Neighbors of Sant Antoni criticize the Ibiza Global Festival: "They pollute and privatize a public beach"

PalmaThe Salvem la badia de Portmany association has criticized the authorization granted to the Ibiza Global Festival to extend its programming from two to three days on the Arenal beach in Sant Antoni, because they consider that it "contaminates and privatizes a public beach". In a statement, the entity also calls on the City Council to stop authorizing and promoting massive events with music on the beaches and other natural spaces in the municipality.

The entity recalled that a year ago it requested the City Council not to allow these types of activities, considering that the high volume of music is detrimental to nature and biodiversity, as well as disturbing the neighbors. Nevertheless, it maintains, far from being reduced, these events "are enhanced" with municipal support, as in the case of the expansion of the Ibiza Global Festival, which begins this Friday and has gone from taking place over two days last year to three in this edition.

Salvem la badia warns that the festival will once again generate a significant environmental impact due to noise and light pollution, as well as the massive consumption of food and drinks on the beach, and considers it contradictory that the City Council promotes projects linked to sustainability while authorizing this type of event in natural spaces. The entity has emphasized that Sant Antoni already has a wide range of leisure activities linked to electronic music, with nightclubs and beach clubs and which, furthermore, represents a "privatization de facto" of a public beach in an "environmentally sensitive" area.