CROTONE Part of the waste, the most dangerous, will be disposed of in the Columbra landfill in Crotone and the less dangerous ones will be transferred to non-Calabrian sites. This is the conclusion that seems to have been reached the Conference of decision-making services, which was held this morning in Rome at the Ministry of the Environment. According to what was possible to learn, this would be the idea that emerged at the meeting despite the no expressed by the Calabria Region, Municipality and Province of Crotone, which confirmed the purpose of transferring the poisons present in Crotone out of Calabriaas was established on 24 October 2019 by the Conference of decision-making services, which gave the green light to the Pob phase 2 project. The Ministry of the Environment, at the end of the meeting, said that it will take a few days to evaluate the positions and decide in favor of the hypothesis that today prevailed over the others. The reference figure becomes the new director of the General Economy and Land Reclamation, Luca Proietti.
Proietti’s intervention
Engineer Proietti will make the decisions. In his speech today he has already expressed his desire to support the project proposed by Eni. The object of the meeting was the approval of the hypothesis of cancellation of Pob phase 2 in relation to the immediately executable interventions. It was noted, on the basis of a report carried out by Eni, at the request of the Ministry of the Environment, that it was not possible to plan immediate interventions on Tenorm waste with asbestos matrix. The discussion, therefore, was limited to waste not containing asbestos, both dangerous and non-hazardous. Reference was also made in passing to the correspondence that the Ministry of the Environment has held in recent weeks with the Guglielmo Maio company, now Dupont energetics, which proposed the construction of a new mega landfill in the Giammiglione area. We did not go into the merits of the matter, as Today’s conference did not include discussions on proposed new landfill sites. The Maio case has been archived, but no one has ruled out that it may return to some table in the future. Eni representatives illustrated the activities that they intend to implement. They explained that the excerpt, proposed today, concerns 70% of the poisons to be disposed of, equal to approximately 760,000 tonnes. The areas on which the intervention is planned to be carried out are the former Pertusola, the Gessi area, the ferrite basin, the commissioner’s basin and the area which is now identified as the former phytoremediation area. These are the sites and Eni proposes to deliver 362,000 tonnes of dangerous waste to Columbra and 397,000 tonnes of waste not considered dangerous outside the Calabrian territory. This is Eni’s plan which has also proposed a timetable which expects to complete the activities by 2032.
The Eni project
In the Eni project, the construction of an emergency road is proposed, considering that those that will be moved and transported are dangerous for the health of citizens. Precisely for this reason, the closure of the consortium road, which is parallel to the landfill facing the sea, is being hypothesized. Today, therefore, there was no discussion about how to dispose of Tenorm waste with asbestos matrix. The decision regarding these very dangerous poisons will probably be taken at a new services conference. where perhaps Eni will return to propose the purpose-built landfill within the former Pertusola site. There’s nothing to be happy about.
At the end of the meeting the mayor Vincenzo Voce issued a note accusing Eni of having made “yet another attempt” to “fail to comply with the provisions of POB 2, through an axed project, leaving the dangerous waste from sea landfills on the territory and not outside the region as has already been established by ministerial decree”. «This proposal too – writes Voce – was returned to the sender by the Municipality. And with us, from the Province and the Region, entities with which we are in full agreement on the problem.” Continuing, Voce writes: «Eni carries out research all over the world to find new gas or methane resources. Is it possible that I can’t find a suitable location for the waste from the industrial area?”. Voce asks that a search be made for landfills abroad and asks that we not think «of a partial reclamation. The cleanup must be complete!”, he concluded.
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