Regasifier under the house at the Giorgino Fishing Village: the appeal in Strasbourg

Mariano Strazzeri is determined to move forward in his battle: the future regasification plant will be built less than four hundred meters from his home, in the Villaggio Pescatori di Giorgino, on the outskirts of Cagliari. For this reason he turned to the European Court of Human Rights and the complaint was filed today in Strasbourg.

Technically, this is an appeal against the decree of the Ministry of Ecological Transition of 24 March 2021, which expressed a positive opinion on the environmental compatibility of the regasification terminal project near the port of Cagliari. Strazzeri is represented by the lawyer Andrea Mensi, professor of international law at the University of Bologna, and had already turned to the TAR and the Council of State, but the complaint was rejected.

In the provision filed in Strasbourg, explains the lawyer, «the lack of adequate guarantees for the health of the appellant is denounced, whose home is located less than 400 meters from the regasification terminal, while similar plants in Europe are normally located several kilometers away from the inhabited centers". The lawyer then specifies: «There is a strong awareness of the energy and environmental importance of the regasifier for the purposes of decarbonization and, in fact, it is not an appeal against the project». «However - the lawyer further underlines - the international standards established by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Aahrus Convention establish particularly stringent requirements on the reduction of risks to human health and the environment and on the duty to provide complete environmental information, requirements that we believe were not fully respected in the case in question. We are confident, in any case, in the possibility of an agreement to review the project in such a way as to protect the residents of the Fishermen's Village".

The appeal, which is particularly complex, will now have to pass the admissibility phase which will last approximately 12 months and which sees over 90% of complaints declared inadmissible every year. From that moment the examination on the merits will begin.

(Unioneonline)