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Ex Ilva, new protests in Taranto for the steel pole

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A hot start to the year for the former Ilva di Taranto, which for some months has become Acciaierie d’Italia with a partner of the State through Invitalia. Article 21 of the Milleproroghe decree, which wants to move 575 million euros from the reclamation of polluted sites to the construction of future plants to produce steel with decarbonisation, has generated a barrage. This money is part of the 1,1071 million seized years ago by the Milan prosecutor’s office from the Riva steelmakers, former Ilva owners, who had taken them abroad.

The passage from one use to another of these funds as foreseen by the Milleproroghe, is not liked. Dry no of MPs from the M5S, Pd, Italia Viva. No from a plurality of subjects ranging from the Fim to the Cisl, from the Fiom to the Usb, from the Greens to the Peacelink and Parent Tarantini associations, from Legambiente to Confcommercio and finally to the regional councilors of Puglia. Critical also the former mayor of Taranto, Rinaldo Melucci, who for about a month had to leave Palazzo di Città due to the resignation of 17 municipal councilors out of 32 which caused the early dissolution of the assembly and the fall of the administration with the return to vote, however already scheduled for this year.

Amendments to delete the disputed provision

Not just protests though. Pd, with Ubaldo Pagano, group leader in the Budget Committee of the Chamber, and M5S, with the parliamentarians Gianpaolo Cassese and Mario Turco (among the vice-presidents of the Movement), have already anticipated that they will present suppressive amendments to article 23. Same thing announced by Giovanni Vianello with the Alternativa alla Camera group. They ask that those millions put on decarbonisation are reported on the reclamations by Ilva in extraordinary administration. There are also new complaints: to the Taranto Public Prosecutor’s Office and to the European Union, given that the law in question, in addition to facing the examination of the Chambers, will be subjected to scrutiny by Brussels. And finally the protest sit-ins arrive: on January 5 by associations and January 7 by the Usb union.

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“Snatch”, “three card game”, “serious”, “unacceptable”, these are the most popular terms in the various positions. “I want to hope that it was a question of a misunderstanding in the Government and that immediate clarity is made through a clarification from the Ministry of Economic Development” commented former minister Francesco Boccia, of the national secretariat of the Democratic Party. And even if the Milleproroghe explains, in the attached report, that “taking into account the sums already allocated for environmental interventions by the manager ArcelorMittal and estimating for the interventions envisaged by the Prime Minister’s decree directly in charge of Ilva in as, of approximately 100 million euros “, 575 million still remain. And that these “can be usefully used for decarbonisation and electrification of the production cycle of the Taranto steel plant, within the framework of the national and European objectives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and in line with the more general objectives of rehabilitation and modernization of the Taranto site ”, Taranto does not like this at all.

In 2022 ten years after the judicial seizure

Moreover, 2022 has entered the tenth year of the seizure of the hot area of ​​the factory by the judiciary, and the 2012 objective, that is to keep health and work together, is not yet achieved, as well as the relaunch of the former Ilva is not yet a finished page. On the other hand, the same minister of economic development, Giancarlo Giorgetti, recently admitted that the game turned out, for various reasons, to be more complicated than expected. With the transfer of funds hypothesized by the dl Milleproroghe, a nerve was therefore struck, considering that in these ten years in Taranto the reclamations have not made significant progress. Distinguished between areas adjacent to the steel mill and those on the outskirts of the city and entrusted to two different commissioner managements: the first to Ilva in extraordinary administration, led by the commissioners appointed by the Mise, the second to the commissioner appointed by the Ministry of the Environment.

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