Sharply increasing fees and 18-month moratorium on hydrocarbon exploration permits. It is on this double track that Lega and M5S have found agreement on the incandescent issue of permits for hydrocarbons, improperly equated are the all-encompassing label "No Triv". On the other hand, it would be correct to distinguish given that the drills only come into question at the end of the long process of identifying oil and gas fields, in the phase of extraction or development of the field. The initial stages are those of research - and do not involve any auger - and coring with the removal of slices of rock ("carrots", in fact, due to the long and narrow cylindrical shape) to proceed with the analysis that precedes the extraction.
After the heated clashes of the last few days, with the Environment Minister Costa who threatened to resign, swearing that he will not sign any permits – even research permits – the umpteenth casus belli among the yellow-greens therefore seems to have arrived at a settlement.
The compromise reached is without prejudice to the rights on "crop concessions", ie on the extraction activity but multiply the concession fees by 25 times that the M5S would have liked to increase by 35 times. The agreement reached suspends exploration for hydrocarbons for 18 months pending the adoption of a national plan. But if the Plan is not adopted, procedures and applications for permits resume effectiveness "within 24 months" therefore in fact the times lengthen up to two years.
To announce the agreement reached was the president of the public works commission Mauro Coltorti on the sidelines of the committee meeting on Thursday morning. Coltorti said that after the group leaders' meeting, work will continue in the joint Constitutional Affairs and Public Works commissions and that the goal is to arrive in the Chamber on Thursday to approve the Simplifications decree on Friday.
The League confirms the agreement on the drilling, announced on the sidelines of the Senate's work. But Lega parliamentary sources underline that irritation with the "no party" is growing. On the drilling dossier, they explain, "jobs were saved, continuity of extraction and renewal of the extended concessions was guaranteed, but the no-to-everything policy is not good for the country", declared by Salvini's party.
