the criticisms of the 5 Star Movement

“The powerful spill of leachate from the controversial Cava Fornace landfill, managed by Pogramma Ambiente Apuane spa, which we had to witness yesterday is yet another demonstration of the inaction of “decided” politics in the face of issues such as environmental protection” on the case Cava Fornace, the 5 Star Movement of Massa also intervenes: “For years, many, even the M5S has been asking to close that landfill because it is located in an unsuitable area, in a karst area, therefore “draining” right above a aquifer that supplies the whole of Versilia and a tributary of Lake Porta, a UNESCO-Natura 2000 protected site. Now faced with what has happened, due to negligence, lack of controls or a natural event, it doesn’t matter at this moment, what they have to say Will the “deciding” politician take responsibility for not having closed that site despite the scientific evidence, for having dawdled and indeed taken into consideration the possibility of granting the doubling of the capacity of that landfill, put forward by the company that manages it? ?Now to all those “resistant” citizens who have been fighting for years for a policy that recognizes their right to live, and let their future generations live, in a healthy environment, which consciously deals with the prevention of both environmental and of health, closely related, what will you answer?” This is the bitter reflection of Riccardo Ricciardi, deputy and vice-president of the M5S “In 2021 I presented a question to the Massa administration,” adds Luana Mencarelli, provincial coordinator at the time councilor “concerned by PAA spa’s request to be able to winter directly in the public sewer system the leachate produced, in derogation of the obligation to dispose of it as special dangerous waste, was even required to increase the concentration threshold values ​​of the dangerous elements because the law in its current state would not have allowed it. The data from the analyzes carried out. by Arpat demonstrated that some of these elements were present in the leachate far above the permitted thresholds: sulphates, but also many other dangerous pollutants, such as iron-manganese-trichlormethane-chlorides and fluorides, greatly exceeded them and the Gaia purifier it was not suitable for the treatment of this collection, the waters of which end up in the sea. Now that all that leachate has been absorbed by the environmental matrices and partly diverted to the Gaia purifier, what will be the resulting problems?” he asks. “This is the political result of wanting to keep alive activities that are harmful or dangerous for the environment because someone works there or because they pour money into municipal budgets, but no one ever clarifies what the social costs are that we all have to pay for these wicked choices. The Meloni government itself is leading the way: hitting environmentalists harder and leaving those who produce alone, no matter what, in fact: after a disastrous past, a beautiful future awaits our territory” concludes Ricciardi.