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INVESTMENTS IN RAILWAY PHOTOVOLTAIC IN CERANO: FOR THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT BRINDISI IS A “NODE” AND NOT THE PROTAGONIST OF A PRODUCTION CHAIN. WHAT VISION FROM LOCAL INSTITUTIONS?
Any investment that can be foreseen for the city and the territory of Brindisi is to be considered a godsend and every single investment for the Union can only be considered positive as it brings jobs, the economy and social well-being. For these reasons, Minister Salvini’s announcement on the desire to make Brindisi – and the Cerano area in particular – an important node in the production chain of photovoltaic panels for the railway network is considered by the Union to be a non-negligible novelty.
We do not deny that due to the size and value that the Enel-Cerano affair represents, we would have expected Brindisi to be able to host the entire production-assembly-logistics chain of the sector while on the contrary we learn that this investment will be shared with the Catania. We are forced to settle by taking note that Brindisi is considered by the Italian Government to be a “node”, not a territory capable of giving itself its own, autonomous identity, characterizing the Green Transition.
We hope that Minister Salvini’s announcement will materialize even if we know well the distance that exists between ideas, projects, announcements and concrete investments. The numerous disputes that we have followed over the years make us be cautious – not to say completely skeptical – about the short timescales announced by the minister within which this process will be started. Those forecasts seem far too generous but we hope to be proven wrong by the facts, starting from seeing the investment actually realized without having to add it to the long list of “dreams for Brindisi”.
The minister did not want to say too much about the numbers or how many workers will actually be needed to develop and animate the investment. Caution? Or awareness that this project will employ a small number of workers, a far cry from the several hundred workers who will lose their jobs with (almost) certainty in the coming months?
Again: we ask ourselves what the role of the institutions and local representatives is in this proposal which brings together the Government and large companies such as Rete Ferroviaria and Enel. What do institutional representatives at municipal, provincial and regional level think? What is their vision of Brindisi and the Cerano hub? We cannot yet know but it would be more urgent than ever to know the position of those who administer the territory as Brindisi has already abundantly paid the consequences of projects lowered from above without the opinion and vision of those who live and belong to this land. Participating in the Tables for Brindisi can be an opportunity to make the voice of this territory count or, on the contrary, to act as a notary of yet another passively accepted decision.
The Union will continue its battle to defend work and workers currently employed directly and in related activities at the Enel power plant in Cerano. An attention that will continue until even the last worker has the certainty of a stable and dignified future. It would be welcome if, among others, strategic and green investments in photovoltaics give this perspective: the Union will follow the matter promptly and will not fail to make its voice heard to protect the jobs that exist and those that he can come.
the Provincial Coordinator UIL Brindisi
Fabrizio Caliolo
