"We cannot ask people in the context of the climate emergency to save water, consume less energy, etc., at the same time as the City Hall, without any concern, believes that it is the right time to make a macro-pool in the Ripoll River basin," said Joan Carles Sallas, member of the environmental association Adenc, as we read in La Directa. "The project includes a pool of between 5,000 and 6,000 square meters, which means a demand of more than 6,000 cubic meters of concrete and 20,000 square meters of pavement," he explained.

One week after the City Hall presented the project, the local movements of Aldenc and surrounding areas convened an open assembly in which more than 100 people participated. There was agreement on the creation of the Ripoll Defense Platform.

The Barcelona-Cunit Surf park project planned by the Basque company Wavegarden in Tarragona last December and the Sabadell project is planned to be carried out before the previous one, as they have gathered in La Vanguardia. It is the company that wants to set up a surf park in Donostia-San Sebastián.

For its part, the government team with the mayor of the PSC has said that this is an "absolutely sustainable" project. They emphasize that the water would circulate in a closed circuit and that the electricity supply would be made with solar panels and green energy. They added that the project would include city screening, sports tourism and 65 jobs.

The municipal government has announced that it will give the public land to the company for a period of forty years. That is why the president of the association, Adenc, believes that public land cannot be mortgaged with a project of EUR 14 million. In his view, if the project does not work, it will become a "graveyard" in which the public administration will have to solve what it has caused.