Nature is now taking its own course on Tauro Beach, La Provincia, has today published the latest in the debacle that is the Anfi Tauro Beach project. The Canary News which is the English language paper in Gran Canaria, has also published the news on their website.
The warnings that were given about the nature of the tides and waves by locals have come to life, a huge chunk of the beach has now been washed away, revealing what is left of the original pebble beach.
The project to create an artificial beach involved importing 70,000 tonnes of sand from the Western Sahara, this was laid after the old pebble beach was removed. It was also laid without first being treated, this say environmentalists, could cause problems due to invasive species being in the sand. It has already had some detrimental effects on the marine area that is protected which is only 300 meters away.
It is now only 5 months since Anfi stated that work was now completed and weeks after the announcement that Anfi was to lose the concession and rights to run the beach for profit over the next 50 years. This was announced by the Canarian Government with the initial proceedings taking place at the Court of San Bartolome de Tirajana.
The beach has been closed to the public since work began and is still fenced off. Canary News also makes reference in their article about the major investigation being conducted for “corruption investigation and accusations of impropriety at the highest levels of the Canarian Coastal Authority”. We have already seen one prosecution of the former head of the authority and are just waiting for the court to complete the trial. The Mayor of Mogan is also currently under investigation and it remains to be seen how many more people end up being prosecuted.
Back in August, we saw the homes of the local people being flooded which ended up with a barrier being built to protect homes from flooding again, now with the sand being washed away, what of the remaining beach, after all we have not yet seen the winter storms or very high tides yet.
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