The Minister of Sustainability, Environment and Blue Economy and spokesman for the Andalusian Government, Ramon Fernández Pacheco, indicated on Wednesday that the new concession had been processed before the Consortium de Guadalquivir Hydrographics (CHG) to operate snow production cannons in the Sierra Nevada ski area. The resort in Granada is “completely sustainable” as the water “when the snowmelt arrives returns to the river bed.”
“It does not leave the circle” that defines the same water cycle managed by CHG, as Fernandez Pacheco pointed out, in the press conference after the meeting of the Andalusian Government Council, when journalists asked him about this request of Cetursa, the public company that manages the winter station located in Monachil, In the Granada urban area.
“It is not about providing more water for human consumption” nor “irrigating anything at all” nor “detracting from the ecosystem at all,” noted the Minister of Sustainability, who in any case emphasized that “the greatest threat to the Sierra and to the state of Nevada “It will, like all regions or regions of Andalusia, suffer from drought and climate change.”
“We can get all the water concessions in the world to inject into artificial snow cannons which, if there is an ‘eleven or twelve degree temperature’ in the ski resort, will have no benefit at all, because when the snow falls, it goes away,” Fernandez added. Pacheco: “Far away. “It ends up melting.”
This “worries” the Andalusian government since the ski resort “is part of the major contribution to the GDP not only of Granada but of the whole of Andalusia”, which is why the council wants the Sierra Nevada “to continue to be this great ski resort” of southern Europe. .
In this context, a council spokesman explained that this proposal for a larger water concession would be analyzed by the CHG, highlighting that it “would have all the environmental benefits if granted.”
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