IU asks the Government of Aragon to explain “the gap of 12 million” in the cable car between Astún and Candanchú.

Spokesman Álvaro Sanz believes that the infrastructure paid with public funds “is the execution of an environmentally unsustainable and unnecessary aberration”.
Izquierda Unida Aragón reiterates its rejection of the union of ski resorts of Astún and Candanchú by a cable car and questions the budget gap of the project presented yesterday in Huesca.
It should be remembered that, as the regional Executive explained yesterday, the cost of this cable transport infrastructure will be higher than initially planned for the regional coffers, which will have to assume with their own funds 22 million Euros for an infrastructure that will have a final cost of 35 million Euros.
Of these, 10 million will come from European funds and 3 million from the Huesca Provincial Council.
As for the cost of the project, the general coordinator of IU Aragón and spokesman in the Cortes, Álvaro Sanz, asked a parliamentary question to the Executive regarding the amount of the same and the latter answered that it would assume with its own funds an amount of 10 million.
“We do not know the reason for this budgetary gap and we believe that the Government of Aragon should explain where it intends to get those 12 million euros and how it will affect the public coffers,” said Alvaro Sanz, to regret that the PP Government, as did the socialist, “put all the eggs in the basket of snow with a project of zero social and environmental profitability, socially contested and criticized by environmental experts.
On the other hand, Izquierda Unida does not believe that the final objective of this infrastructure is, as the authorities said yesterday in their presentation, to “deseasonalize” tourism in the Aragon Valley, diversify tourist activities beyond the winter and revive the local economy.
“The cable car that will link Astún and Candanchú is not an isolated infrastructure, it is the execution of an environmentally unsustainable aberration, unnecessary and not supported by all the people who live in that part of the Pyrenees, as they want us to believe,” concludes Sanz who defends investments in the territory but that these “do not depend monoculture of snow linked, as we see, to urban speculation with thousands of apartments projected in Astún and Jaca.”
Source https://www.eldiario.es/aragon/iu-pide-gobierno-aragon-explique-desfase-12-millones-telecabina-astun-candanchu_1_11662961.amp.html