Predictably, HERE IS THE REACTION AGAINST THE TRANSPORT OF PET COKE, considered as waste oil.
Pet Coke. Meeting at the police headquarters policy is taking its first steps on each pet coke. This morning at police headquarters, convened by Mayor Angelo Graci, held a meeting attended by the town councilors Paul Licata, Richard Mangiaracina Calogero and Scrimali, the Director of the Municipal Police Force, Jane Incorvaia, and representatives of the CISL, CGIL and Tony Licata, Onofrio Marino. The goal was to make an examination of the affair in order to identify the steps that the City Council should do to protect the interests of the community. The first finding is that the administration knows what the story has learned from the press (the same one that the mayor never misses an opportunity of chopsticks. ... Ed), Palace of the city, in fact, has not reached any official document on to each other. It was therefore decided to organize a meeting with the Commander of the Office of the Maritime Penitentiary Licata Lieutenant Ferruccio Alessandro Grassia, that topic on Sunday issued a special interview with the two regional newspapers. "We read the story - declared this morning to our online newspaper seafaring Councillor Paul Licata - ask all the possible guarantees for the protection of public health. Our city - says Licata - chose to take the road of tourism, other activities may be conducted only if they can live with the tourism industry, otherwise we will oppose it firmly to the idea of \u200b\u200bEni's board in the pet coke Licata " . On another morning there was the position taken by the former Mayor Angelo Biondi (LAWS) cha do also know that tomorrow will be to the Regional Land and Environment just to know the details of each pet coke.  |
| ITALCEMENTI ISLAND OF FEMALE FULL TOWN NEAR elementary and middle schools SUPERMARKETS NEAR CLOSE TO STAGE TOWN NEAR Kindergarten NEAR A HEALTHCARE FACILITY LESS THAN 100 METERS FROM HOTEL COVERING THE TRAIN STATION THE ITALCEMENTI cross the highway ISLAND OF FEMALES TO PROTECT LANDSCAPE January 30, 1989 DECREE ON SITES SICZPS Raffo Rosso, M. Cuccio and Vallone Sagana ITA020023 Monte Pecoraro and Pizzo Cirino ITA020049 MARINE RESERVE ORIENTED ITA020005 PROTECTED AREA CHAPTER GALLO / ISLE OF FEMALE ITA020047 DM 24.07.2002 |
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| ITALCEMENTI ISLAND OF FEMALE FULL TOWN NEAR elementary and middle schools NEAR SUPERMARKETS NEAR STADIUM MUNICIPAL NEAR Kindergarten NEAR A HEALTHCARE FACILITY LESS THAN 100 METERS FROM HOTEL COVERING THE TRAIN STATION ITALCEMENTI CROSS THE HIGHWAY ISLAND OF FEMALES TO PROTECT LANDSCAPE ON SITES IN SICZPS Raffo Rosso, M. Cuccio and Vallone Sagana ITA020023 Monte Pecoraro and Pizzo Cirino ITA020049 MARINE RESERVE ORIENTED ITA020005 PROTECTED AREA CHAPTER GALLO / ISLE OF FEMALE ITA020047 |
Biondi will Palermo together with the national commissioner Mp Giovambattista Platamone. Also this morning we record the firm opposition of the former leader of the UDC, now leader of Pid, \u200b\u200bPiero Santoro, "Licata is attention only when it comes to associate it with bad things - he says - before the pipeline, then the wind turbines at sea, nuclear power and now the pet coke. I hope that the council should undertake a serious battle against the will of Eni Licata used to load the final processing of waste oil. " Inc aso not, I tell myself available to participate in any committee convened by anyone to defend the territory from this danger. " SOURCE www.licatalive24.it
"Victims of Pet-coke ' After the kidnapping of sixteen thousand tons of Pet-coke by the Carabinieri of the NOE of ILVA in Lecce, Taranto, one wonders how dangerous this substance. June 14, 2008 - Stefano De Pace Source: LEFT - events - weekly dell'altritalia http://www.avvenimentionline.it
The pet-coke, as defined by industry, is a product obtained by the process of condensation of heavy oil residues and oily residue until a different texture, spongy or compact.
In essence, the pet-coke is the final product of processing oil and is considered the standard deviation of the difference of the black gold which has earned the name "dregs of oil."
to its composition - including in addition to PAHs (particularly benzopyrene), oxides of sulfur and heavy metals such as nickel, chromium and vanadium - must be handled with care to avoid raising dust that would inhaled with serious health risks. In fact, the treatment (loading, unloading and storage) of Pet-coke must follow the rules dictated by the decree of the Ministry of Health (4/28/1997) on the transport of dangerous substances.
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| ITALCEMENTI ISLAND FULL OF BITCHES IN TOWN NEAR SCHOOLS ELEMENTARY AND CLOSE TO LOCAL SUPERMARKETS NEAR STADIUM NEAR INFANT CARE IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF A HEALTHCARE FACILITY LESS THAN 100 METERS FROM A HOTEL CLOSE TO THE RAILWAY STATION ITALCEMENTI cross the highway ISLAND LANDSCAPE PROTECTION OF A FEMALE ON SITES IN SICZPS Raffo Rosso, M. Cuccio and Vallone Sagana ITA020023 Monte Pecoraro and Pizzo Cirino ITA020049 MARINE RESERVE ORIENTED ITA020005 PROTECTED AREA CHAPTER GALLO / ISLE OF FEMALE ITA020047 DM 24.07.2002 |
OSHA, the U.S. agency for workplace safety, set an exposure limit that should never be exceeded because the higher the likelihood to cause permanent damage or death. For these reasons, for example, the use of pet coke has been banned in Jordan. Eni burns Pet-coke at the Gela refinery. The use of Pet-coke has raised questions about the possible association with malformations and tumors in many local people. ENI Gela in the establishment of the magistrates consider that possibility of a "repeated criminal behavior."
In Italy a few years ago it was forbidden to use the pet-coke as an alternative fuel, but we thought Berlusconi Decree-Law 22 of 2002, then ratified by Law 82, May 6, 2002, to transform the pet-coke, very harmful under some epidemiological studies, in real fuel. The decree approved the corrected classification of the discussed material, until then considered by the Ronchi law (passed under the first Prodi government) as a toxic waste, upheld the 'Eni and annulled the findings of the prosecution experts
WWF intervened and said that the decree became law on pet-coke was invented based on assumptions and contrary to European legislation on the reuse of by-products of refineries and the use of best available technologies. The avoidance of waste legislation permits throughout National use of a waste processing high-sulfur, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals (nickel and vanadium), in any burner, even in the cement, which are taken without the best available technology.
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| ITALCEMENTI ISLAND OF FEMALE FULL TOWN NEAR elementary and middle schools NEAR SUPERMARKETS NEAR STADIUM MUNICIPAL NEAR Kindergarten NEAR A STRUCTURE HEALTH LESS THAN 100 METERS FROM HOTEL COVERING OF THE TRAIN STATION ITALCEMENTI cross the highway ISLAND OF FEMALES TO PROTECT LANDSCAPE DECREE January 30, 1989 ON SITES IN SICZPS Raffo Rosso, M. Cuccio and Vallone Sagana ITA020023 Monte Pecoraro and Pizzo Cirino ITA020049 MARINE RESERVE ORIENTED ITA020005 PROTECTED AREA CHAPTER GALLO / ISLE OF FEMALE ITA020047 DM 24.07.2002 |
In practice, the "extraordinary need and urgency that has prompted the government at the time of the enactment of legislation related to the seizure of refinery ENI Gela ordered by the Court due to violation of regulations to protect the environment and health.
back to Gela, petroleum coke as a residue of the refinery's production, after treatment and storage, was sent to the boiler for the production of energy, Enel and subsequently sold to other companies.
Yet the court of Gela had described the coke as a waste and therefore subject to the legislation on waste, so the thermal power plant connected to the refinery had to meet the constraints for operation and emissions from incinerators and legislation prepared for power plants powered by conventional fuels.
After the 2001 elections, Silvio Berlusconi arrives at Palazzo Chigi. Sicily is in an uproar over the pet-coke, and in consultation with the Minister for relations with the regions of La Loggia, along with Environment Minister Matteoli, Berlusconi issued a decree law which contains "Urgent measures for the identification of the rules governing the use of petroleum coke in combustion plants "to pacify the spirits ... So the pet coke is not toxic waste but fuel: a miracle! They know so many that it is toxic, but the government has changed the face, classifying it as a fuel, then use to feed the petrochemical industry. The Gela now "breathe" so that the pet-coke is not outlawed. Breathe poison, as they do for forty years. The decree passed in parliament while the city of Gela on strike against the seizure of the refinery: the Gela refinery employs about three thousand workers, the economy of half the town. Yet another blow to the seals of the judiciary.
The decree defined the Berlusconi government, considering the high level of technology, the combustion of pet coke in the middle of Gela "environmentally" safe into account the strategic importance of that product for the jobs and the economy National (dl 7 March 2002, n.22)
Nobody, or almost calls into question the Eni, which is now even stronger than before. In response to the rise of cancer in Gela, the President of Refinery Giorgio Lenzi, at six-monthly meeting on the activities of petrochemicals, made the point in terms of environmental improvement, declaring: "If there is liability proven scientifically, the ' Eni is ready to do its part "
Meanwhile, Silvio ENI at least have" legalized "the pollution with the tacit assent of the left and the right in Sicily is second to none.
The issue of Gela is obviously repeated in other places such as Gaeta in Italy, where if the ports of Naples and Salerno for years have prohibited the arrival of this carbon, Gaeta and 'turned into a real center sorting to the deposits in the province of Sessa for supplying the cement of the surrounding provinces. Even here there was a blitz of the Prosecutor at the port where you download pet-coke and the matter continues to animate the local population.
Yet in 1991 the Harbour in 1991 imposed even with two specific orders to avoid the use of water for the uprising in the air of dust, the prohibition of dumping in windy conditions and the use of insulated containers or towels to prevent spillage of material on the roadside or in the basin.
The "emergency pet-coke" is not, unfortunately, only Gela. In Sicily, the island of females, the Cement of Italacementi, the leading Italian company in the field of construction materials, use this fuel in their production cycles. Yet the use of pet coke can not be enabled with a simple comparison on whether the limits of the law, but a full assessment, taking into account the location, technology used, the vocations of the area, the development of the same .
LA7 recently in a magazine brought images of the heap in the open air of pet-coke in town Raffo Rosso Island of Female ; the depot is surrounded by a vast area considered by the Community Europe's high environmental protection. The citizen committee "Clean Island" in a press release has asked the leaders how will Councillor Territory Environment that will have to prepare their views in the investigation of Italcementi AIA, are the leaders committed themselves to develop plans air quality, which according to press information and televisions seem totally copied from plans previously developed by the Department Veneto Region. Mysteries of the policy.
Gela He called "one of the cities worst-hit of a battered southern Italy" the current President of the Puglia region in a parliamentary question from the schools of communist re-establishment. The facts of Gela were then compared according Vendola, to those of Porto Marghera, or in forms different than those of Brindisi, Manfredonia, Taranto and many parts of Italy, especially in the South.
Vendola The deputy then took a stand against this difficult conflict between the reasons labor and the environment and health of citizens, with the aggravating circumstance that Gela 3,000 jobs accounted for much of the economy of that city.
Today the President of the Puglia region that probably reread his letter and feel the weight of years of struggle. Of the strange and abnormal activity difference between opposition and government that is at the heart of the democratic life of our country.
Nichi Vendola explained the success of the reclamation district's most industrialized in Europe, the Ruhr, where he was able - without losing a job - to make a clean extraordinary also in terms of industrial restructuring. Vendola chasing a dream that is still on the drainage areas of Brindisi and Taranto devastated by decades of industrialism wild.
The Berlusconi government, according to Vendola, then fled in an act of coverage of ENI, to issue decrees for the classification of pet-coke, which suddenly ceased to be refusing to become fuel. A decree was needed simply to formalize the extension of the agony of the plant in Gela.
"A really ingarbugliatissima tangle of interests and property are at stake and should not be placed in alternative", so called Vendola The contradictory nature of the plaudits of the trade unions on the territory, which welcomed the measure of the Berlusconi government who shook hands ENI that despite having rejected the intervention of rehabilitation was required to achieve that won an important battle.
None required guarantee jobs for all direct employees, for all workers and industries to all employees who have long been at risk of dismissal, no wage guarantees in the face of a very serious situation workers who will pay even a trickle of cancer, no commitment to invest heavily in terms of environmental remediation and work friendly.
A Taranto instead to warn the mayor was just wondering Ezio Stefàno ARPA Puglia monitoring in the districts to make drums and Paul VI.
same time the judiciary has triggered an investigation by the police of Noe and Customs Agency. The objections of the judiciary depart from a survey of taxation: nearly six thousand tons of pet-coke, stored nell'Italcave seized for alleged irregularities.
The request stems from the Mayor's news that "for about a decade and until a few days ago, many trucks were used daily the handling of pet coke from the port to the place of storage (the Italcave, in the territory of Statte) and from there to various cement plants located in southern Italy, the first of the cementation of Taranto.
yet recorded in the collective agreement between unions and Cementir March 20, 2002, speaks of "protection systems", the Parties agree that the situations of conflict must not impair the function and service life of them against strange algorithms it comes to incentives and reward for the workers but no word on the pet-coke, not even a comment on the impact of the substance on the health of workers.
In addition to Puglia Cementir there are two other cement plants located in Barletta and Galatina. In the near Matera is one of the Italcementi cement plant. Taranto then would be a hub port for the handling of a highly carcinogenic substance such as pet-coke.
The statements by the Mayor of Taranto and the news of the kidnapping back to generate concern among the people. The criminal investigation began after the discovery of a consignment of pet-coke coming from the Gela plant, transited in Puglia for the market abroad. To investigators, that kind of Pet-coke would not be legal, surpassing the threshold of 6% sulfur.
The Carabinieri NOE of Lecce, have seized at a steel plant in Taranto, about 16,000 tons of pet-coke. The material is imported from the United States and intended to be blended with coal to produce metallurgical coke. Simultaneously, the military has denounced the legal representative of the factory for making pet-coke storage area without authorization on the disposal of underground water run-off, for lack of authorization to emissions into the atmosphere and illegal management of waste destined for a different use than expected.
To date we do not know in what terms we discussed the pet-coke Ilva and if someone has spoken out against its use in forming coke in a small group with investigative functions, which are discussed in closed session. None of this bodes well for the city of Taranto, the publicity of the members of this group and their work would provide more transparency to the citizens of Tarentum and the whole region of Puglia.
now - in the renewal of environmental permits (AIA) - institutions and technical bodies should set clear limits (and "Europe") for all pollutants, including pet-coke: they do?
GELA ENI
http://www.giustizia-amministrativa.it/WEBY2K/DettaglioRicorso.asp?val=200902462 http://www.giustizia-amministrativa.it/DocumentiGA/Palermo/Sezione%201/2008/200802436/Provvedimenti/200900011_03.XML
and use TAR/PA02462/2009 Cementirossi, Cutino, Portobello, Judge, Cementirossi, Fumane, VIA SEA Action TAR Legambiente Italcementi N. 02436/2008, Messina, Decree No 693 of 18 July 2008, ARPA
