Ni Ben Magec Ecologistas en Acción dice nada. The pressure to close the gas passage of Totisa Holding was unanimous, with everyone abstaining when it comes to the Turkish energy vessel. The debate regarding the energy emergency in the Canary Islands has taken an unexpected turn. While the Turkish multinational Karadeniz Powership maintains a deafening silence regarding the impact of its power generation barges, it is the Canary Islands Government itself that has taken on the role of the main supporter of the project at the port of Las Palmas (Coalición Canaria). This attitude has triggered a storm of doubts in the sectors of the port of Las Palmas: Why does the public administration engage in lobbying that should correspond to a private company?Another thing is that the company has not been formally ‘touched’ by the Canary Executive, which, for preventive purposes in the event of a blackout in Gran Canaria, can shift the responsibility to the Port of Las Palmas (CC) for refusing to support the project, supposedly. The experience of Puerto Viejo, in Azua (Dominican Republic), serves as a troubling mirror for the archipelago. There, the same barges began operating among three protected areas, expelling dense smoke that affected the health of local residents. In that case, the environmental license has been heavily criticized for overlooking constitutional laws and fishing regulations, prioritizing the use of Bunker 6, one of the most polluting and cheapest fuels, instead of natural gas.The PP has established with the energy patch plan a theory: energy confinement in Gran Canaria or blackout from the port of Las Palmas if coverage is not provided for the vessel. The port employers’ associations of Las Palmas will not oppose it.The silence of Karadeniz and the voice of the ExecutiveIt is anomalous in the business environment that a company with a multimillion-euro contract exceeding 200 million euros, which would be negotiated under exclusive technical conditions, does not explain itself to <strong:defend its sustainability or social benefits. Instead, the Canary Executive insists on the ‘extreme necessity’ of these platforms to prevent blackouts, minimizing the environmental risks already reported by experts in the Caribbean.In Azua, Dominican Republic, the director of the Institute of Lawyers for Environmental Protection, Euren Cuevas, is blunt: ‘They do not care about health, they want to make money’. The constant noise, vibrations, and discharge of hot water into the sea are realities that the company has not refuted with data, leaving local governments to bear the political cost of defending the project.A dangerous mirror for the islandsThe Dominican fishermen already report a decrease in fish catches and the residents of the Los Negros area suffer from night sweats due to nitrogen and sulfur emissions. If this model is transferred to the port of Las Palmas under the umbrella of ’emergency’, the archipelago faces the same dilemma: Health and sustainability or high-environmental-cost electric patches?The question lingers in the air of official venues: What interests lead the regional Government to act as a shield for a multinational that doesn’t even bother to explain how it will protect the Canary ecosystem? The ‘environmental crime scene’ described in the Dominican Republic is today the warning that Canary social platforms use to demand transparency in management that seems to favor the Turkish profit margin over the well-being of the islands.
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