Politics is moving at a national and regional level on the reclamation front of the former industrial area of Crotone. After the letter from the open committee “Poisons out. Crotone wants to live” to the parliamentarians, the first to respond, with official documents, was Angelo Bonelli – deputy of the Green and Left Alliance – who yesterday morning presented a question to the Minister of the Environment on the attempt of Eni Rewind, through the launch of a new Services Conference, to remove the constraint that obliges it to take the hazardous waste resulting from the reclamation of POB Phase 2 out of the Calabria region so as to leave it in Crotone.
In the document, Bonelli asks “if the Minister does not deem it necessary to adopt acts within its competence so that the MASE in the Services Conference of 06/17/2024 opposes the request by Eni Rewind to proceed with the revocation of the commitment burdening it to dispose of the special dangerous industrial waste of Crotone outside the territory of the Calabria region and so that, after years of omissive conduct, the defined Plan is promptly implemented (DM n°7 of 3 March 2020) and the reclamation and repair interventions of environmental damage in the SIN CCC”.
An ad hoc Regional Council
The PD group in the Regional Council has filed the request for the convening of an ad hoc Regional Council meeting. The request to deal with the point “Reclamation of the former industrial area of Crotone” was signed by the dem group leader Mimmo Bevacqua, by all the regional councilors of the Democratic Party, by the M5s group leader Davide Tavernise and by the Misto group leader Antonio Lo Schiavo and was deposited at the offices of Palazzo Campanella on Tuesday. Now the president of the Regional Council Filippo Mancuso, according to the regulation, will have 20 days from receipt of the request to proceed with the convocation of the Assembly,
“We can no longer waste time – explain the Dem councilors in a press note – and it is necessary to take every most appropriate political and institutional initiative, including by modifying the parts of the Regional Waste Management Plan, and to oppose it within the Conference of the services of 17 June 2024, to the request made by Eni Rewind to proceed with the revocation of the commitment burdening the same to dispose of the industrial hazardous waste of Crotone outside the territory of the Calabria region so that, having already passed many years in vain, it proceeds with the effective disposal of Crotone’s industrial hazardous waste outside the territory of the Calabria region to protect the health of Crotone and Calabrian citizens and the environment and the territory of Crotone and Calabria”.
The situation in Crotone risks resulting in a real emergency and the dem group wants the Regional Council to take responsibility for finding a solution. “It is also necessary – the Dems still say – for the governor and his majority to clarify and say clearly what the junta’s intentions are regarding the matter”.
