Failure to request the availability of landfills in which to dispose of hazardous waste free of Tenorm and asbestos; neglect of the “considerations” of local authorities; and incorrect interpretation of the “principle of proximity” for the indication of the Columbra plant where the dangerous waste from the former industrial area of Crotone will be transported. These are some of the reasons that led the Province to ask the TAR of Calabria to cancel, subject to suspension, the decree with which last August 1st the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, approving the cancellation of Pob Phase 2, authorized Eni Rewind to deliver the hazardous waste, without Tenorm and asbestos, from the Sin di Crotone reclamation to the Sovreco landfill.
The Mase, as is known, gave the OK to the company managed by Paolo Grossi to transfer 362 thousand tons of dangerous waste present in the former Pertusola seafront landfill to the Columbra plant from October. While the remaining 397 thousand tons of non-hazardous waste will be disposed of in facilities outside Calabria. Above all, the Province accuses ISPRA of not having requested “the availability” of facilities to “receive hazardous waste” free of Tenorm and asbestos. Not surprisingly, reports the lawyers’ appeal Silvana Tassone And Marina Cizza“the companies responded scrupulously following the questions” of the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research “referring to hazardous waste containing asbestos with or without Tenorm with the exception of Sovreco”. Which, “after explaining that it is not authorized to dispose of dangerous waste containing asbestos and Tenorm, added the (unsolicited) information relating to the ability to receive dangerous waste without Tenorm and asbestos”.
