Costa Blanca
Dénia gas pipeline to Baleares to be put on hold for the tourist season
By m.p.
Mar 26, 2008 - 8:46 PM

Thousands of specialised tubes are piling up at the port in Alicante ahead of the start of the construction project this autumn to build a gas pipeline which will connect the mainland with the Balearic Islands from Dénia. Almost 22,000 concrete-enforced steel 22,000 tubes, each of them 12.2 metres long, have been arriving by road from Albacete, covering an area of more than 70,000 square metres at the port, to take gas over to the Baleares in a pipeline which will run along the sea bed for 267 kilometres.

Enagás is in charge of the project, and they have already started work preparatory to laying the pipeline itself. It’s being put on hold from May to avoid disrupting the tourist season on the Costa Blanca and the Balearics.

It’s a project which has caused some concern to the local fishing guild in Dénia, who say it will effectively cut their fishing grounds in half, and could mean a 30% loss in catch for fishing fleets along the coast.