La Palma Reconstruction Updates

Tierra Bonita file complaint over INVOLCAN not publishing monitoring data - First microorganisms identified in the 2021 lava tubes - New civil protection planning guidelines - Positive results from CO2 extraction tests in Puerto Naos - The lava deltas as a living laboratory - Conflict over releasing list of volcano aid recipients - 32% of affected farms have been rebuilt - New tool to rack public housing development progress - Deadlines requested for school reconstructions...

INVOLCAN refuses to publish real time monitoring data - More homes authorised for return in Puerto Naos and La Bombilla - New volcano public educational programme - Possible link between radon emissions and ground deformation - CO2 depressurisation system tested - Appeal to compensate those in the proposed protected area of the volcano - €3.4 million for affected businesses - New office for urban planning and reconstruction - Meeting to finalise agricultural recovery plans -...

New project to address volcanic risk - Granadilla offers talks on self-protection during volcanic eruptions - CO2 sensors to be installed in more homes - €111 million saved from income tax rebates - Alternatives proposed for the draft land protection bill - LP-2 works said to be legally well-founded - 100 new subsidised homes almost ready to begin construction - La Palma appears in lonely planet recommendations - Future university for La Palma announced, with...

Demand for more transparency from INVOLCAN - La Palma hosts new international volcanology course - More aid for self-employed works - €1.24 billion from the state in total so far - Aid extension for farmers affected by the volcano - More than half of second home payments processed - Reconstruction of CEIP La Laguna begins - Public consultation begins about National Park Expansion - Two-year extension for Tazacorte reconstruction projects - Las Manchas proposed as...

€1.3 million for security and emergencies - Participatory process for new Volcanic Risk Action Plan - New images show marine recovery - Spanish Government advances infrastructure funds - Debates over 60% income tax reduction and 25% financing from the Canary Islands Government - Extension for aid for affected farmers - €150,000 for fishing recovery - New protected volcanic areas announced - New estimates for agricultural recovery costs - Participatory process for monument designs for the...

Faults identified during the eruption continue to 'creep' - New eruption forecasting methods from La Palma highlighted by UNDRR - Students participate in water quality measurements - More than 1,100 families now returned to Puerto Naos and La Bombilla - Aid for second homes starting to be delivered - €400,000 for home construction in Los Llanos - Demands for aid from the 'Volcano Law' - Ongoing aid for affected businesses - LP-2 reconstruction commences with...

National Volcanology Centre Headquarters will be in La Palma - Gas extraction pipe installed in Puerto Naos - €1.2 billion spent by Spain on reconstruction - €100 million aid for lost farms - Income tax reduction extended until 2027 - LP-2 road reconstruction begins after delays - Protests from residents in the 'red zone' - New building acquired for housing for those who lost their homes - Access tracks created to more isolated neighbourhoods -...

GeoTenerife presents latest projects on La Palma - New 'disaster learning community' established on La Palma - International Tajogaite Eruption Conference brings volcanologists to La Palma - New biodiversity recovery study by CSIC - ISvolcan health impact study continues - Aid for farmers agreed - 32% in squalor in La Palma were affected by the eruption - Access to 40 new plots of land

Canary Islands 'Volcano Law' published - Subsurface pressure tests in Puerto Naos - La Palma awarded for ISVOLCAN health project - Latest Reconstruction Statistics Published - Results from Radon exposure tests in Puerto Naos - Tajogaite Reconstruction Conference in November - LP-211 road reopens - Geothermal Energy Project Updates - Citizens Demand Public Hazard Map for La Palma - Calls to Extend 60% Income Tax Reductions - New Studies on Earthquakes Preceding the Eruption

Volcanic emergency drill takes place in Tenerife - New internal 'map' of Tajogaite - Marine recovery continues - Results published on health impacts of the eruption - Progress of National Volcanology Centre - 60% income tax discount delay - LP-2 reconstruction progress - Volcano Law approved by Canary Islands Government

Military personnel involved in eruption request health monitoring - Canary Islands Government completes primary home aid payments - Controversy over 'promised' €100 million from Spain - new geothermal tenders - €6 million more from the state for reconstruction - Reconstruction agreement for La Laguna School - LP-2 reconstruction remains delayed - Concerns over construction practices - Legal appeal to get PEVOLCA recordings

Cabildo demands Spanish Govt make reconstruction commitments - New aid for neighborhood associations and renewable energy systems - Demand for transparency over agricultural aid - New website to monitor the reconstruction progress - grants for new homes for those affected - container homes being re-used in Puerto Naos - Tender for 120 new homes - Puerto Naos school reopening - Volcano law nearing approval in Canarian Parliament

New coastal recovery project - More access in Puerto Naos - New scientific articles on road reconstruction - €65 million owed to La Palma from Spanish Govt. - 'Volcano' Law processing updates - Request form transparency over agricultural aid - 53 new houses for those affected - Office for reconstruction set up - Spanish royals visit La Palma

New study on failures of 'Neoliberal' reconstruction model in La Palma - 'Lava Bombs' documentary shown at Mt. Etna Observatory - Debates over €100 million from Spain for 2024 and the 60% income tax reduction in La Palma - Difficulties in reconstructing the LP-2 and LP-211 roads - 34 houses planned for those affected - Mass demonstrations against the Canaries' unsustainable tourism model - Spanish King and Queen visit La Palma - GENESIS project presented...

GeoTenerife in roundtable TV discussion about Lava Bombs documentary – Debates over the 60% income tax reduction on La Palma - €100 million from Spain for 2024 still not arrived - Puerto Naos school reopening in September - LP-2 reconstruction close to starting - La Laguna School to be rebuilt - La Palma's recent eruptions have been dated - The magmatic system may have reactivated 10-15 years before the 2021 eruption - Tierra Bonita demand...

LP-2 reconstruction remains complex and delayed – The recovery of the LP-2 road across the lava flows between Tajuya and Las Manchas is still yet to move forward despite government assurances, drawing criticism from opposition political parties. Aid beneficiaries will not be made public – The Canary Islands Government has approved a motion that those who have received aid related to the volcanic eruption will be kept private to protect their privacy. However, some parties...

701 out of 1,298 homes affected by the volcano have been paid for – Nieves Lady Barrato, Presidential Advisor in the Government of the Canary Islands. Government approves new National Hazard surveillance plan – The Government Council of Ministers has approved a National Plan for the Surveillance of Seismic, Volcanological and Geophysical Phenomena, prepared by IGN. Progress of the “Volcano Law” - Proposed amendments to the “Volcano Law” from the main political parties, which is...

The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife has requested that the new Spanish National Volcanology Centre should be based across both Tenerife and La Palma. Pedro Sánchez, President of the Spanish Government, has announced more aid for those affected by the eruption from the Spanish Government. The documentary “On the Record: Chronicles of Ash and Lava” has premiered in El Paso. The first banana harvest from a reconstructed banana plantation on the 2021 lava flows...

• IGN has installed new sensors in Puerto Naos, bringing the total number of sensors in the network to close to 2,000. • The Cabildo de La Palma have delivered aid to families who have been affected by a fraud relating to the reconstruction of new homes. • A controversial miniseries ‘La Palma’ has been released on Netflix, following a fictional family caught up in a volcanic disaster on La Palma

•Homelessness on La Palma increases since the Tajogaite eruption in 2021, likely due to a lack of social housing on the island and the lack of response from the authorities to help this. • Genesis project El agua y yo competition announced by GeoTenerife at the La Palma Science Week event. • Residents of Puerto Naos and La Bombilla are eligible for a new round of aid up to €2,000 for damage to household goods in...