PeaceLink English

Press release of the CNSC National Supervision of Contaminated Sites

Land reclamation. The miracle of the Renzi government, 74.000 acres of new industrial areas in Sardinia and thousands in other parts of Italy!

The Law-Decree n. 91 approved last Tuesday is only a benefit to the army, as they get the limits for soil pollution increased by 100 times.
June 28, 2014
28 June 2014
Coordinamento Nazionale Siti Contaminati
Source: Press release of the CNSC National Supervision of Contaminated Sites - 28 June 2014

The Renzi government apparently multiplies the industrial areas of the country, but the real goal is not to create jobs but to cover the soil contamination of the military areas, raising legal pollution limit by 100 times.

The decree, tragically named "Protected Environment" by the Minister of the Environment, Mr Galletti, criminally wipes the state of contamination of the military areas of the country clean. Tens of thousands of hectares distributed throughout the country, occupied by military polygons, training camps, barracks, where activities that may have released hazardous substances have been carried out for decades (think of the continuous blasting of charges in polygons) are now treated as industrial areas for which the law prescribes thresholds of contamination much higher.

Indeed the decree states that military areas should refer to the limits of column B of the table relative to the threshold of soil contamination of Legislative Decree 152/2006, which refers to industrial areas, and not in column A, the one with the limits for residential and green areas.

To give an example, the threshold of Cobalt for green areas is of 20 mg/kg while for industrial areas is 250 mg/kg, more than 10 times higher. The limit of polycyclic aromatic compounds (including several toxic and / or carcinogenic elements) for industrial areas is higher than 100 times (1 mg/kg vs. 100 mg / kg). Benzene, a first class carcinogen, has a higher than twenty times limit (0.1 mg/kg versus 2 mg/kg). For tetrachlorethylene, another suspected carcinogen and toxic to the liver, the limit is 40 times higher.

All these new limits refer to areas that often appear as green areas covered by Mediterranean scrub and woodland! Think of Capo Teulada and Quirra (Perdasdefogu) in Sardinia or in Monte Romano in Lazio (12.300 acres large!).

The decree will prevent the alienation of military areas in favor of regions and municipalities that require them for civilian uses because otherwise it would be expected to refer to Table A, the one with the more stringent limits. Who will be then so unwise to propose to spend hundreds of millions of euro for environmental remediation in the presence of a law that sets much higher limits and without spending a euro?

CNSC National Supervision of Contaminated Sites

National Forum of Free Water Movements

Stop biocide in Lazio - Stop biocide in Abruzzo

Notes: Translated in English by Marco Schnabl
Licence: Public Domain

Articoli correlati

  • La catena dell'impunità
    Disarmo
    Guerre di Israele e nostre complicità

    La catena dell'impunità

    Inchiesta sulla storia degli armamenti israeliani e sulle complicità dell'Occidente e dell'Italia nella guerra condotta ai danni della popolazione civile in Palestina
    12 March 2024 - Rossana De Simone
  • L'estrema destra israeliana in guerra contro Gaza e Cisgiordania
    Disarmo
    Evidente dimostrazione di due pesi e due misure

    L'estrema destra israeliana in guerra contro Gaza e Cisgiordania

    La risposta iniziale di Israele all'attacco è stata quella di interrompere tutta l'elettricità, il cibo, le medicine e l'acqua nell'intera area. Nessuno stato può fare queste cose a un altro stato, ma può farlo a un territorio che circonda e domina.
    1 November 2023 - Rossana De Simone
  • Industria bellica S.p.A.: come fabbricare la guerra infinita
    Disarmo
    La cooperazione UE-NATO è un pilastro fondamentale della stabilità e della sicurezza europea

    Industria bellica S.p.A.: come fabbricare la guerra infinita

    La guerra sotto forma di necessità economica fa sicuramente bene ai rendimenti azionari dei maggiori appaltatori della difesa a livello mondiale
    18 April 2023 - Rossana De Simone
  • La nuova deterrenza nucleare: folle corsa al riarmo convenzionale e nucleare
    Disarmo
    rinuncia al principio del "non primo uso" dell'arma nucleare

    La nuova deterrenza nucleare: folle corsa al riarmo convenzionale e nucleare

    i Paesi dotati di armi nucleari puntano a modernizzare gli arsenali e ad aumentare il numero di testate
    LA NATO considera impossibile l’adesione all’Alleanza e contemporaneamente al TPNW
    19 February 2023 - Rossana De Simone
PeaceLink C.P. 2009 - 74100 Taranto (Italy) - CCP 13403746 - Sito realizzato con PhPeace 2.7.15 - Informativa sulla Privacy - Informativa sui cookies - Diritto di replica - Posta elettronica certificata (PEC)