Arrè 'cu 'this bullshit about the nuclear waste repository? Again,again. But maybe it's the right time that we at least get rid of theuseless discussions. And, why not, let's look at this story from aperspective of resistance and relaunching the struggle. But let's go inorder. On 13 December 2023, the Ministry of the Environment and EnergySecurity (oh well) publishes on its website the list of areas suitablefor the location of the National Repository for radioactive waste: theseare 51 areas, distributed in 47 Municipalities, which to them once theyare scattered across 6 different regions: Piedmont, Lazio, Basilicata,Puglia, Sardinia and Sicily. A first version of the National Charter ofSuitable Areas (CNAI) was made known silently in January 2021, wherethere was talk of potentially suitable areas, identified according tocertain criteria (scientific, geographical, environmental) by Sogin, thestate company in charge the decommissioning of old nuclear plants andthe safety of current low- and medium-level radioactive waste andhigh-intensity waste that Italy has so far always exported abroad. Inall, around 78 thousand cubic meters of nuclear waste, which takes froma few hundred years (as if it were a short time) to thousands of yearsto decay. Since Italy officially chose not to have anything to do withnuclear energy, that is, with the popular referendums of 1987, the wastefrom old power plants and that of new production, deriving fromscientific research, industry and healthcare, they continued toaccumulate because Italy, unlike many other European countries, hasnever equipped itself with a structure to store this waste. For sometime, however, the European Union has been pressuring individual memberstates to resolve the issue internally. And so here we are with thechoice of mid-December by the Meloni government, always ready to portrayitself as sovereignist and actually willing to swallow every diktat ofthe EU. An acceleration, the newspapers defined it, but in reality fromJanuary 2021 to December 2023 the areas that went from potential tosuitable went from 67 to 51, and in these three years what the state hasreceived is the opposition of all the places identified. Perhaps it'sthe fault of the trick used, i.e. the promise that in addition to thewarehouse, a "technological park" would also be built (a park is nowalso used for industrial wind power plants), and so on with jobs, perksand compensation . Nobody believed it, or more likely the municipaladministrations did not have the courage to present themselves to thepopulations with such toxic gifts. On the other hand, it should reallybe everyone who decides on this wonderful waste storage joke, triviallybecause its cost, 900 million euros, will be financed through theelectricity bill. And to this must be added another potential billion ofeuros, destined, Sogin writes, for "research projects of the technologypark, through public and private funding". Considering that in Italythere are no private individuals in the field of nuclear technologiescapable of tackling projects of this kind, and that even if they existedthey would pass on the costs of such operations to the public as do allthe energy companies that have their infrastructure paid for by thestates, this is a truly worrying design. Or not? The doubt arises, evenamong us in Sicily, if we consider that for example in the update of thesuitable areas in December the places of Trapani and Calatafimi-Segestaremained. From the Trapani comrades and the "infiltrators" of theSicilian Region we know that once again the institutions intend tooppose this will. So far, however, the reasons for this ostracism havebeen limited to indicating the protection of the tourist andagricultural prerogatives of these territories, but this appears to be alimited observation and exclusively focused on economic issues, whilemore significant and broader aspects such as the protection of theenvironment, the guarantee of public health and the self-determinationof populations. There is still time to organize a broader protest which,in addition to opposition to waste, will trigger a new season of socialdemands. And in this case we must not forget how much good has alreadybeen built over the decades. Despite years of growing pressure fromright-wing governments, public bodies such as ENEA and companies such asEni, nuclear energy is still largely a minority in Italy. And this isdue to a continuous pressure action on the part of the territorialcommittees, the environmentalist world and scientific research, whichhave always kept the level of guard high and revealed the mostsensational distortions. Just as the issue of the waste storage itselfhas been dragging on for 30 years precisely because of the toughgeneralized opposition to what is the most classic of authoritarianimpositions. Once the definitive area for the storage has beenidentified - it could take the whole of 2024, because the Melonigovernment is rooting for the territory of Trino, in the Piedmont area,where there is a Northern League mayor who, to please his masters, wantsto make people swallow the waste who voted for it, but it would reallybe a leap of faith because there are no conditions to carry out the workin that territory, which not surprisingly had also been excluded bySogin - the works for the construction of the depot and the park willhave a expected to last approximately four years and then theoreticallyenter into operation by 2029. In short, the fight is still long andabove all it can be won. "We have to find a solution, this governmentwants to do it, and will store the waste" said Environment MinisterFratin recently. As with the bridge over the strait, the decisive fightto overthrow this government and its bullshit can come from Sicily.https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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