«The project will soon land at the Cipess and in compliance with the required standards. A work destined to change the face of the country. I hope that the policy of the no regardless can finally end ». He said it Matteo Salvini, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, during the Question Time in the Chamber, intervening about the project on the Strait of Messina Bridge. “I remember – added Salvini – that the project compatibility procedure of the project was completed on 13 November with the positive opinion of the Via -Vas Technical Commission”.
«Compared to the evaluation of the environmental incidence procedural additions to three sites of community interest were requested “ As requested by the Habitat Directive, Salvini continued that “the concessionaire company has already followed with the transmission” to the Via-Vas Technical Commission “of the deepening documentation relating to the provided for compensation measures which are now for its attention”.
“It is imminent” then the sending to the European Commission “of the further additions regarding the certificates of the ‘imperative reasons of significant public interest which makes the realization of the work priority for the Member State’. Also on these documents the via-vas commission will have to express itself before sending the European Commission. At the end of these checks, all technical and contractual documentation may be presented at the Cipess, “concluded Salvini.
Bonelli’s reply
«Minister Salvini, it is not true that the project of the bridge over the Strait will soon be at Cipess. The environmental impact assessment (Vinca) has given negative opinion, and you insist on carrying it forward ignoring that the work falls on environmentally valuable areas bound by the European Union she says that the project was evaluated by many technicians. But which one? There is no public technical body that has validated it. Will the Cipess evaluate it, but with what credibility, if the commission in charge consists of seven people without specific skills? Can we trust the Strait Society of Messina or a scientific committee of dubious independence? ». He says Angelo Bonelli, addressing in question time to the Chamber to the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Matteo Salvini.
«She claims to have talked about infrastructure with vice-president Vance. Considering that Trump defined the European parasites, I would like to remember that the real parasitic policies are those of those who remove, money on the roads, hospitals, schools in our country to carry out a useless work. This project subtracts 15 billion to Italy without real benefits. – Bonelli continues – Even in his League, that of the North, there are those who do not want it. She damages the South, removing resources from schools and railways for a work that not even the Superior Council of Public Works can examine. Why do you keep him hidden, Mr. Minister? We have to work in the name of the public interest and that’s why the theme of the Cipess is a very serious problem: who will give the green light? Giorgia Meloni? Do you have competence in the field of bridges? You are doing a huge forcing ».