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Carlo Bonini
Aerial view of the landfill which poison
Po Po hide? And those poisons that story and tell what responsibilities? Why, for twelve years, the landfill no longer wanted to hear? Massimo Scalia returned to teach physics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". You Greens parliamentary state. Between 1998 and 2000 he chaired the committee of inquiry on waste. Than it does, the policy seems to do without.
says: "Eight years ago, in our work of investigation, detection, so incontrovertible that at the Po were certainly finished the poisonous sludge acne Cengio. A large quantity, which unfortunately we were unable to determine precisely because most of documents for transport or had been destroyed or were incomplete. Those mud, of course, are still there, in plain. And if anyone will hand will continue to poison the land and water. Forever. "
National Dyes and Allied Products Company (Acna) Cengio (Savona), the devastation of the river and Bormida the lunar aspect of the valley, are at least ten to fifteen years the metaphor of the murder to voluntary environmental man. He already wrote Beppe Fenoglio - "Have you ever seen Bormida? Has the water color of dried blood, which puts you in the cold core. Does not grow on its banks as a blade of grass" - but it was not until 23 July 88 when its smokestacks release a cloud of sulfur dioxide, which included Italy. The Acna was closed and, especially, was somehow attacked the mountain of poisons that had produced. Naples, of course, was an excellent dust-bin.
Stefano Leoni was until 2005 the special commissioner for remediation acne. In six years, has released the Val Bormida from 300 000 cubic meters of sodium salts. Initiated and stored in salt mines abandoned in Halle (East Germany) 250 thousand tons of poisonous sludge. He found that in the bowels of that unfortunate land, are 3 ½ million cubic meters of pitch harmful.
He says: "If I were to say what had acne when we arrived in '99, I would first say what was missing. The factory had produced for decades for explosives, and then paint. Inventory something like 280 types of chemical compounds. The classes of poisons that were recognized practically complete. And the most dangerous dioxins amines (organic compounds caused by ammonia and containing Nitrogen, ed), sulfur compounds, cyanide. Unfortunately we were unable to ascertain what was taken away before our arrival. And where. We heard of sludge transferred in Campania, incredibly in trucks. Even without sinking ship. "
Nicola de Ruggiero, the environment commissioner of the Piedmont Region, seems to know more. Not later than one week ago, speaking in the Council to request a vote to accept a share of waste from Campania, says: "There is always a centrifugal force that pushes the waste out of Campania, and the toxic-harmful, perhaps for specific margins of legality in that area, have a reverse path. A Plain arrived at least 800 000 tonnes Cengio waste, a company for us emblematic of the environmental disaster caused by the Piedmont. "
Scalia insists." I reiterate that a given so exact you can not formulate it. But this does not mean that Po sludge Cengio have arrived. "Even so, perhaps, was not even necessary to hide them.
Paul Russo (Forza Italy) chaired the committee during the previous legislative investigation of the waste. He says:" Between 1988 and 1991, the then administration of the Province of Naples all landfills authorized by the Neapolitan regularly surveyed to accept waste treated outside the region. 1988-1991. I think that with the dates we have. The Acna is 88. The closure of Po is 1996. And, ten years ago, that huge crater eight million tonnes of capacity, was evidently regarded as a bottomless pit where you can download all ".
The committee, chaired by Russian Plain at the edge of never facing. "We have not had the opportunity and, let's say, no one has requested to do so. It was considered a closed story. Over. There was talk of a golf course. "No one thought it was even necessary to reclaim. Also because, as Russell points out, no later than four years ago," the company that managed the lands of the former landfill, was subject to disqualification for failing to rule with the anti-mafia laws.
The Camorra, then. But the inertia of workers and local administrators, which led in time just plain shallow coring. The probes have never been pushed beyond the 20 meters in depth. Beyond the threshold required to fish in Cengio of poisonous sludge. To ascertain what the hell you are laminated into the crater in forty years.
If negligence or willful misconduct, this, perhaps, will ensure the investigation by the prosecutor of Naples. It's a plain fact that thinking of leaving as is, only listing a new environmental disaster. Leoni knows something, "Plain goes absolutely made safe. Isolated and then reclaimed. Surely it would be better not to move a single chunk of his land. Also why add sull'invaso new pressure, whatever the type of material downloaded, even the eco-bales, could produce sudden changes of internal pressure, altering the balance of what is down there. We have learned and ledges. When we got to the heart of the sludge, we realized that the only thing to do was close, and provide for zoning that would make it impervious to poison the well ".
(January 22, 2008)
