Interview with Dr. Giacinto Franco, former head of the Hospital of Augusta (SR), which has seen since the early 80's a significant increase of cancer, especially lung, birth defects and miscarriages.
area of \u200b\u200bAugusta, Priolo and Melissa (also known as infamous "Triangle of Death") there is a concentration of petrochemical plants, chemical industry and energy that have poured in wastewater and tons of pollutants into the sea, including metals heavy as lead and mercury are elements that are typically responsible for the malformations observed in humans, but also in fish.
a tragedy comparable only to that of Minamata, in Japan occurred in the '50s, because of an industry that spilled mercury in the sea. In the city of Japan, however, there was a great responsibility on the part of institutions and a strong public awareness.
Today Japan is at the forefront in the promotion of a binding treaty that significantly reduces emissions of mercury in the environment he's working on the United Nations Environment Programme. The next meeting to discuss the UNEP mercury will take place right next to Tokyo in late January.
Italy has a long way to go, especially if one considers the close link between politics and industry.
Wikipedia states that "The Office of Occupational Medicine of Messina found in the urine of workers Coem Company, a subsidiary of Fincoe Ltd, owned by the family Prestigiacomo, chlor-alkali plant workers, concentrations of mercury well above the limit. "
Prestigiacomo heir of that family is the current Minister for the Environment. As if that area did not have enough problems, Prestigiacomo has fought for the creation, right at Augusta, an incinerator and a LNG terminal at Melissa, then blocked the project from the Sicily Region.
If Augusta, Priolo and Melilli the Framework Program Agreement of June 2004 between the Ministries of Environment, Economy and the Sicilian Region provided a total cost of remediation amounted to € 774 million in 219.7 borne by the industry, but today, according to activists and AugustAmbiente Decontamination of Syracuse Sicily, the minister would be preparing a decree on "settlement agreements" with industry, including those of Priolo and Gela in Sicily, to delete a blow all the serious environmental disasters they cause.
- http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo_petrolchimico_siracusano
- Communiqué AugustAmbiente and Decontamination of Sicily 20.11.20010: http : / / www.priolo.altervista.org / amnesty-tomb-ambientale.htm
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Antonio House, "Melissa-Priolo LNG terminal, the project panned " di Sicilia newspaper, 27.11.2009 . - Antonio House, "Prestigiacomo Mpa and UDC against the LNG terminal Priolo-Melissa", 04/12/2009.
- "Those energy plants ever built 'stink' mafia " Guide Sicily, 23:07:08.
- " solid waste incinerators in Sicily: Back in Training - After contestazionei EU, the region reopen the bidding for the construction of four incinerators " Guide Sicily, 23:07:08.
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