Starting from February 2024, the Legambiente Club of Crotone has organized a series of public meetings with the theme: “Towards reclamation: what vision for the city of Crotone”
Starting from the history of the factories, from the experience of the workers and related industries, from the comparison with the institutional actors who sit at the service conferences, up to the meeting last June 18th on what is the vision of the development of the city addressed with the trade union organisations, employers’ associations and professional associations, the world of the third sector. Precisely this last meeting and the position taken by Legambiente unleashed the already agitated spirits in the city.
The facts and history of Crotone tell us about a heavy industry which, on the one hand, has brought economic, social and cultural development, on the other it has caused a vast contamination which, years after the closure of the factories, continues to spread the polluting effects, in general indifference. Also because over the years, the city, politics and the entire ruling class have been effectively incapable of influencing and demanding respect for the restoration of places and economic compensation for environmental damage.
Even today the theme is not of the development of the Crotone area, but rather the question of where and how to manage industrial waste, given that reclamation activities still produce waste of various types which must be disposed of in special landfills. What did Legambiente say that was so uncomfortable? As a national association that has built respectability and authority over the years, in Crotone – according to some, it wants to pass itself off as something else?!
Legambiente said 1) that the cleanup must be done immediately, because the unjustifiable delays on the SIN site of Crotone are no longer tolerable, nor the cumbersomeness of the management of the Services Conferences at the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security; 2) that Eni and the companies it controls, responsible for the contamination, benefit from the delays in the clean-up, since they have diluted over time the expenses to be incurred for the restoration of the environmental parameters in the soil and water matrices in the SIN, which is still illegal today ; 3) that the Crotone area has already given in the past and that it is necessary to immediately close the doors to the disposal of any type of external waste as has been done over the years, and as we continue to do now; reason why Legambiente expresses a clear rejection of any hypothesis of expanding landfills currently existing in the Crotone area and the creation of new landfills; 4) that the development of the city must pass through virtuous paths of innovative systems linked to the ecological transition and far from the failed experiences of “takers” that we have suffered in previous years; 5) that given the difficulties expressed by Commissioner Errigo in finding landfills in which to dispose of SIN waste, it is necessary to overturn Eni’s logic and proposal, for these reasons, last 18 June, Legambiente said yes – to the in situ landfill for treat only the SIN waste, and not – as emerged in some imaginative article – that the waste and poisons remain as they are on site; – that the management of this service landfill is publicly managed, so that the community can be further refreshed.
It is obvious that Legambiente’s declarations are inconvenient: they displease those responsible for pollution; they displease landfill entrepreneurs; they displease those who propagandize “SIN waste must go outside”, aware that it is not a practicable or immediate solution and failing to say that at the same time the same type of hazardous and non-hazardous waste is disposed of in the Crotone area, in obviously equipped and authorized landfills , for which over the years more and more extensions have been granted in the silence and indifference of everyone; they displease those who in recent years have left the decisions to other tables, declaring after the fact that we have to suffer the choice.
Finally, the attack that the Voice Engineer intended to address to Legambiente from a private social page, and not from the institutional website, as the role he holds should require, leaves us perplexed.
It is at least curious that a local administrator states that a public landfill is ridiculous, thus preferring the privately managed landfill.
The experience of the Municipality of Peccioli in the province of Pisa is a virtuous example of a publicly managed landfill, a best practice to imitate. Equally curious is the reference to soil mixing treatment, on which Legambiente has absolutely not expressed its opinion. All treatments and remediation techniques that will reduce the matrices to be taken to landfill to a minimum are welcome, but which will still produce waste that will be adequately treated and sent to landfills, and the Voice Engineer must tell citizens where the waste in question will end up of the treatment. Here too, why oppose so vehemently a publicly managed landfill, which would bring huge sums into public coffers?
It is the time for real and practicable solutions, in the interest of the community, not for propaganda or divisions of the territory, and it is the time to decide which side to be on. It is also the time for the mayor to express himself on the vision of the Administration he leads, regarding post-factory and post-reclamation planning.
We reiterate the principle according to which reclamation must be a shared and participatory process, aware that there are many private and political interests at stake and cause divisions.
Stefano Ciafani, national president of Legambiente
Anna Parretta, president of Legambiente Calabria
Rosaria Vazzano, president of Legambiente Crotone
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