Environmental impact of the port of Granadilla: from failing to comply with EU Directives to imperative public interest
Abstract
The port of Granadilla de Abona in Tenerife (the first new plant built in Spain since 2012), is the most guarded of the Spanish port network after being one of the works that has received the most environmental protests in the history of the European Union. Its inauguration in 2018, fourteen years late and after three hundred million euros of public investment, entailed a reduction of two thirds on its initial dimensions and the implementation of novel measures to offset the expected environmental impact, including the creation of a permanent scientific observatory. The analysis carried out in this article of the effect that the port and the works have generated on the natural environment of the area, indicates that the forecasts of the expected environmental impact on the three elements that generated the greatest social alarm during their planning were not correct, with an error of more than 90% in the calculation of the accumulation of sand that its installation would produce, as well as maintaining the seagrass meadows that were believed to disappear and without causing the announced tipping on the beaches of the area.
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