Bauza promises to Enforce their Weight in Madrid to Avoid Surveys

The President of the Balearic Government, José Ramón Bauzá, and those of the four insular consells staged yesterday putting up "a common front" to prevent campaigns from search for oil off the coast of Ibiza and Balears. 

At the fourth Conference of Presidents of this Parliament, the first being held in Ibiza, Bauza said that "without any doubt" will assert, as the PP regional baron, its weight to the leadership of his party to try to prevent prospecting, although he recalled that already did long ago he and his counterpart in the Valencian Community, Alberto Fabra. «More than one year ago. It is not any new news.

I will do everything to avoid it», stressed the President. To seal its commitment, the head of the autonomous Executive fell to the lobby of the headquarters of the Council to sign their allegations against the environmental impact study of the Cairn Energy project at the Gulf of Valencia, which will add to the more than 20,000 collected so far by the Alliance Mar Blava. 

So did the Presidents of the tips of Mallorca and Menorca, María Salom and Santiago Tadeo, who yesterday expressed his 'solidarity' with Ibiza against seismic campaign. Bauza stressed "strong rejection" of the Comunitat Autònoma against surveys and recalled that "the oil of the Islands is tourism". 

«No to go get oil because we already have it. We will defend it where is and maximum institutions.

We cannot put at risk our economy or the protection of the environment", he said, at the time that said it has already moved to the Government its opposition to the planned projects and to the Balearic Islands Minister of environment, Gabriel Company, will accompany the Presidents of Ibiza and Formentera on 11 February in Brussels to meet with European Commissioner for the environmentJanez Potocnik.