“Good things are done together, one of Mayor Lattuca’s favorite electoral proclamations, adapts very well to the story of the ‘Adriatic line’ methane pipeline in its Cesena section. Yes because, since this was a ‘bad thing’, the mayor preferred to do it himself.” Thus begins the letter from Maria Grazia Gardelli, candidate for the city council with Cesena Sia Noi and president of the “No Tubo Romagna” Committee.
At the center of the letter is the Snam gas pipeline, the maxi-work that will cross the municipal territory of Cesena for approximately 19 kilometres, starting from Borello and passing through San Carlo, Roversano (where the gas pipeline will cross the Savio river in two sections), San Vittore, Sette Crociari, Diegaro up to the hamlet of Provezza. A topic on which, in the last city council meeting, Mayor Lattuca himself spoke, announcing some news.
“No availability for serious discussions to ask for guarantees to protect the territory devastated by the events of last May, as requested by the NoTubo Romagna committee and by individual citizens – writes Gardelli – and no sharing on the thirty denarii, sorry, 950,000 euros made available by Snam to the Municipality as ‘compensation’. The municipal administration decides that this ‘compensation’ be budgeted for works benefiting other areas of the municipality, totally ignoring the citizens damaged by Snam. Bad decision.” On the subject, the Cesena Noi Noi municipal councilor Denise Parise had also underlined, both in the Commission and in the City Council, the singular dislocation of the funds in areas far from those actually interesting for the work.
According to Gardelli “the municipal administration has once again missed the opportunity to do the right thing. That is, convene citizens and the committee and think about the best ways to use these resources.”
“And let’s be clear – clarifies the exponent of the No Tubo Committee – it is not the badly spent amount of these four pennies that hurts. None of the Cesena residents subjected to forced expropriations know what to do with Snam’s handouts. What hurts is the contempt towards the people of Cesena who had the audacity to defend everyone’s territory and environment at their expense and for this reason they are ignored and silenced. The city administration has once again missed the opportunity to do the right thing. It missed the opportunity – concludes Maria Grazia Gardelli – to be remembered as the administration that knows how to stand alongside its fellow citizens, with a straight back, with the courage of other Italian municipalities, Sulmona first and foremost, who perhaps have more clarity than ours what it means to be the outpost and voice of the people they are meant to represent.”
