WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Sicilia Libertaria 4/2023: christmas: THE GOVERNMENT OF OIL (ca, de, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]

 The latest news in the Priolo ISAB affair is the forfeiture of the second Meloni

decree, the one which, skimming over prejudicial unconstitutionality, silenced
the Syracusan judiciary on the seizure of the IAS purifier. In its place, an
overt rescue operation, bordering on a criminal complaint, contained in the
interministerial decree signed on March 17 by ministers Urso, of Made in Italy,
and Pichetto Fratin, of the environment. What made in Italy and what
environmental protection we are talking about can be read in the declarations of
the two ministers, aimed on the one hand at reassuring the new buyers of ISAB -
the Israeli-Cypriot oil companies of Goy Energy (and in fact a week earlier the
minister Urso had flown to Israel to pay homage to the para-fascist government of
Netanyahu) - and on the other hand to waive the seizure order by as much as 36
months, which has been awaited for over ten years, because the purifier, the
source of death and repeated environmental disasters, is an "infrastructure
necessary to ensure the production continuity of the plants". Soon, with the
"made in Italy" Israelis at Urso, the secret agents of the Mossad, well known for
their quick methods, will also arrive to replace the mafiosi hired by Lukoil in
the guard service. A very Italian procedure, indeed - if we also include the
blessing and the lost money promised by Governor Schifani - very Sicilian. And
the Syracusan judiciary? As always, he adjusts.

This concern of the Italian government for saving the most polluting plants,
those running on oil, at a time when in Europe it is forced to accept the squeeze
on fuels and "green" houses, can only have three different reasons: either the
manifest inadequacy of the two ministers (that of Pichetto Fratin has long been
established) or the too frequent relationships of President Meloni and other
members of her government (Giorgetti, Crosetto ...) with ENI and with the energy
multinationals (to be clear, those in which the previous Draghi government wanted
to tax extra profits), or - and this is the most plausible hypothesis - the
desire to anticipate the state aid that Ursula Von der Layen announced at the
Davos Forum on 17 January last. On that occasion, the European Commission put an
end to the false masking of the intervention of the Member States in the economy,
to subsidize banks and companies (which for banks has been operational since the
aftermath of the global crisis of 2008, and recurs cyclically, while for
companies today translates into orders for the creation of the PNRR), which was
however possible to grasp in the G20 documents since the summer of 2020.

Only, and this is the point, that such aid should allow banks and companies to
compete with the United States and China, which have already been generously
financing their industrial systems in the energy transition for some time, and
not the oil multinationals (and least of all the searches for new hydrocarbons
with invasive land and sea methods, always authorized by the Meloni government),
whose fossil extractions are among the main causes of climate change. Certainly
not the resumption of crude oil refining at the Priolo ISAB.

There is probably great confusion in the Italian government, and even more in its
assistant Schifani, who has unfortunately taken office in the Sicilian Region.
The minister-joke Pichetto Fratin recently tried to reduce it, so to speak, who,
the day after the rescue of ISAB, launched the proposal to build "clean"
mega-plants (for the production of biofuels and the treatment of 'hydrogen, for
the manufacture of latest generation photovoltaic panels and, we can bet, to
reintroduce nuclear power) thanks to which the government and its energy partners
will be able to easily manage and control the "green" energy used in the country.
The real aim is to prevent the sliding into "anarchy" of self-consumption groups
and self-sufficient energy communities, increasingly widespread and combative, of
which, moreover, the same minister is attempting in a clumsy way - as usual - the
recovery and caging, imposing abstruse regulations and production limitations for
the energy market. The latter, for a long time to come, will have to remain the
prerogative of friends on duty, in Sicily yesterday the Russians of Lukoil today
the Israelis of Goy.

Musarra Christmas

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