on the SIA 10 QUESTIONS SENT TO THE GOVERNOR OF RIETI Ill.mo Prefect of Rieti,
learn from a newspaper article that the Reatino provincial council unanimously approved the document drafted by the Commission on Productive Activities and Environment on the draft the logistics hub of Step Corese, reiterating the need, inter alia, that it is developed in full compliance with the environment. "
recall briefly what it is: the design of a logistics hub for six million cubic meters, a few Step Corese meters, with earthworks for several million cubic meters and the consequent disappearance of the hills, a valuable area in terms of landscape and equally valuable from the archaeological point of view, as indicated by the studies of Professor Maria Pia Muzzioli (Cures Sabini, 1980) Prof. Helga Di Giuseppe (Sabinensis Ager Revisited, 2000 - British Scholol at Rome) and Lazio (PTPR tables B and C, 2007).
In a nutshell, one of the largest Italian environmental devastation in one of the most beautiful areas of Latium, Sabina, and of course clearly suited to tourism development, cultural, agricultural and environmental sustainability.
E 'mission in our report which unfortunately is happening in exactly the opposite of the "full respect for the environment", as we shall show below, and then demand that the consortium Prefecture causing the immediate suspension of the work of the settlement itself, to be consistent with recent reported on the province itself, and especially since the legality of such work seems dubious.
1 - The law provides that before a plan that has national significance, such as Step Corese may begin the process of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). As one can easily see, the Strategic Environmental Assessment has never been made. We are in the legality? We are in full compliance with the environment? ".
2 - The law provides that before a plan of this importance, citizenship is made aware of the project to carry out independently by the proponents, their evaluations (participation). To date, the only document that was provided to the inhabitants of the area is an information brochure misleading. Misleading because the information is given on the draft does not reflect in any way with the project, as it is easy to see. We are within the law? We are in full compliance with the environment? ".
3 - The law provides that, before a project of this importance (six million cubic meters of built several hills swept away, earthworks for millions of cubic meters), the public can take part in public places, and after being well informed, the evaluation of impact environment. The participation of citizens in the policy choices of the territory is a very important turning point and landmark legislative and clearly marks the transition from an idea of \u200b\u200bthe government top-down decisions based on their participation in a democratic and modern era. This has never happened: there's no evidence of a public debate where they were invited all the inhabitants of Sabina, organized by a public body, where we were able to discuss the project in order to bind the project and attended by experts employed by the parties, can provide comprehensive and objective information. Instead, we have witnessed debates farce organized by excluding any dissenting voice. We are within the law? We are in full compliance with the environment? ".
4 - We are not aware that the Committee on Productive Activities and Environment in the province, despite a work of months, they listened to the organizations involved in environmental protection. They have not listened to national organizations, of great moral relevance and very popular as Legambiente, Italy Nostra and WWF, or organizations Sabina future as local and many others, that in a clear and public have long expressed doubts about the project and critical reflections on the location. Recall that these organizations are the natural partners of the institutions, in particular for projects that require particularly high in overt attention. Even in this case it is violated every rule of participation, with the simple and democratic method of exclusion of those who oppose. We are within the law? We are in full compliance with the environment? ".
5 - We understand, because we are the authors that there is a development plan that covers the entire province, largely taken from the sources of information, and that this development plan is based on the exploitation of tourism resources, environmental, wildlife, landscape, agricultural, crafts and culture of the province of Rieti. We understand, because we are the architects that the plan could provide jobs for thousands of people, similar to what happens in many other Italian regions and foreign countries, mainly based on micro-credit business, on the economic resources of the tourists and respect total territory. Have not even listened to the environmental organizations on the proposals is an economic loss for the entire province, and the Commission for Production and Environment, who have voluntarily excluded from the participatory process and the economic development of the provincial environmental organizations have done significant damage to its own citizens first, again violating the laws on participation in the major processes of land transformation. We are within the law? We are in full compliance with the environment? ". 6-
environmental impact study that was carried out before work, the consortium proponent has undertaken to investigate the area, from the archaeological point of view, with a series of technical means to date and adequate to the magnitude of 's work (GPR, Prediction maps, computerized data collection, geo-referencing system handheld, gps update maps, construction of three-dimensional models on a local scale, generation of DEM (digital elevation models) platform GIS, mapping of archaeological risk. We are not aware that these means have been used, as there appear to have been used modern means such as remote sensing, the method switch or geoelectric investigations, while there appears to have been massively employed a method of archaeological investigation as obsolete scotico surface and much more expensive than the modern media. We also know that one of the most prestigious schools of Archaeology in the world (the British School at Rome) has offered its cooperation to the study, indicating a financial commitment for the ridiculous method of investigation proposed (geophysicist) and infinitely less than the amount used to date. This collaboration has not been activated. Why? Again, the lack of implementation of commitments made for archaeological investigation, we are within the law? We are in full compliance with the environment? ".
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7 - We understand that the area that should rise to the industrial complex is indicated by the Landscape Territorial Plan of the Lazio region (Table C) as an area suited to the Cultural and Archaeological Park. So the area is not is the sum of archaeological sites, but a real archaeological site, and then a completely different concept, which can not be enclosed in a glass case but requires full protection. Were heard in respect of the Lazio region, archaeologists who drew up the plan? Local governments that own an archaeological site are protected by law. Caution must protect it regardless of the investigations. And 'what is happening? We are within the law? We are in full compliance with the environment? ".
8 - In relation to what is stated in the previous paragraph, we understand that, right in the middle of the road, ranging from the hills to the Tiber, and that in ancient times conjoined Cures Sabini to the river, have been found dozens of archeological findings that confirm that the road is not only rich in Roman settlements such as villas, farms, underground tombs, places of worship, cemeteries, wells, water percolation, but that such settlements are linked by a Roman road yet fully visible. All this confirms full indication of the Lazio region because the area is treated as a unique cultural and archaeological park, and then as an asset to the area and its tourist and cultural. The production activities and environmental committee is aware of this local wealth, the source of economic productivity and environmental protection, or they wanted to ignore its existence? The Committee has assessed the possibility that the study area produce income for the province since its existence as an archaeological site? There is a publication on this? We are within the law? We are in full compliance with the environment? ".
9 - In a signed Legambiente, Italy Nostra, WWF and others, made public recently as a poster and circulated to the media by electronic means, it was shown that all the officials that focused on the 'area (University Rome British School at Rome, Regione Lazio, CNR), even agree on the precise physical location of the archeological findings in the area, even after many years and studies with very different techniques. The Commission for Production and Environment of the province, claiming to act in an environmentally safe, there is not even have listened to the sources quoted. This omission is legal? We are in full compliance with the environment? ".
10 - The concept of environment, which is mentioned as to be met in the Commission, can be articulated in various ways, and certainly as natural, cultural or social. To date there is no news of respect for the environment in any of his joints. Imagine that it is so in full compliance with the rule of law institutions.
A note about who is responsible for what: that the area is an archaeological site known since 1980, the time of publication of the first major study of the area, "Cures Sabini," edited by Prof. MP Muzzioli. This study has added to that of 2000 by the British School at Rome and then the Plan of the Lazio Region in 2007.
Delays in implementing the project are then due to the desire to build an industrial area on the archaeological area clearly.
Who is responsible for this choice, placing the entire province in a state of delay and the impossibility to implement the project without creating a serious environmental damage and that will have devastating consequences on every case of tourism development in the area, he throws the consequences and not blames delays if not to himself.
Legambiente Lower Sabine, the directors
Cultural Association Sabina Futura
