Elena Grandi
Verdi party spokesman
ENVIRONMENT & POISONS
- NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Ex-Ilva, another Taranto is possible. Italy must become the country that is not today
Verdi party spokesman
ENVIRONMENT & POISONS
- NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Ex-Ilva, another Taranto is possible. Italy must become the country that is not today
And if we were right, the Verdi (Greens), a small party that has been calling for the conversion of the former Ilva surrounded by a sea of indifference and hostility for years?
And if Angelo Bonelli was right, who has been fighting for a long time to transform the factory of death and field a path of ecological conversion?
And if all those were right, and we among those who preach that life should be chosen between the stock market and life? Another kind of life, of development, what bad word (in his name if they are combined with each, true Calenda?), Of a society perhaps, greener, fairer, more equitable?
What if market analysts are right about explaining that there is more steel around than they need? What is a supply surplus? Anyone who thinks of blackmail to restore "criminal immunity" is seriously mistaken. The calculation is cynically economic: two million euros a day in a global context of falling demand. It's the pure truth.
The facts, in their crudeness, are these: ArcelorMittal has decided to abandon the former Ilva, the largest steelworks in Europe which, between Taranto, Genoa and induced, employs about 10,700 workers. A disaster announced that the leaders of the multinational seek, as always in these circumstances, to download elsewhere:
- the lack of criminal immunity on the environmental level with the Business Decree, which had been converted into law for a few days;
- the risk of having the blast furnace 2 shut down due to the failure to adopt safety regulations and, for the same reasons, to follow blast furnaces 1 and 4;
- "the general climate of hostility" which makes company management impossible.
For these reasons the multinational steel company is called out of the management of the group and entrusts it to the commissioners, and therefore to the State. All stories, to put it mildly: immunity has never been eliminated.
Forgive the bureaucratic language: the decree law 1/2015 with the modifications introduced with the legislative decree 98/2016 establishes that, with regard to the tenant or the purchaser and to the functionally delegated subjects pursuant to art. 2 paragraph 6 last period of legislative decree 1/2015 and after the entry into force of the Dpcm (Decree of the Presidency of the Council of the Ministry) of 29 September 2017, the operation of the exemption, immunity, has a limit of 18 months from the approval of the Dpcm. In other words, the deadline is March 30, 2019. I repeat: March 30, and today we are at the beginning of November.
In Italy, I add, the magistrates do their job, which is to prosecute crimes and protect public health. If they are forced to intervene, it is due to the inaction of the policy that they prefer to turn their heads away or chase the impossible dream of a return to the twentieth century when the climatic emergency was only in Dei mind and Berlusconi a boy.
To get out of this dead end, once and for all, there is only one way: ...
And if Angelo Bonelli was right, who has been fighting for a long time to transform the factory of death and field a path of ecological conversion?
And if all those were right, and we among those who preach that life should be chosen between the stock market and life? Another kind of life, of development, what bad word (in his name if they are combined with each, true Calenda?), Of a society perhaps, greener, fairer, more equitable?
What if market analysts are right about explaining that there is more steel around than they need? What is a supply surplus? Anyone who thinks of blackmail to restore "criminal immunity" is seriously mistaken. The calculation is cynically economic: two million euros a day in a global context of falling demand. It's the pure truth.
The facts, in their crudeness, are these: ArcelorMittal has decided to abandon the former Ilva, the largest steelworks in Europe which, between Taranto, Genoa and induced, employs about 10,700 workers. A disaster announced that the leaders of the multinational seek, as always in these circumstances, to download elsewhere:
- the lack of criminal immunity on the environmental level with the Business Decree, which had been converted into law for a few days;
- the risk of having the blast furnace 2 shut down due to the failure to adopt safety regulations and, for the same reasons, to follow blast furnaces 1 and 4;
- "the general climate of hostility" which makes company management impossible.
For these reasons the multinational steel company is called out of the management of the group and entrusts it to the commissioners, and therefore to the State. All stories, to put it mildly: immunity has never been eliminated.
Forgive the bureaucratic language: the decree law 1/2015 with the modifications introduced with the legislative decree 98/2016 establishes that, with regard to the tenant or the purchaser and to the functionally delegated subjects pursuant to art. 2 paragraph 6 last period of legislative decree 1/2015 and after the entry into force of the Dpcm (Decree of the Presidency of the Council of the Ministry) of 29 September 2017, the operation of the exemption, immunity, has a limit of 18 months from the approval of the Dpcm. In other words, the deadline is March 30, 2019. I repeat: March 30, and today we are at the beginning of November.
In Italy, I add, the magistrates do their job, which is to prosecute crimes and protect public health. If they are forced to intervene, it is due to the inaction of the policy that they prefer to turn their heads away or chase the impossible dream of a return to the twentieth century when the climatic emergency was only in Dei mind and Berlusconi a boy.
To get out of this dead end, once and for all, there is only one way: ...
to resume the decree for Taranto that Angelo Bonelli presented to the Chamber of Deputies five years ago, on December 23, 2014, in continuity with what was proposed in October 2010: ecological conversion of the former Ilva. As they did in Germany, in the Ruhr coal basin, or in Pittsburgh or Bilbao, just to give some virtuous examples.
The decree provides for the procedure for the application of environmental damage (art. 300 of the environmental code) and the start of safety measures and reclamation in the Sin of Taranto, the revival of the economic and occupational activities of Taranto and its province with the No Tax Area, with a temporary support fund for agriculture and mussel farming, with urban and environmental redevelopment, transformation and regeneration projects starting from contaminated soils that must be restored.
European funds can be used to redevelop workers and reclaim land. The tools are there, just want to use them. And even the unions should have the courage to "convert" their battle: in the name of health and the right to life of workers and their families.
As for "the general climate of hostility" evoked by the top management, I do not want to make unnecessary controversy, but I limit myself to finding that in Taranto, unfortunately, it continues to die. And not only the workers die, but the boys and girls, women and men, constantly exposed to poisons. Not to mention the deaths at work, like the tragic death of a worker killed by a cast iron casting.
Already in January-February this year the data collected by Arpa Puglia tell of an increase of 195 percent of IPAs, 150% of benzene, 111% of hydrogen sulfide and increases of more than 20% for Pm10 and Pm2.5 compared to in the same months of 2018. How to say: the situation is not under control.
The climate emergency is not just a slogan. In Italy, little is done, very little, to avert it. In spite of the declarations of intent, not all honest in truth, the executive does not seem to have taken the right path. Neither Matteo Salvini and his henchmen, who have ruled this country for many years - too many, I add - have been able to do better. Rather. Not to mention Matteo Renzi and his predecessors to the Democratic Party.
The world has changed. It would be foolish and irresponsible to ignore anything: another world is possible, another economy is possible, another Taranto is possible. It is enough to push the eyes further, to try to imagine a future without resorting to electoral shortcuts like the good Renzi does, always hunting for easy consent. His promise, "I bring the new consortium", is the measure of his failure and of a whole managerial class.
Let us take advantage of the virtuous experiences we have just mentioned: let us convert the former Ilva into an advanced technological and research center, of culture, study and, above all, well-being and life. Italy must become the country that today is not: ecological, supportive, fair and with one foot in the future. We will never tire of repeating it.
IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO
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The decree provides for the procedure for the application of environmental damage (art. 300 of the environmental code) and the start of safety measures and reclamation in the Sin of Taranto, the revival of the economic and occupational activities of Taranto and its province with the No Tax Area, with a temporary support fund for agriculture and mussel farming, with urban and environmental redevelopment, transformation and regeneration projects starting from contaminated soils that must be restored.
European funds can be used to redevelop workers and reclaim land. The tools are there, just want to use them. And even the unions should have the courage to "convert" their battle: in the name of health and the right to life of workers and their families.
As for "the general climate of hostility" evoked by the top management, I do not want to make unnecessary controversy, but I limit myself to finding that in Taranto, unfortunately, it continues to die. And not only the workers die, but the boys and girls, women and men, constantly exposed to poisons. Not to mention the deaths at work, like the tragic death of a worker killed by a cast iron casting.
Already in January-February this year the data collected by Arpa Puglia tell of an increase of 195 percent of IPAs, 150% of benzene, 111% of hydrogen sulfide and increases of more than 20% for Pm10 and Pm2.5 compared to in the same months of 2018. How to say: the situation is not under control.
The climate emergency is not just a slogan. In Italy, little is done, very little, to avert it. In spite of the declarations of intent, not all honest in truth, the executive does not seem to have taken the right path. Neither Matteo Salvini and his henchmen, who have ruled this country for many years - too many, I add - have been able to do better. Rather. Not to mention Matteo Renzi and his predecessors to the Democratic Party.
The world has changed. It would be foolish and irresponsible to ignore anything: another world is possible, another economy is possible, another Taranto is possible. It is enough to push the eyes further, to try to imagine a future without resorting to electoral shortcuts like the good Renzi does, always hunting for easy consent. His promise, "I bring the new consortium", is the measure of his failure and of a whole managerial class.
Let us take advantage of the virtuous experiences we have just mentioned: let us convert the former Ilva into an advanced technological and research center, of culture, study and, above all, well-being and life. Italy must become the country that today is not: ecological, supportive, fair and with one foot in the future. We will never tire of repeating it.
IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO
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