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
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: ...
