The signing of the memorandum of understanding to establish the complex industrial crisis area of the Petrochemical Pole of Syracuse, scheduled for Tuesday 18 May at 12 at the headquarters of the South-East Sicily Chamber of Commerce of Syracuse (via degli Abruzzi, 4), is confirmed. The regional councilor for productive activities Mimmo Turano, delegated by the President of the Sicilian Region Nello Musumeci will be present.
Assessor Turano, after the industrial poles of Gela and Termini Imerese, the crisis area for the petrochemicals of Syracuse now appears. Is Sicily about to lose its last “family jewel”?
«I know that the word” crisis “does not evoke pleasant things but the intervention that we want to implement for the Petrochemical of Syracuse aims to avoid a real and irreversible crisis. We can say that this time the Region has moved in time with the aim of protecting a very important reality for the Sicilian and national economy that provides work to almost eight thousand people between direct, indirect and services ».
Won’t we have a Sicilian Ilva then? The risk, in Syracuse, now seems to be just this …
“There will be no Sicilian Ilva, indeed perhaps we will have a new or virtuous model to face industrial crises where institutions, companies and trade unions move together to solve global problems. However, it is necessary that everyone is clear about the type of challenge we are facing: in the last year thirteen refineries in the world have closed, there has been a collapse in oil consumption and in addition Brussels has set the goal of decarbonization for 2030 “.
Is the protocol you will sign in Syracuse yet another warm panel or will it become the symbol of this new method?
“The second he said, exactly. Because it is the result of a work of comparison that lasted months with the municipalities of the petrochemical area, companies in the industrial center, trade unions and employers’ associations and the precious collaboration of the prefect of Syracuse, Scaduto. A comparison that was not easy but in which I saw great love for this land from everyone ».
What are the next steps now?
“In fact, we have just started, now we will have to build together with the trade unions and employers’ associations the proposal to submit to the Ministry of Economic Development which will have the task of formally declaring the complex crisis area which is the necessary condition to activate all possible measures of economic and financial support, drawing on Community, national and regional financial resources and identifying concessions, incentives and financial instruments useful for carrying out industrial reconversion. I hope you travel at the same speed as we have so far held ».