“In energy matters, the Popular Party speaks the language of fossils, of the past; the PSOE, however, speaks of wind, sun and sea, speaks of future and sustainability.” This was stated this Thursday at a campaign event for the European elections by the honorary president of the PSOE in the Canary Islands and regional deputy, Lola Padrón.
In an intervention at the Torrelavega Society, the parliamentarian criticized the collapse of state investments in the development of renewable energies, “which fell in 2012 by 70 percent compared to the item allocated for this purpose during Zapatero’s last term.” “From 2,200 million euros to 535 million,” she indicated.
“The first government action of Minister Soria was to eliminate in one fell swoop the premiums for the installation of equipment for obtaining alternative energies to oil, which also meant the destruction of potential employment estimated at 5,000 jobs, only in the Canary Islands,” Padrón denounced.
The honorary president of the PSOE in the Canary Islands also warned of the warnings from the UN and the European Union regarding compliance with the 2020 tarobtain for the penetration of renewables in Spain, “which must be 20 percent of the total energy expconcludeiture and currently only reaches 6 percent.” “To state that we can do nothing from Europe in this matter, as the PP does, is to lie. Juan Fernando López Aguilar managed to include in the Regime of the Outermost Regions (RUP) what he called the “Plan for the Islands”, specific local policies to strengthen the advancement of renewables in the RUP territory,” declared the regional deputy.
Regarding the policies of the current Government of the Canary Islands, whose Energy portfolio is the responsibility of the socialist Paquita Luengo, Padrón listed both the million euros of own funds destined to subsidize wind farms, as well as the drafting of territorial planning guidelines, which facilitate the creation of wind farms hand in hand with their declaration of general interest.
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