the minister of the Atmosphere has signed decrees that riperimetra the Site of National Interest of Livorno



The Municipality of Livorno has announced that the minister of the Atmosphere, Gian Luca Galletti, has finally signed Decreto that riperimetra the Site of National Interest (Until) of Livorno opening new lease on life to the development of the city port and to the many productive activities of the area. The communal agency has emphasized that the signature has reached after longest the technical job and irto of difficulty, thanks to the arranged job of the Municipality with the Tuscany Region and the support of Harbour Authority of Livorno and Confindustria Livorno.

It is a news - the mayor and the city council member to the Atmosphere of the Municipality of Livorno, Alessandro Cosimi have commented today and Massimo Gulì - "than it does not catch off guard to us, but that it very makes us to hope for the future of a strategic node of the Municipality of Livorno, which is the port, for which already it is adopted town-planning varying and it turns out in phase of conclusion its approval. A thanks goes to the member of parliament Silvia Velo, undersecretary to the Atmosphere, than it has been demonstrated sensitive to the expectations of the city on this topic. A fact - they have specified Cosimi and Gulì - that reorganizes also the within of the environmental issues: in fact the passage of the competences from Ministry of the Atmosphere to Region Tuscany, not varying also nothing at the level of the reclamation activities, gives back a zone (about six square kilometers) whose pollution levels effectively found on the land are not considered elevated so to make to permanere the area riperimetrata in a site of national interest. The areas of Eni and Enel are maintained in the Site of National Interest, while the other areas to earth and the harbour internal waters are excluded all for which he will be simpler to proceed with the indispensable dredgings in order to give back the maximum functionality to the port of Livorno. With regard to marine waters, there is an sensitive decrease of the areas subordinates to Until with a greater limitation towards wide and the exclusion, for example, of the zones in which the bathtubs are located of overwhelmed".

Now - they have concluded the mayor and the city council member - "it will be indispensable that the Tuscany Region, together with the municipal administration and to all the competent subjects in this matter, defines time shortly to discipline procedural technician in which all necessary the technical and administrative passages are formalized clearly, in the optical of the simplification that it does not mean to leave the harbour atmosphere in the conditions in which it finds, but that it affords to operate with sure times in the interest of the atmosphere and the sustainability of our territory".