“It is not the first time that the government challenges rules approved by the Regional Council. Whenever he did it, despite being a government of my own political color, we opposed the Constitutional Court. Sometimes we won, as happened for the two NCC laws, We will oppose this time too. It is clear that the relations with Minister Calderoli are evidently no longer those who were at the beginning of the legislature ».
He said it Roberto Occhiutopresident of the Calabria Region, in relation to the government’s decision to challenge the regional regulation on the Mercure plant in front of the Constitutional Court with respect to which Occhiuto came to the point of threatening resignation before the possible insertion of a repeal proposal.
“Every time the government has challenged regional laws – added Occhiuto – We were made before the Constitutional Court and sometimes we won; Meanwhile, we have not given the rules as it is right that it is, because you have to have the right institutional respect and towards the government and towards the Constitutional Court, which will decide. As far as I’m concerned, I am absolutely convinced that in the most beautiful park in Europe a biomass electric power plant should not be there, it seems to me an elementary consideration. I already told the mayors last year, when we resolved. to be available to replace the Royalties of Sorgenia to the Municipalities for interventions, however, in favor of the park, for interventions that promoted the environment and tourism. The Region is also available to develop other activities that can generate work for cooperatives and green companies that want to develop tourism. The employees of the plant are substantially 22. Then there are the companies that bring their material in the biomass plant, but there are other biomass plants in Calabria which import 50% of the material they use: therefore, evidently, the market in Calabria There would also be for this enterprise. The truth is that there is a large company, which is Sorgenia, which rightly does its work by defending the investments that in the past have been allowed in a park that in my opinion did not have to accommodate such an investment “.