“The additions to the Strait Bridge project, requested during the services conference, will be provided within 30 days”. This was announced by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport led by Matteo Salvini. “This is the normal procedure and it is correct to delve into all aspects of a work that will be unique in the world”, underlines the MIT.
The request of the Minister of the Environment
“On Monday 15 April, within the deadline established by law, the Via-Vas Commission of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security approved and sent to the Ponte sull’Sretto di Messina spa company the request for additions to the request presented by this The last one was on February 26th”, announced the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto.
“With this request – adds the minister – the environmental impact assessment procedure relating to the work has been started, for the purposes of its updating and completion. The procedure started with the request of 26 February last is connected, for a on the other hand, to the one started in 2011 and, on the other hand, to the note that the Presidency of the Council of Ministers sent to the EU Commission on 8.11.2023, with some clarifications regarding the Via and the Vinca integration, which is a typical act of the first part of every environmental impact assessment procedure, account was also taken, as usual, of elements taken from the contributions of Ispra and non-public entities entitled, by law, to express themselves”, he concludes.
“Over 200 findings from the ministry, is Pichetto also an enemy of Italy?”
The opposition goes on the attack on the request for clarification made by the Ministry of the Environment. “We learn that the Ministry of the Environment has read the documents on the definitive project of Salvini’s Messina Bridge and has made more than 200 findings denouncing the lack of essential documents. When we denounced it, with a complaint and in Parliament, Minister Salvini accused us of being enemies of Italy, we wonder if at this point his colleague minister Pichetto Fratin is also one”, states the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein. “Evidently the Ministry of the Environment also confirms what not only the Democratic Party, but the associations and the territory have been saying for months: we are faced with a harmful, useless, expensive and uncertain project, about which experts raise enormous criticisms“.
“Salvini and Meloni no more commercials”
From a “boulder” that arrives “on the project of the Strait Bridge, with more than 200 requests for integration by the Ministry of the Environment, which correspond to as many gaps” is also the 5 Star leader Giuseppe Conte. “It is confirmation – he attacks – of what we announced yesterday in Messina, where I met representatives of associations and citizens who oppose the project. I explained our position: ours is not an ‘ideological’ no. It is the no of those who cannot accept that a national government, faced with the serious infrastructural deficiencies of Sicily and Calabria, responds with a propaganda slogan, with a old project, dating back to 2011/2012, full of engineering, environmental, transport and financial flaws. President Meloni, Minister Salvini – Conte then says, addressing the government leaders directly -: enough with the electoral commercials. Fewer promises and more seriousness in addressing Italy’s real problems.”
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