For the Via, the effects on Natura 2000 sites and land use
The Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security requested 239 document additions from the Stretto di Messina SpA company, as part of the evaluation of the Bridge project.
For the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), 155 additions were requested.
Another 66 additions were requested for the Impact Assessment (Vinca), which verifies the consequences of a work on Natura 2000 sites, the protected sites of EU interest. For the Land Use Plan (Put) 16 additions were requested, for the Verification of Compliance (Vo) 2. This can be read on the website of the Via-Vas del Mase Commission.
The requests for integration of documents were made by the Technical Commission for Environmental Impact Verification – Via e Vas del Mase. They are contained in a 42-page document signed by the coordinator of Subcommission VIa, Paola Brambilla.
The ministry asks the Strait of Messina to explain the compatibility of the project with the updates of the environmental and landscape constraints and the territorial planning tools. It also requests a more in-depth analysis of the costs and benefits of the work and a summary of all the planned interventions, “not limiting itself to just the list of changed works”, we read in the document.
Mase complains that Strait of Messina “does not describe the construction site system, limiting itself to the list of construction site areas” and has not provided sufficient information on the management and disposal of excavated earth and rocks. The client is asked for “an updated and consistent picture” of the “tsunami hazard conditions” and the updating of air quality estimates during the construction and operational phases.
Mase wants clearer and more complete data on the impact of the works on the marine environment, on surface watercourses, on groundwater, and cites in particular the area of the Pantani di Ganzirri, in Sicily. Supplements are requested on land consumption, on geological studies and on the risks of subsidence and instability, on the effects of the Bridge on agricultural activities, on noise on land and underwater, on vibrations and electromagnetic fields.
Mase wants more data on risks to biodiversity, flora and fauna, landscape and public health. The ministry then makes 66 requests for clarification on all the possible consequences of the Bridge on the sites of the Natura 2000 Network, the areas recognized as being of environmental value on the basis of the EU Habitats Directive.
The Mase also considers the documentation on the Land Use Plan (Put) to be insufficient and makes 16 requests for integration on the matter.
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