ROCCA PIETORE. There Marmolada Srl company has decided to ask for damages from Municipality of Canazei and to Province of Trento for having denied authorization to replace the old chairlift. The bill is 8 and a half million euros. “No” is considered illegitimate by plant engineers. An appeal was thus filed with the TAR of Trento.
“It was a system also foreseen by the provincial urban planning, as reiterated by the State Council: that ‘No’ was illegitimate”, comments the company that has managed the cable car since 1965 Rocca Pietore leads to Rock Point. “We have suffered considerable economic damage, which now needs to be repaired.”
It was 2007 when Marmolada Srl asked the Province of Trento and the Municipality of Canazei for the first time for authorization to replace the old ski lift “Sass del Mul“, decommissioned a year earlier.
“It was and still is a facility of fundamental importance for extending the ski season, because it guarantees the possibility of always skiing at high altitude without having to go down to the ski station Malga Ciapela and then go back up”, explain the Belluno company.
The company’s request is therefore clear, but for 10 years the Province and Municipality of Canazei did not give definitive answers. Marmolada Srl itself speaks of “continuous reminders and interlocutory responses” and this until 2017 when the two entities opted for the NIET.
“In the meantime, however, the Province itself, through the so-called ‘Marmolada Program‘ which is part of the provincial urban planning defines the system as ‘existing to be renewed’. Not only that: the Veneto Region admits the intervention, already in 2013, as a possible contribution”.
An administrative dispute arose that reached the Council of State which, with a ruling of 2023, declared that the Province and the Municipality could not deny the authorization, nor on the assumption of the lack of the urban planning compliance requirement because the plant was not foreseen by the general master plan of Canazeinor for the failure to stipulate a program agreement between the Province and the Region.
Hence the request for compensation for damages, which takes into account the increase in costs for the construction of the plant and the lost management revenue. “It is a paradoxical affair that we hope can be remedied: our request was evidently legitimate”, underline the company, which is now awaiting the TAR’s verdict. “It is sad to note that damage has been caused to a reality that has kept the Marmolada alive for years, promoting its beauties and its immense historical and human heritage. If the massif and its valleys on the Belluno side but also on the Trentino side can grow in a sustainable way, it is also thanks to our work and that of our many collaborators”.
