Nuclear: Nicita (Pd), ‘no to waste storage in the province of Trapani’

Rome, 2 May. “My closeness to the people of Trapani who took to the streets today to say no to the national radioactive waste repository. It is unthinkable that an area like that of the province of Trapani, naturally suited to tourism and agriculture, could be transformed into a nuclear waste dump.” Thus the senator of the Democratic Party and candidate for the European elections, Antonio Nicita, absent from today’s demonstration in Trapani due to institutional commitments in Rome, reiterates his position against the decision of the Joint Stock Nuclear Plant Management Company (Sogin) to locate Calatafimi in the province of Trapani -Segesta and Trapani, the only two sites suitable in all of Sicily to host 92,000 cubic meters of nuclear waste and other radioactivity.

“I would have liked to be in the square today with the citizens and local administrators – continues Nicita – but above all with the hundreds of young people who decided to join the protest. The mayor of Trapani Giacomo Tranchida did well to involve the schools: the future belongs to the new generations, who must be increasingly aware of the real risks that their land runs. A land made up of beautiful landscapes, natural reserves and excellent crops cannot accept becoming the dustbin of Italy”.

“As a PS group in the Senate – continued Nicita – we will do everything to make our voice heard with Sogin, wholly owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. It is absurd that the top management of the company has decided to leave both Segesta and Fulgatore in the list of suitable sites for the storage of waste, despite the observations of unsuitability represented by the respective Municipalities”. “The actors of the productive and social world of Trapani are doing well to protest, the students are right to take to the streets, the local administrators are right to forcefully reiterate their ‘No’ to nuclear waste storage. The places belong to those who live there every day, no one is allowed to come from above and decide the fate of an entire population. We will put all our strength into play to ensure this doesn’t happen.”