Emilia upstream and downhill
The company Siam obtained the renewal of the concessions onModena Apennines upstream of Maranello and Vignola of the deposit Summit, where it involves the drilling of three wells, and of the field Barigazzo, in the mountains behind Modena and Valsamoggia, three other wells to be drilled; methane will flow from it, Siam has been given permission to connect the production wells with the gas network.
The company Po Valley has obtained the environmental green light for the extraction of methane from the Selva Malvezzi field, in the countryside of Budrio (in the lower Bolognese plain). The company will also have to build a plant to treat the gas and a pipeline to connect to the national gas pipelines. After 17 years, time to run out of the fields, he will have to restore the area.
In the Strait of Sicily
Green light toEni to drill the methane field Line about thirty kilometers off the coast of Licata e Gela.
Environmental compliance was also verified for six new wells in the fields Argo e Cassiopea, plus two other exploration wells.
On the other hand, some activities on the field were rejected by the negative opinion of the commission of experts Gela, in particular to transform the well number 57 from an extraction well to a reinjection well towards the subsoil.
Extended some concessions
The Unmig mining office, which passed from Economic Development to Ecological Transition, has recently extended the concession for 13 fields in the sea for five years, of which 12 by Eni and one byEnergean.
Protests the green deputy Rossella Muroni
“If we want a sustainable future, therefore, there is no time to waste but we need to adopt by 30 September, when the moratorium on drills expires, an area plan consistent with the Green Deal and European climate objectives and program the progressive abandonment of drilling . Too bad that instead of accelerating on transition and Pitesai, thinking of a road map and a deadline for the validity of the concessions for the extraction of hydrocarbons and a consequent stop of the authorizations for research and prospecting, as Il Sole24Ore informs us, the way has arrived free of the Via Commission », comments the deputy Rossella Muroni, group leader in the Chamber of the FaciamoEco-Federation of Greens component. “Continuing to invest in fossils goes in the opposite direction to the decarbonisation of the economy. Doing so compromises the mission of the same ministry led by Cingolani. That is the ecological transition ».
Protest Greenpeace, Legambiente and WWF
Greenpeace Italy, Legambiente e Wwf they underline how “the problem is upstream, as repeatedly highlighted by environmental associations in the past, and not downstream of technical procedures such as the Via. In fact, there is no law in Italy similar to those approved in France and, recently, in Denmark (one of the largest oil producers in the EU) which establishes a clear deadline for the validity of existing crop concessions and which consequently provides for a stop of all related activities as well as a stop of authorizations for new hydrocarbon exploration and prospecting activities. These new authorizations do not go very well even if they refer to proceedings underway for years ”, the three associations affirm.