Well TU are certainly getting a lot of publicity at the moment. I and several others will be at the meeting on thursday. Hope there is a good turnout.
From this week's Coastrider.
Residents ‘removed’ from Tecnologia building by police
Last week, residents of two different urbanisations in El Galan and Torrevieja contacted me to report that once again, their electricity had been cut off thanks to the failure of Tecnologia Urbanistica to pay its bills.
One group of residents, who live in the Macarena III urbanisation in the Torreta area of Torrevieja, descended on the Tecnologia headquarters in Torrevieja to demand their electricity be switched back on, and were subsequently asked to leave the building by two Policia Locale officers.
A spokesperson for the urbanisation told me: “There were fifteen of us including our President and Vice President, and we wanted to state our demands peacefully. This is the second time this has happened to us – the last time was in July. The electricity company, Iberdrola, confirmed that Tecnologia had failed to pay the bill, but Tecnologia blamed Iberdrola for not getting a fax confirmation that the bill had been paid. I think we were being a little loud, as there were people speaking Spanish around us and others trying to get their point of view across, but it was not aggressive in any way. There was a rather frosty moment when some people came into the building. They wore suits and looked quite senior, and one of them laughed. One of our residents told the man it was no laughing matter, being without electricity. At some point, someone at Tecnologia must have called the Police and we were asked to leave.
They allowed the president and vice-president, together with a Spanish speaker to remain. The rest of us had to walk up the pavement, away from the building altogether.”
She continued: “To be fair to Esther who works at Tecnologia, she did show confirmation that a fax had been sent to Iberdrola, but really this is of no concern to us. Our president and vice-president, plus two other people, spent the whole day to-ing and fro-ing between Tecnologia, Iberdrola, and we even called Atlas, the estate agent, because they sold most of our properties. Atlas did telephone Tecnologia and Iberdrola on our behalf and confirmed that our electricity would be back on by 9pm, which happened.”
The Macarena III representatives were told by Iberdrola that Tecnologia owes the company ‘an awful lot of money’.
Residents in El Galan also confirmed they had been told by Iberdrola that their electricity had been turned off due to non-payment of bills by Tecnologia. Both urbanisations are bracing themselves for November when they believe they will be cut off again unless urgent action is taken against Tecnologia.
These two urbanisations, and possibly countless others, will be represented at this week’s meeting, to be held by the PSOE opposition party. The meeting takes place at the Asturias Restaurant on the N332, this Thursday 20 September starting at 7pm.
The PSOE Party has invited those people affected by the developer Tecnologia Urbanistica to attend the meeting and present written and photographic evidence describing the nature of their problems, whether it is due to non receipt of deeds, electricity bill payments, illegal building, or abandoned sites that are blighting neighbourhoods.
The PSOE Party wants to understand the scale of the problems caused by this developer in order to make representations to the appropriate people both at the next Orihuela Town Hall plenary meeting and through the party’s Vega Baja representative in Valencia.
R Griffin