A Sounding the alarm is once again the Environmentalist Movement Bat (that includes those associations Folgore and Demeter Trani chaired by Nunzio Di Lauro Roberto Caressa and Environment Association and / Bisceglie Life is led by Daniel Felice Sasso ).
And 'the website of the Ministry of Economic Development to bring three other well permit applications for research in the Adriatic Sea in southern Puglia, for which has already completed the bureaucratic process of the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) has been completed and Next Conference of the Services, so I'm just about to get the issue of the decree conferring.
The coast of Puglia "The Apulian coast has been targeted by companies to extract oil from the seabed oil and gas, are of easy access to all the lords of oil" having a negligible cost in terms of environmental compensation for royalties that oil companies must pay to the Regions and the government concerned by extraction of oil and gas in Italy are among the lowest in the world, "says President Sasso. Summing the area covered by the three instances of the Northern Petroleum would be very interested 1734.5 km square area where hydrocarbon research.
"In that regard, as Environmentalist Movement Bat we ask all coastal municipalities affected by these activities, are aware of? What measures put in place these municipalities to protect their coasts, of their sea and tourism that goes with it? - Adds Sasso - Ministries keep in mind that the Aarhus Convention signed on 25 June 1998 and ratified by Italy with Law no. 108 of 16 March 2001 states: "the objectives of the Convention is to guarantee the right of public participation in environmental decision-making activities, to help protect the right of everyone to live in an environment conducive to the health and human welfare. "
A Bisceglie the city council has officially expressed its refusal to such research, after the Puglia region in order to ensure maximum transparency and sharing with the territory about the expression of an opinion given on the work environment, had urged the administration city, as a coastal town in front of the area allowed to want to express their opinion and determination on the permit application. The city council did not hesitate to express the refusal of any authorization for the exploration permit in the municipality of hydrocarbons in all phases of the program of work already submitted by Petroleum Geo - Service Asia Pacific Ltd. Ote
The case was also presented a Parliamentary sen. Francesco Amoruso asking to "protect the coasts of Puglia through a more cautious than the vertiginous development of projects aimed at research of offshore hydrocarbons in the Adriatic".
