«The doubts that pushed us to resort to the TAR To deepen the Evaluation of the Via Commission of the Ministry of the Environment on the environmental impact of the bridge over the Straitfind one Effective bank also in the question presented by the European parliamentarians of Left, S&D and Verts/Ale at the Brussels Commission».
Supports him Giuseppe Falcomatàmetropolitan mayor of Reggio Calabriawhich in a joint note with The mayor of Villa San Giovanni Giusi Caminitireiterates how “the territories have the right to have guarantees and certainties, as well as local administrations the obligation to protect the environment and landscape and defend the rights of citizens in the awareness of duty to govern the phases of change”. “In Europe – explained Falcomatà – the battles arrive which, for some time, have been conducting in the area of the metropolitan city, together with the Municipality of Villa San Giovanni, not for ideological issues, but to protect the territory and defend the rights of its inhabitants ». Falcomatà said he was “comforted by the fact that, also in Brussels, on the impulse of the first signatory Pasquale Tridico and numerous MEPs of the Democratic Party and the Left, they advance perplexity on the lack of technical studies with respect to seismic risks, coastal erosion and the Interferences with the Natura 2000 areas of a mammoth work and a project that needs authorizations in derogation and somewhat uncertain economic sustainability ».
“The MEPs do well – the Metropolitan mayor said – to recall the risks reported by the administrations of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria and Villa San Giovanni relating to incompleteness, socio -economic impacts on the communities and the transparency deficit . The construction with progressive phases, as they highlight in their question, could lead to the dispersion of public resources and territorial imbalances, in contrast with the European territorial continuity strategy “.
“We do ours – added Giuseppe Falcomatà and Giusi Caminiti – the requests for clarification formulated to the European Commission invited to pronounce on the compliance of the project to the EU directives consider the presence of seismic faults, in particular the active one called” Cannitello “, and the absence specific studies on coastal erosion. In supporting the reasons of citizens and expropriations, the European Commission – reads finally – is asked even if, for the use of the EU funds, it was consulted with respect to the cost -benefit ratio of the Ponte sul Strait project, considering, above all, The existence of alternatives that could better guarantee both territorial continuity and compatibility with the objectives of the Green Deal “.