The clash is hidden, like the heavy metals that the drilling barge is probing in the shallows of the industrial port of Sulcis. That auger positioned on a patched-up raft for submarine cores has been searching the stretch of water on which the long shadow of the chimney of the Enel power station in Portovesme reverberates for days. We look for the stratigraphy of poisons, those sunk for decades in the sea in front of one of the most polluted areas in Italy. In that basin that has become a port without depths, the poisons are there, but no one is able or willing to measure them.
The dance of poisons
More than certain data, every survey in front of the east quay reveals oscillations of all kinds, so much so that now it seems to be the dispute between the Industrial Consortium of Carbonia-Iglesias and the company that makes recourse to that sad hole deep underwater. back in 2016 it was awarded, without ever starting them, the works for the excavation of the industrial port. The conflict, ready to land in the courtrooms, on the piles of lead and zinc accumulated in the seabed of Portovesme, however, is nothing compared to the war that is being unleashed on the environmental disaster and on the repercussions on human health of that regasification plant that Snam, for account of the Draghi government, he would like to place in the inaccessible eastern quay of the industrial port of the deep Sulcis. Holy war, with doors in the face, and dramatic admissions that reopen in a bloody way the never healed wound of the industrial pollution of this raped and abandoned area.
Clash over health
The clash is titanic, on the one hand the Higher Institute of Health, the highest authority in public health, and on the other Snam, the company which, in agreement with the Government, would like to give a sop to gas. the only region in Europe without methane. After the unedifying chapter of a gigantic ship, costing 269 million euros, to be transformed from a gas carrier to a floating regasifier, the Golar Arctic, which cannot enter port due to the lack of sufficient seabed, now is the turn of such a bloody matter what has been forgotten: the health of workers, citizens and the environment. A “Portovesme” chapter that reopens with the virulence of devastating data that on the health level should make anyone jump. The dossier that was to remain segregated in the rooms of the "Eco-Aeolian" Ministry of Transition ended up in the investigation pages of our newspaper with the publication of that cutting opinion of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità: that regasifier placed in the middle of the industrial port "Determines an additional contribution to the environmental concentrations of pollutants in the air".
