 2003, have ended up producing the opposite effect for which it is supposed, was conceived, to grow the number of tourist and residential beds.
According to the report of the environmental organization in the destruction of the Canarian coast have influenced three key factors:
1 - The lopsided development of infrastructure such as marinas and industrial ports. The organization points out that various canary compete with each other to become the benchmark in this activity regardless of environmental consequences that entails in the environment. The nationwide lack of serious study to streamline the volume and type of infrastructure developed so far and an analysis of the feasibility and / or necessity of which are designed, there is also in the Canary Islands where the maximum governing procedure seems to be as much as possible .
2 - The increase in urban pressure by multiplying the urban area for the development of new residential places and tourist shows clearly that the so-called moratorium tourism was nothing but a hoax that has contributed to the institutionalization the destruction of the coast.
3 - The lack of a plan for sewage treatment and the lack of control over illegal discharges into the sea. The report criticizes the procedure of discharge through the installation, in waters of the ocean outfalls that are transported by wastewater without specific treatment.
The origin of the destruction of the coast there are two things worth mentioning. a-political corruption linked to urban issues. According to the report by Greenpeace in 2008, Canary has the dubious honor of being the Autonomous Community, together with Andalusia, had more mayors and councilors in the crosshairs of the Justice for his involvement in plots of urban corruption. Thus he says, not unreasonably, that "political corruption has been the leadership that has led the planning" and across space canary give a whole series of illegal urban development of which is the paradigm Lanzarote (urban mismatches in Lanzarote threaten its status as a Biosphere Reserve. The Country. 06/07/2010) that has ended up looking like the grim example of the pitch culture and political corruption, Marbella. (A 'Marbella' emerge in Lanzarote. The Country. 17.03.2008)
b-The connivance of the government. Since the municipalities, which have acted as real estate developers in the shade, reclassified soil to the Environment Ministry itself, which back in 2006 announced a multi-year investment of 200 million euros in Canary works on the coast, there have been proceedings by action or omission that encouraged the destruction of the Canarian coast through the construction of works that are very far from conservation-oriented the coast. No wonder talk that the administration is the major environmental offenders.
Speaking of changing the production model should be today's politicians claim greater rigor and rhetoric are no longer empty. But above all should consider their own actions in the past that are what have given this as a present and a future that will shape much worse if not do something to stop this development model wasteful of natural resources.
Photo 1: Playa de las Americas. Tenerife. Greenpeace
Photo 2: Hotel Papagayo Arena in the nature reserve of Papagayo. Lanzarote. In http://www.ecoboletin.com/
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