The project to build a new Liquefied Natural Gas storage facility in the Darsena Petroli of the Port of Naples, proposed by Edison and Kuwait, has received a negative opinion from the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security.
The aforementioned Ministry, together with the Ministry of Culture, has decreed that the project is not compatible with the constraints on environmental impact.
According to the technical commission, the current master plan for the port of Naples does not include the construction of a coastal depot and the proposal for the LNG plant conflicts with one of the founding objectives of the general variant, namely the relocation of oil depots from the eastern area, and is incompatible with the objective of redeveloping the area: “Pending the new location and for the time strictly necessary for this purpose, transformations aimed exclusively at improving safety and environmental impact are permitted.”
Again according to the commission: in this area of the city port, which falls in particular within the border of the eastern area of Naples, there is no “interventions that lack urban planning compatibility may be carried out”. It is also specified that: “adverse impacts on environmental sectors have been detected” and that the intervention falls within a restricted area such as coastal territories within a 300-metre strip from the shoreline.
Hence the negative opinion of the Technical Commission VIA and VAS on the environmental compatibility of the LNG depot in the port of Naples.
“Stopping this project represents a great victory for all those who look to the good of the community, the territory and the environment.”– declares the deputy of the Green-Left alliance Francesco Emilio Borrelli- “I opposed this project from the beginning, when I was a regional councilor, because there are too many environmental risks associated with it. In that area there is already the Petroli Terminal, the fuel depots, the power plant, there is no need for additional plants that put the health of the environment and citizens at risk.”
"Instead, there is a need and urgency for redevelopment projects aimed at raising the level of quality of life through a new recreational activity, sustainable shipyards and recovered spaces to be delivered to citizens and tourists, clean sea and beaches. This area must be able to restart with a green economy and linked to tourism after a long period of abandonment, as demonstrated by our numerous inspections, carried out over the years due to bad politics and bad bureaucracy."– concluded Borrelli.
Article published on May 25, 2023 - 12:25 pm
