«Drought in Sicily, the mountain gave birth to the mouse. In fact, the Meloni government finally declares a state of emergency but allocates only 20 million to deal with the emergency on the island. This Rome-Palermo axis – two centre-right governments – is a real misfortune for our island which, as it approaches one of the hottest and driest summer seasons in recent decades, in the total immobility of those sitting in Palazzo d’Orleans, like Schifani and he preceded him and is now Minister of Civil Protection.” This was declared by the secretary of the Sicily PD and member of the Chamber, Anthony Barbagallo, who presented an agenda on the subject, approved by the Chamber, which commits the government to financing the 27 projects identified by the extraordinary commissioner for drought for an amount of 829 million euros.
«But the responsibilities of the center-right – he continues – are obvious and it is worth reiterating: Musumeci is president, in fact, in 2021 when 31 projects, worth around 360 million in PNRR funds,
for the improvement of the irrigation sector were soundly rejected. While Schifani shows up hat in hand in Rome and only gets pennies when he should be beating his fists to obtain, in addition to the state of emergency, more resources and the financing of the 27 projects identified by the extraordinary commissioner for drought for an amount of 829 million EUR. Such a level of inadequacy – he concludes – that it was not possible to carry out an intervention at Ponte Barca, on the Simeto river, where for weeks tens of liters of water intended for irrigation have been lost per second due to a leak”.
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