Tower of 122 meters, fine dust, stench, tumors, asylum evacuated .... is a déjà vu?
MONSELICE - awoke from his long sleep, the poet who is asleep in his bed in the beautiful square of marble Arquà, faces a giant chimney spewing poisons, as tall as a steeple. Other than the clear, fresh and sweet waters dreaming of Francesco Petrarca. The chimney of 122 meters, a new furnace designed by Italcementi cement plant to restructure its fifty years old, is the nightmare of a hundred thousand people living in Lower Padua, where air pollution is already a concern for the presence of more European high concentration of cement: three within five miles, and the Italcementi cement plant in Monselice, the Cementizillo Este. For this, two citizens' committees, which collect accessions cross, and mobilized with a collection of thousands of signatures, because they fear that the new system is hidden behind the business of waste disposal, and sent a complaint and a complaint to the TAR attorney. TAR of Veneto February 24 will decide on the suspension request made by the two civic committees and municipalities of Este and Baone. The draft Italcementi, which in turn has accused the committees 'damage to the image', is dark as "revamping". It means something like "modernization of facilities, will invest € 160 million and the construction of a new vertical furnace, chimney, instead of the three currently in operation. A plant "highly effective and competitive," says the company, "and on the front edge of environmental protection." "A modern new oven that uses less materials, less water, less fuel and reduces emissions into the atmosphere of at least 50 percent, "according to the charge of the environment Italcementi, Angelo Monti. The mayor of Monselice, Francesco Lunghi, the PDL, is enthusiastic: "A structural improvement that brings great benefits to improve the environment and maintain employment." But he found himself in the minority in his own city council, who said no to the project, as did 27 other municipalities in the area, and as did the body Hills Park Hills, who has judged 'incompatible'. In fact, already thirty years ago when a similar public protest led to the closure of the quarries that were ravaging the country, was provided for the gradual sale of three cement plants, which are considered more likely to cohabit with the main activities in the area, agriculture and tourism, which leads to the hills from the spa three million visitors a year. But nothing happened, cement plants are still there, the dust settles on cars and window sills, a blackish patina covering the gardens and hedges, some nights you have to close the windows to the smell, a bad day and had to evacuate the nursery because children had difficulty breathing. committees "What about us?" And "Let us breathe", built with the support of the parish priest, "tired of the funerals of the cement workers' say that the three plants have spit in the air in one year 1,700,000 t carbon dioxide and 170 tons of particulate matter, that the leukemia and cancers are increasing, affecting 60 former employees, 30 percent higher than the national average. now fear that with the new chimney will be even worse. "We just want to protect our health," says Carmen Solons, entrepreneur, soul of the protest together with citizens as the lawyer Fabio Greggio, the clerk Silvia Bunch, and city councilors from all walks of the center-left politics as a former mayor Francesco Miazzi of the center, passionate Latin scholar, Lorenzo Nosarti. Among those opposed, including the deputy of the Lega Paola Goisis. She also suspects that "behind a huge investment so there is in fact the business of waste, thanks to a law, enacted at the time of "mad cow", which allows cement to eliminate waste without being subject to compliance with the required parameters for incinerators. The company, which has declared its willingness to lower the height of the chimney, denies that this is his intention. He says it takes fuel from waste "only where it is proposed to help dispose of the waste." Currently it does so in two of the 17 plants it has in Italy. The residents fear that happening also in Monselice.
MONSELICE - awoke from his long sleep, the poet who is asleep in his bed in the beautiful square of marble Arquà, faces a giant chimney spewing poisons, as tall as a steeple. Other than the clear, fresh and sweet waters dreaming of Francesco Petrarca. The chimney of 122 meters, a new furnace designed by Italcementi cement plant to restructure its fifty years old, is the nightmare of a hundred thousand people living in Lower Padua, where air pollution is already a concern for the presence of more European high concentration of cement: three within five miles, and the Italcementi cement plant in Monselice, the Cementizillo Este. For this, two citizens' committees, which collect accessions cross, and mobilized with a collection of thousands of signatures, because they fear that the new system is hidden behind the business of waste disposal, and sent a complaint and a complaint to the TAR attorney. TAR of Veneto February 24 will decide on the suspension request made by the two civic committees and municipalities of Este and Baone. The draft Italcementi, which in turn has accused the committees 'damage to the image', is dark as "revamping". It means something like "modernization of facilities, will invest € 160 million and the construction of a new vertical furnace, chimney, instead of the three currently in operation. A plant "highly effective and competitive," says the company, "and on the front edge of environmental protection." "A modern new oven that uses less materials, less water, less fuel and reduces emissions into the atmosphere of at least 50 percent, "according to the charge of the environment Italcementi, Angelo Monti. The mayor of Monselice, Francesco Lunghi, the PDL, is enthusiastic: "A structural improvement that brings great benefits to improve the environment and maintain employment." But he found himself in the minority in his own city council, who said no to the project, as did 27 other municipalities in the area, and as did the body Hills Park Hills, who has judged 'incompatible'. In fact, already thirty years ago when a similar public protest led to the closure of the quarries that were ravaging the country, was provided for the gradual sale of three cement plants, which are considered more likely to cohabit with the main activities in the area, agriculture and tourism, which leads to the hills from the spa three million visitors a year. But nothing happened, cement plants are still there, the dust settles on cars and window sills, a blackish patina covering the gardens and hedges, some nights you have to close the windows to the smell, a bad day and had to evacuate the nursery because children had difficulty breathing. committees "What about us?" And "Let us breathe", built with the support of the parish priest, "tired of the funerals of the cement workers' say that the three plants have spit in the air in one year 1,700,000 t carbon dioxide and 170 tons of particulate matter, that the leukemia and cancers are increasing, affecting 60 former employees, 30 percent higher than the national average. now fear that with the new chimney will be even worse. "We just want to protect our health," says Carmen Solons, entrepreneur, soul of the protest together with citizens as the lawyer Fabio Greggio, the clerk Silvia Bunch, and city councilors from all walks of the center-left politics as a former mayor Francesco Miazzi of the center, passionate Latin scholar, Lorenzo Nosarti. Among those opposed, including the deputy of the Lega Paola Goisis. She also suspects that "behind a huge investment so there is in fact the business of waste, thanks to a law, enacted at the time of "mad cow", which allows cement to eliminate waste without being subject to compliance with the required parameters for incinerators. The company, which has declared its willingness to lower the height of the chimney, denies that this is his intention. He says it takes fuel from waste "only where it is proposed to help dispose of the waste." Currently it does so in two of the 17 plants it has in Italy. The residents fear that happening also in Monselice.
Roberto Bianchin - La Repubblica, February 19, 2011
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