Dear energy, the parliamentarians unite: «Sardinia penalized, the Government must intervene»
Meeting with deputies, senators, regional councilors at Portovesme srl. Pais: «High costs put at risk the continuity of industrial production and, consequently, jobs»
Michele Pais' speech at the meeting (Photo Press Office)
Sardinian parliamentarians and regional councilors unite to ask the government for measures to reduce the "severe gap" in terms of energy supply between the island and the rest of Italy . An appeal accompanied by a request for measures to counter high energy prices.
Deputies, senators and representatives of regional institutions met at Portovesme srl, during a conference organized by Confindustria Sardegna Meridionale .
A meeting attended by the president of the Sardinian Assembly Michele Pais and, in video connection, the regional councilor for Industry Anita Pili . With them Senator Sabrina Licheri (M5S), her pentastellate colleague Alessandra Todde , Pd MP Silvio Lai , Avs MP Francesca Ghirra , Ugo Cappellacci (Fi), Salvatore Deidda and Gianni Lampis (Fdi) and Alessandra Zedda , ex Councilor for Labor of the Solinas junta.
During the initiative, the managing director of Portovesme srl, Davide Garofalo , focused attention on the fact that since 2021 the production and employment situation of the companies "has been put to the test by energy price increases".
Today for the company, underlined the CEO, the costs for electricity "have reached percentages of over 70% of total costs and for the zinc line this fork has gone from 34% to 86%".
Hence a series of requests to the institutions, and in particular to the government, all with the aim of making the island compete on equal terms.
Among the requests put forward is that of «verifying the possibility of re-proposing the super-interruptibility tool for energy-intensive companies in Sardinia and Sicily; to equate the aid recognized up to now to Italian gas-intensive companies to Sardinian industrial users not served by methane".
«The high costs - stated the president Pais as he opened the works - put at risk the continuity of the industrial production and, consequently, the jobs. Today from Sulcis there is yet another cry of alarm addressed to the national government».
M5S deputy Alessandra Todde asked for a commitment from the company not to close the San Gavino plant and to ensure business continuity for at least ten years.
“I will immediately bring the requests to the table of the Minister of Economic Development Urso and we will organize a meeting with Enel and all the Sardinian parliamentarians,” said the Fdi deputy Deidda instead.
Francesca Ghirra instead recalled that the Chamber has accepted an agenda to modify the criteria for assigning energy at controlled cost, giving greater priority to companies operating in Sardinia and Sicily.
For dem Lai, action must already be taken during the conversion of the Aiuti quater decree and with the subsequent budget law: «We are asking – he said – to put Sardinian industry in the same conditions in the face of obvious disparities. And even the Region, emerging from a chronic torpor, will have to support the Sardinian parliamentarians in the initiative".
(Unioneonline/lf)
