“Il Ministry of the Environment will appear as a civil party in the process aimed at identifying responsibility for the pollution of Taranto“. The Minister of the Environment Corrado Clini himself gave the news via Twitter. Already last Friday Clini had spoken of the possible trial for environmental disaster, reporting that the Prime Minister had given a positive opinion on the constitution of the ministry as a civil party.
Meanwhile the analyzes by the Higher Institute of Health on the period 2003-2008 in the Taranto area confirm this the trend of the period 1995-2002, which they spoke of an increase in general and cancer mortality of between 10% and 15%, with peaks of 30% for lung tumors and even 50% for acute respiratory diseases, even if the link with Ilva emissions remains to be ascertained.
Ilva's new investment plan will be presented tomorrow which will also be brought to the attention of the public prosecutor who ordered the seizure of the hot areas of the iron and steel industry and which will contain, within it, measures aimed at bringing the plant up to standard. Also tomorrow, at 16 pm, Bruno Ferrante, president of Ilva, will hold a press conference.
