In 2010, the coming of the Lord's Carnival has, even in the quaint town of Gualdo Cattaneo, initiated an unusual flurry of players who alternate turns in a clumsy waltz in the background of a situation that has lasted for decades between the tragic and grotesque. The Commonwealth of Gualdo Cattaneo is a territory forty injured, polluted, sullied and disqualified by the presence of the only coal plant in Italy located in the hinterland rather than the sea. One of the most polluting in Europe (see reports APAT about it), one of the most uneconomic and unnecessary (just think of the cost of transporting 400 000 tons of coal in Indonesia which has to go through half the planet to Ancona and then performed in Foligno Gualdo Cattaneo train and road) .
A facility over the years has made the fortune of a few at the expense of everyone else.
addition to the problem of toxic and harmful emissions (note that coal burning, free, 67 pollutants in 23 different carcinogens, and that there are filtering systems capable of stopping the most hazardous emissions), in addition to hazardous waste burned in the 90s (the ashes of OCD), in addition to the scourge of pollution noise apart from the increase of occurrence of certain types of cancer and leukemia (which has not gone unnoticed and in any case raises legitimate questions concerning a possible causal link between emissions and diseases), should never be forgotten economic damage in terms of non-development of real resources of the territory (DOCG wine, olive oil DOP, tourism and real estate market value). Dozens, hundreds of jobs that could become reality, but that did not materialize due to the presence of a relic of industrial architecture with a mountain of coal at its base, and spewing smoke in the face of the fortress, monument-symbol of the City of Gualdo Cattaneo.
The operator of the site itself, noticing dell'antieconomicità of producing energy by burning coal away from the sea - not least in the heart of the DOCG Sagrantino di Montefalco - having come to be bound by the threshold values \u200b\u200bof emissions harmful to the environment and health, has finally proved possible on the cessation of 'plant operation.
which could still be converted into a central solar energy (photovoltaic or even thermodynamics, since the leadership in the production of components in this emerging field is the Angelantoni Spa in Massa Martana, less than twenty miles distance from the site in question).
And when the strict logic of the market, which require first rationalization of costs, are for once going to support sustainable development of the territory come the comedians.
one hand, the Mayor expressed that opinion in favor of granting the Integrated Environmental without the slightest contact your engineer (Dr. Federico Valerio, environmental chemist from the National Institute for Research on Cancer) specially appointed to evaluate the impact of 'plant activities on public health and satisfied only generic and not at all binding promises.
other so-called "confederal unions" (or "most representative" as they like to call themselves) involved in straight leg shooting judgments that denote sadly un'ideologizzazione and a concept of progress at least two centuries old.
Just the confederal unions, workers accustomed to the cold to parade through the streets and squares as their arbitrators to come to terms with the factions in the heat of Confindustria secret corridors of power, wanted to give the best of 'also on the story of Gualdo Cattaneo.
Leveraging the usual employment blackmail, pulling the ball 113 employees employed at the plant and another 100 unspecified "operators industries", the self-styled "most representative" called a press conference at the cry "Save Central" (For confirmation of the number of jobs expected to estimates by the police).
talk of 200 jobs (many of whom are close to retirement) without mentioning the lack of development of key sectors of the territory and the creation of jobs that affect the presence of the plant. They speak of the threshold values \u200b\u200bof emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur as an issue to get around instead of a guarantee to be respected to protect the health of population.
speak of the system as a structure to revive, strengthen and increase, in a farming and tourist area, without making the slightest reference to alternative energy production ecosotenibili which are becoming a reality even on the economic and especially employment.
These gentlemen, who have always wallow in the ideology (in the sense in which Marx called, or "false consciousness") and a concept of progress dating back to the Industrial Revolution, are intended to give precedence to the pecuniary interests of a small aristocracy of labor on right to health and a harmonious and sustainable development of a whole region.
perhaps not within the remit of the confederations to defend the right to health of thousands of people Valley Apulia recorded for most groups the same?
In defending the old man at any cost, the confederal unions Gualdo Cattaneo condemn the land of backwardness. In defense of a decades-old model of development if not centuries, CGIL, CISL and UIL condemn hundreds of young people to abandon the hope of a revival of socio-ecoonomica this dormitory town, where the youth are forced to go to work , often in areas which could be increased successfully in the district Gualdese but that the presence of what by law is an "unhealthy system of category 1" limits and marginalizes.
Trade unionists, administrators, politicians and local politicians and others (including former directors that affected - which is possible only in Italy - continue to influence policy of municipalities, provinces, regions and even higher) do not consider the fact that the same minimally decommissioning of coal and its possible conversion would secure work for years to come, allowing the territory to consolidate both the developing and harmonious Sustainable has slowly established itself, albeit extremely underpowered, despite the presence of that installation.
It 's time for the truth. There can be no synthesis between two opposing models together.
Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG can not continue to live with coal.
The extra virgin olive oil can not continue to be produced daily in an area polluted by arsenic, mercury, cadmium and vanadium. The only possible
tourism in a town dominated by the presence of such a system is the "tourism of the macabre."
The value of properties in the area affected by the presence of a coal plant in Gualdo Cattaneo never reach the levels of municipalities in the district who live in all these areas (see Bevagna, Montefalco, Todi, etc..) Until the plant will continue to burn coal, ash from heavy fuel oil or other junk.
that no one, therefore, can think of trying to "bypass" the observance of the threshold values \u200b\u200bfor issuing Integrated Environmental Authorisation. ENEL
If he wants to continue to burn coal in Gualdo Cattaneo, must do so in the most scrupulous observance of the laws and regulations on environmental protection and public health.
We declare ourselves ready to use in all locations judicial authorities, if necessary, until the European Court of Justice, to safeguard the right to health of citizens of our district, since the so-called "local institutions" have so far shown a supine attitude and a lack of zeal in defending it.
