GESA wants to build a new power
station at Son Reus (14/11/2000)
Yesterday, Monday 13, the Balearic President, Francesc
Antich, received the president of GESA, Bartomeu Reus at the Consolat
de la Mar. The latter declared at the end of the meeting that
he had informed President Antich about the possible rise in the
cost of energy on the Islands by some 40%, due to the "liberalisation"
of the energetic market and the fusion Endesa-Iberdrola. Both
Antich and Reus agreed to claim from the central government norms
and investment to counteract the insular condition.
GESA, a company that belongs to the Grupo Endesa Iberdrola, that produces and distributes "exclusively" the electric energy for the Balearics, is negotiating the authorisation to build a new power centre at Son Reus, next to the Incinerator plant.
The GOB has asked the Balearic Government
not to authorise the new power station. The ecologists consider
that it is not logical to authorise the construction of a new
power station while the Govern is negotiating the Sectorial Directive
for Energy of the Balearics. According to the GOB, the new power
station at Son Reus, which will have 4 50 metre chimneys, visible
from many parts of the Island, would represent an increase of
26% of the electrical power on Mallorca. According to the ecological
association "it seems to be a flagrant contradiction that
while Mallorca negotiates this project, in the Hague, in the Summit
about Climatic Change, they are discussing measures to be taken
to reduce the emission of contaminants into the atmosphere."