“Hands off Palmaria”. This is the banner that Goletta Verde of Legambiente displayed today during navigation during the passage in front of the island of Palmaria.
Located at the western end of the Gulf of La Spezia, the island is affected by an urban planning project called “Masterplan” which, if implemented, would nullify its naturalistic vocation, regained after a long period of both civil and military anthropization. The master plan in question envisages a tourist development aimed at a medium-high level target which, in order to be economically balanced, provides for the direct sale to private individuals or the assignment of the properties now owned by the State for over ten years, seventy years.
The judicial investigation that has hit Liguria and the Municipality of Porto Venere in recent months has also shown how many interests are at stake on the part of lobbies, in connection with the public administration that has in fact distorted its role as a regulatory and planning body. Legambiente, which immediately rejected the master plan, with this blitz reiterates that the island needs a new model that puts the environmental, historical and cultural vocations of the island at the center.
