“We intervene to ask for an urgent information of the Minister of the Environment and to reiterate forcefully that the ordinance no. 1 of 2025 of the Commissioner Errigo cannot become a final sentence for the city of Crotone”. The M5S deputy declared it Vittoria Baldino intervening in the room on Wednesday 9 April.
“We are talking about a site of national interest among the most polluted in Europe, where for decades over a million tons of dangerous chemical waste have been buried – Baldino continues -. Waste which, according to a 2008 investigation, have even been used to build schools, public housing and the police headquarters. After 25 years of expectations and missed promises, now the extraordinary commissioner appointed by this government wants to impose that those poisons, A stone’s throw from the inhabited center, in the private landfill of Columbra.
The Calabrian deputy denounces a decision that “distorts all the commitments made in the institutional tables, ignores the appeals pending to the TAR, disavowed the indications of the same Ministry of the Environment and betrays the will of the local institutions and citizens”.
“The commissioner ordinance – remarks Baldino – does not protect public interest, but favors a plan that risks transforming itself into a millionaire affair for a few: from Eni, which would save up to 2 billion euros, to the ownership of the landfill Sovreco “https://catanzaro.gazzettadodelSud.it/articoli/cdrone/2025/04/10/sin-drotone-m5s-ciede-uni normative-urgent-al-government-and-the-recurrent-of-the-errigo-6b78a3cd-0071-4e2e-BD00-D207B93569B1/. “The” M5S today presented the fourth parliamentary question on the case and officially asks that the Minister of the Environment presents himself in the classroom to report. Defending a land that wants to raise your head, to shout that Crotone is not a landfill and is not a land to poison and then empty. We will be there to say that the dignity of a land is not buried under the waste, but defends itself, with courage, together “.