These are our reasons:
Following request for extension of 2.6 million cubic meters , the landfill already in place Columbro located in Crotone, advanced by the firm in January 2007 SOVRECO spa Crotone, is established by the express civic movement called "No to the landfill .
The Movement "No to Landfill" oltre a chiedere alle istituzioni locali (Provincia e Comune) di attivarsi per scongiurare il possibile ampliamento della discarica di località Columbra, situata nelle adiacenze del centro abitato di Poggio Pudano che comprende abitazioni, chiese, seminario, istituti di cura, albergo, attività commerciali e nuovi insediamenti residenziali, ha avviato una petizione popolare “Per la tutela della salute dei cittadini, per il recupero del territorio e per uno sviluppo sostenibile della provincia di Crotone” e che prevede al primo punto impegni precisi e concreti per impedire l’ampliamento della discarica già sita in località Columbra in Crotone (Poggio Pudano).
Ad Today more than 12,000 signatures were collected.
Our opposition is concerned, not only the request for extension of the landfill Columbro, but also calls for construction of a waste sorting plant, as in Crotone has already created a system of this kind at Ponticello, used, among other things, partially because, as you should incorporate Municipal Solid Waste in the 27 municipalities of the province of Crotone, the company that manages the collection of mixed MSW of most of these municipalities, to receive such waste to landfill del privato.
Intendiamo, inoltre, evidenziare, come riportato nella relazione conclusiva del Commissario per l’emergenza ambientale nel territorio della regione Calabria, prefetto Antonio Ruggiero, del 24 gennaio 2007, dove si legge: “la sola discarica di Crotone, di proprietà della ditta SOVRECO, accoglie un quarto del totale dei rifiuti prodotti regionalmente e oltre la metà di quelli che finiscono in discarica come tal quale, provenienti in gran parte dai comuni della provincia di Cosenza, per una popolazione complessiva di circa 515.000 abitanti (il 25% della popolazione calabrese)”, in practice, most of the production of MSW in the province of Cosenza is sent to landfill in the province of Crotone, with the consequence of increasing costs, increasing the overall environmental pollution, increase the number of landfills in our area, not to respect the European and Italian regulations prohibiting the dumping of MSW talquali.
In conclusion, the application of private to increase the capacity of its landfill, so as to realize a new system of selection, certainly not motivated by the need to address the need Crotone area, but by the diretto di un privato che “più smaltisce e più guadagna”, nonché dall’incapacità dei vari commissari per l’emergenza ambientale che si sono susseguiti in Calabria negli ultimi dieci anni.
Ciò che chiediamo è il rispetto del principio di autosufficienza e del principio di prossimità così come stabilito dal Decreto Legislativo 5 febbraio 1997, n. 22 (Legge Ronchi) e recepito dal Piano di gestione dei rifiuti.
Riteniamo, infatti, che ogni Calabrian province to dispose exclusively on its territory the waste produced there.
We ask also that from now on we start to plan for the chain of integrated waste management can be completed with the same waste processing plants. Only then we could finally turn waste into resources and do not experience them only as a threat.
We also believe that the revival and progress of the Crotone area can and must go through the reclamation of all polluted sites, monitoring and environmental monitoring throughout the continuum of Crotone and not only areas at risk, to defend and protect the health and welfare of citizens.
to injury, insult :
In response to a series of initiatives that have accompanied mobilization to prevent the expansion of the landfill location Columbro, last October 31 by order No. 6305 (10/31/2007), the Deputy Commissioner for Emergency environment in the territory of Calabria, has authorized an extension, 260,000 cubic meters. height of the landfill already in place Columbro located in Crotone, where abbancare wastes that come from public municipalities throughout the region Calabria.
To counter this absurd and dangerous act of the Commissioner, the Movement "No to Landfill", has started a relay hunger strike to demand the immediate withdrawal of the Ordinance.
we have to emphasize, first, the strange mingling of the date of enactment of the Ordinance October 31, 2007 and the expiration of the term commissioner October 31, 2007.
This coincidence, it appears to us, driven and biased toward the mobilization put in place to prevent a doubling in the city (2 million 600 thousand cubic meters of waste in several) of a landfill for years to dispose of waste from all over the Calabria region and beyond, operated by a private and located near a village (neighborhood Pudano Poggio - Crotone).
The movement, in addition to a series of measures to combat, mobilization of popular and institutional meetings sought more than 12,000 signatures from citizens of the province of Crotone to prevent the doubling of that landfill.
We believe, threaten the democratic seal of our country, than that for the province of Crotone, but for the whole region of Calabria, appears to be the mother of all problems : environmental protection and public goods.
A scheme commissioner, in fact, does not provide discussion and analysis with the territory, but final and peremptory orders.
judge also weak position of inaction taken by the Town Council of the city, even today, recess without taking clear positions against the extension and scandalous against the order of the Commissioner for environmental emergency However, authorizes a project to extend the height of the landfill.
We are particularly noted that, contrary to what happens in the rest of our country, where the mayors are often at the head of the struggles for civil defense, the mayor of the city of Crotone not take any decision Journal.
From Monday, November 19, 2007 at the headquarters of ARCI Crotone Province has launched a permanent garrison Democrat to call for an immediate lifting of that order and commissioner to launch a series of initiatives to combat, culminating in a regional event that the Movement intends to call as a guideline for December 15, 2007 at Crotone.
The event, which we intend to promote, will involve all the movements and territorial conflicts in our region, aiming to raise issues related to environmental protection Calabria region (land reclamation, protection of common resources, the coast of aggression, etc..), starting from a no loud and clear to any extension, height and width of the landfill already situated in the locality Columbro in Crotone. At the same demonstration to demand the protection of all commons, water, health and education. Demonstrations to demand rights and respect for the dignity of work in Crotone, in Calabria in southern Italy, the rights of men and women migrants.
record, to date, membership of social forces (CGIL, CISL, UIL), some of the economic structures of representation (the CIA and the League of Cooperatives), the Archbishop and of the many associations and the many citizens living movement.
invite, again, all political, social, cultural and institutional, as well as all citizens, to join our fight to defend the territory and the quality of life of all citizens of Calabria.
Civic Movement
"No Landfill"
