La Palma Reconstruction Updates

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...

Los Llanos de Aridane City Council and the Cabildo de La Palma have met with residents of Todoque to listen to their requirements and inform them on the reconstruction of the neighbourhood, which was completely destroyed by the lava flow. The Spanish Minister for Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has stated that currently €1.046 billion has arrived in La Palma related to the 2021 eruption. II Vulcana Symposium in Tenerife took place...

The church charity Caritas has announced it has helped 3,400 victims of the eruption since it began in 2021. On the 3rd anniversary of the eruption, two marches took place organised by the Platform for Affected People containing hundreds of citizens, protesting against the reconstruction process on La Palma. IGN organises IAVCEI meeting in La Palma. La Palma waits for €100 million in aid guaranteed from the Government of Spain for 2024 for the reconstruction...

On the 13th August, the security protocol for CO2 emissions was activated for 42 homes in Puerto Naos. Media outlets have been criticised for seeding panic in local populations, as they incorrectly conflated the increase in CO2 emissions with a reactivation of the volcanic system. Cracks appear on the La Laguna Las Norias road suspected to have been caused by the heat, cooling, contraction and settling of the lava flows. Lava Bombs: The Reconstruction Documentary...

GeoInterns undertake new research on La Palma – GeoTenerife’s annual GeoIntern Cohort spent July undertaking new collaborative research on Tenerife and La Palma with CSIC, IGN and the University of Florida. Furlough – The latest figures show that 212 workers from 96 companies remain on furlough following a disruption to their employment activities from the volcanic eruption. Cost of infrastructure reconstruction – The latest statistics from the Los Llanos de Aridane City Council show that...

Lack of permanent housing solutions – An editorial by Tierra Bonita has highlighted again the extended wait for permanent housing solutions for those affected by the authorities. GeoTenerife and GNS in La Palma – A team of scientists from GNS Science in New Zealand have been collaborating with on fieldwork in La Palma with GeoTenerife. The work aims to better understand some of the lava flow dynamics of the eruption. Perspective of improvements in emergency...

No more in hotels – The last of the affected residents being housed in hotels following the eruption have left. Lava Bombs 2 Showing on La Palma - The documentary Lava Bombs 2, co-produced by GeoTenerife, was shown in the Multicines Milennium Cinema in Los Llanos de Aridane. Reconstruction law approved – The Reconstruction Law for post-eruption recovery of the island has been approved by the Parliament of the Canary Islands.