On Friday, the environmentalists GOB announced their annual Holly Oak and Cement Awards that are for positive and negative contributions to the environment, respectively.
Rafael Nadal was one recipient of the Cement. This was for "leveraging his influence to promote urban development projects and even enact laws tailored to his personal interests and businesses in exchange for promoting the island in his name."
Balearic president Marga Prohens was another in the Cement category. "The unprecedented step backwards in environmental and territorial protection on the islands through the administrative simplification decree law and so the amnesty for rural land, construction in risk areas, elimination of the Balearic Environment Commission, and the dismantling of the Popular Legislative Initiative for the Welfare of Future Generations. Prohens has focused her policy on rewarding offenders and favouring speculators, putting business before people's lives."
Among those to get the Holly Oak Award was the Menys Turisme Més Vida platform (Less Tourism More Life), which has organised various protests over the past year and is the coordinator of the demonstration to be held on June 15 calling for a better life and an end to touristification.
The Holly Oak winners were in attendance at the event at Can Tapera in Palma; the Cement winners were not.
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Organ WelshmanDaily Mail responds..
They awarded an award for being able to organising demonstrations. Embarrassingly low bar for most forgettable award ever.
Organ WelshmanI imagine that is a type of knee jerk click bait reply engineered to trigger reactions. If it represents your true feelings then can I invite you to leave the island I call my home and move to some urban / industrial sprawl far away where you can build build build to your hearts content. Their politics might not be to my taste but almost all these people are Mallorquin, and their heart is in the right place. GOB has been around for 50 + years and has some spectacular successes in saving areas of the Baleares from developers. Society needs groups like this who will speak truth to power.
Rafas Sportscenter is operating with a loophole in law. It is like hotel but no licence. Rooms have tennishour included. Sad that he has to do things on grey zone of the laws.
Left wing wasters with no jobs and nothing to do all day. I would take a cement award as a positive.