After Modugno now it's Borgo Tressanti slag former Enichem have also ended up in Brindisi.
To be more precise: the part of the waste arising from the petrochemical Siponto and the explosion of the tower filled with arsenic in 1976 and land on the island crammed wildly under 16 were collected, transported and disposed of in industrial waste incineration platform
Tmt
present in the industrial area of \u200b\u200bBrindisi, up to a year ago
Termomeccanica spa, today the French Veolia
. All TMT has done with his
hypothermic
srl. This is the platform that today, since March 5 last year, is partly sequestered by the public prosecutor of Brindisi, which has put the seal on: car emission monitoring of the incinerator, 8 vertical tanks of 25 cubic meters each containing liquid wastes, and about 1000 drums of an unknown either source or content. The road leading to the disposal site of the platform along a forest of smokestacks and silos, the items in the industrial area of \u200b\u200bBrindisi is very rich. The incinerators shall be separated from the landfill by about twenty meters, connected by an old road used until a few months ago from trucks full of the remains of the oven. The multipurpose platform today seized is owned by the
SisR
, the consortium that manages the area of \u200b\u200bindustrial development in the city. The plant is thought of in 1986: the contract to design, build and operate the spa Termomeccanica won, a company that has offices in Italy in La Spezia, Milan, Naples, Rome, Taranto. The site was funded by the then case of the South with 100 billion old lire, and stated: incinerators, landfills and sewage treatment plant used in the disposal process. Of these three works, even if financed the third was never implemented. In exchange for management, Thermomechanical and until recently, Veolia, to recognize SisR a restaurant, probably calculated on the gain obtained by the company with each tonne of input waste for disposal. The hazardous waste incinerators for hazardous toxic and dangerous hospital went into operation between 2004 and 2005. The landfill is closed well before the Noe Lecce did you visit: the reason is that it has run about five years and until now the province of Brindisi has not granted the proposed expansion of the company and also from the same well regarded SisR. An expansion project that would in fact set up a new landfill with a capacity greater than that of the original. The existing site was designed and sold for a total capacity of 160 thousand cubic meters and classified as "2C", that can accommodate the remains of toxic wastes such as those from Manfredonia. A great site, when it was open only for features across the South. The provision began in 1998 and ended by exhaustion of space between 2003 and 2004. Five instead of 10 years estimated in the original project. This is the first point not clear whether the landfill is full of five years and if it is true - in the view of the Rocky foreman hypothermic al'Attacco March 26 of 2009 - that the company has worked to reclaim the island of La Spezia 16 in Siponto site during the seizure of the island (dated 2007), then it is not clear where they were and whether they were disposed of the waste once brought to Brindisi. Waiting for an answer to this question, we put another one there: How was it possible that a toxic waste landfill Calibrated to last ten years is only half lived? Well-informed local sources say that the site, along with incineration plant would have served primarily for the disposal of waste from many industrial activities in the industrial area of \u200b\u200bBrindisi. This did not happen and he would have made a "mismanagement" in the words of a professional Brindisi extremely knowledgeable on the subject: "industrial and sanitary waste would be channeled from all over Italy, the site of the TMT, Veolia today." But the short duration of the landfill would also depend on another factor: the way you used the oven incinerators. Designed to incinerate 35,000 tons of waste a year that also produced huge oven Energy: four megawatts a year, part of which intended. This, too, as the dump is stopped for more than four months: the Regional Minister for the Environment has suspended Michael Losappio the Integrated Environmental Authorisation (IEA) - which would have expired December 31, 2009 - I was waiting for his date old technology. Today SisR is struggling because the incinerators to be reopened, Ernesto Favuzzi Legambiente provincial president disagrees. "We are opposed to the reopening of the oven, if not with the required updates from the region. True, it closed last February left 28 people without jobs, 28 fathers family, but we believe that quell'impianto today is probably the most dangerous of all of Brindisi. " To remember the tragedy of these workers at the gates of the incinerators are the flags of the unions, whose fabric is tested by time and wind. The technology with which it was built is now archeology: the waste is placed inside a fixed-bed combustion chamber, ie the material burning (note: used syringes from the slag of arsenic) is downloaded onto a fixed plane under which high-temperature flames flare up. In contrast, the new methods include combustion chambers with rotating drum or fluidized bed, to allow a real and its centrifugal waste incineration and their best. The purpose of incineration is to make inert (ie harmless, as far as possible) the waste and then disposed of in special landfill the ashes and all that can not be burned. More elements we are given by a professional who prefers to remain anonymous Brindisi. "The law distinguishes between the waste entering into this type of organic and inert, and requires that the ash percentage of the organisms can not exceed 3% of the total. To date, there have been no apparent control by the owner of the entity, ie SisR. It is plausible to consider that in the landfill over the years is gone a much higher percentage of 3%, and going by logic, that occurred because the waste could not have been burned properly and were removed from the combustion chamber ahead of time. " To summarize, then: in the landfill incinerators Brindisi - in which they arrived for a time and quantity / quality do not waste as defined by Manfredonia - could have been caught material which exceed that provided by law. That, coupled with the arrival of poisons from Italy half, meant that the landfill has lasted five years instead of ten. The reasoning seems to receive support even in the technical comments submitted after publication the request by the Integrated Environmental SisR Incineration stopped for some time. The author is a geologist Brindisi, Francesco Magno, who writes on page 3: "... from reading the report cards Hague and it is not clear analytical references to show that the slag and ashes from the furnace the carbon content of not exceed the level of 3%. " The geologist recalls the characteristics of the plant, on the production of material to landfills, "the production of slag and bottom ash: 6931 tons per year, production of fly ash: 945.14 tons per year, total waste production, bottom ash and read: 7876.14 t / a ". If the latter figure to draw near to 16,600 tonnes / year of waste brought to combustion in 2006 (year taken into account by the author of the observations) then the conclusion is the following: the waste produced and disposed of in 2006 is equal to about 47% of what led to the burning ... the current legislative decree No 133/2005 shows that the production of slag and ash must be minimized to the maximum and the order of 30% of waste brought in combustion. If the reading of the data contained in the report has been raised, it is evident that a total of about 16,600 t / a production ... slag and ash, which by law must not exceed 30% but are more than 47% in the landfill run by the same company. " Our source that agrees with the content of this document submitted to the Regional Environment and that of the province of Brindisi, commented: "Why all this? I do not know, what is certain is that the Thermomechanical to keep the active system has to spend quite a lot 'of money in energy production, while the abbancamento landfill is free of charge, being the managers on behalf of SisR. It is obvious that waste less remain in the oven, the system works less and less energy to produce. " A upstream, on the contrary, there is a big income (for Tmt as with any company owner or operator of a landfill or incinerators) means the allocation of waste is paid by external customers per ton, and when it comes to waste The sums that industrial touch € 300. If it is true that the platform has taken material from Brindisi many areas of Italy, it is well understood as a source of income was up to his block. "I think we can say that in five years of operation of the landfill - read the source - TMT has appropriated about 20 billion lire." A gain which has also contributed significant savings in disposal waste, carried out by Thermomechanical with reclamation works such as those made through its hypothermic Manfredonia srl. In this case, save for disposal must be added the generous compensation given for work done by Eni. It is therefore necessary at this point to jump from the middle Siponto Brindisi. Hypothermic with Syndial Ltd (Eni group) had a contract for: the recovery of waste, loading trucks, transporting and disposing of waste on the island 16. Normally we tend to avoid this concentration of offices tend to distinguish between reclamation and disposer, also to make more transparent the process of reclamation of industrial sites. In addition, to hypothermic Ltd was a contract "specific" that included the whole island reclamation 16. Work was never completed. It is unclear when, but at some point - presumably when the funding for the contract ended - the hypothermic demanded an increase in the price per quintal of the drainage. A price that was already very high, according to the allegations by former employees (executives and non) Syndial to Manfredonia. Until then Eni would pay for the reclamation of the island 16, 320 euro per ton of waste disposed of, whereas the market cost is half. At the time of the conclusion of the contract between the hypothermic and Syndial director of the industrial activities of the latter was the Antonio Raimondi Foggia, Brindisi which has always been home. The termination of the contract would take place only after the passing of the baton from Angelo Raimondi Taraborrelli (former director of Agip, the new CEO of Syndial since 2006) who did not renew the contract on the recommendation also the director of environmental activities Paparoni, thus starting litigation is still ongoing with the hypo. The contract went to Eni Group companies (born because of the management of contracts for remediation of several contaminated sites left by the giant around Italy), which today is called the Snam Progetti SpA. The work would be finished today's 16 island and they would be brought to conclusion especially La Fenice, owner of an industrial waste incinerator in San Nicola di Melfi. The source of funding for the "cleansing" of the island 16 is not certain, but it is true that the company started in 2003, then the reclamation, the start of its construction coincides with the last three years during which financed the Italian Eni for its reclamation work in Manfredonia. Official figures show that Berlusconi's government passed the European Court of Justice in 2004, reached 37.8 billion francs as a "public competition".
2 SURVEYS OF ATTORNEY FOR A LOOK AT BRINDISI MANFREDONIA under the magnifying glass, the work of hypothermic site Siponto
is extreme attention to the track Manfredonia-Brindisi proposed by the attack by the public prosecutor of Brindisi assisted by the captain of Le Nozze di Lecce Noe, Nicholas Candido. Their investigations are currently most focused on the identification of the 1000 drums stored apparently without special protection. Sources close to the public prosecutor of Brindisi damage for certain searches in various places of Veolia and its Termomeccanica, the acquired company a year ago and the builder / operator of the consortium on behalf of local Asi. Would likely also hearing as a person informed of the facts of an employee of Thermomechanical, which could lend a hand to define the origin of these bins. Which presumably come from many parts of the Peninsula, because of landfills and incinerators capable of disposing of such waste, there are few. Until 2003, that was the only one in Brindisi in southern Italy. In this regard, we must report what he writes in a local newspaper, the newspaper of Brindisi, who said that Veolia, once came to the site and noticing of these drums would have reported its presence. This would counter a first draft that he wanted the discovery of them by Noe almost by accident, during a search that was for only the installation of monitoring of air emissions of incinerators. Trusted damage for the degree of conviction by courts and police on arrival in Brindisi waste directly from Manfredonia. The hypothermic Ltd, a subsidiary of Thermomechanical would work in Manfredonia in the period of time that should be 2003 to 2007, the year of the seizure of the island 16 for alleged irregularities in the classification of waste recovered (in the view of the then foreman al'Attacco Rocky, now retired: "We worked during the seizure of the judiciary"). This is one of the points still unclear on which the prosecutor is still working: there is not clear if the investigation initiated on August 8, 2007, are still in progress or if the prosecution file has closed. The doubt is given to the prosecution that the seals are still fixed at Foggia island 16. Also in relation to the seizure of the site Siponto the attention of the prosecutor poterebbe also be the role played Laricchia Onofrio. Chemical Conversano (Bari), professor of Chemistry at the University of the regional capital and appointed by the prosecutor Foggia CTU. He would still have the computer for the certification of the waste site Enichem, who ran in the supervision of drainage works. Moreover, during his work as adviser to the judiciary (who often plays the role throughout Italy), with its laboratory, which runs along his partner Fragassi Chimie srl, would be conducting its own analysis for Syndial, finding it to play the dual role of controller and controlled. Noe's attorney and I also see clearly the period during which Termomeccanica through its hypothermic Eni has been working at the site of Manfredonia. Particular attention would also be there on the statements of a former leader of the Colossus released on these columns. Probably to see if the dates of its activity it fits with the age of drums and other material stored in Brindisi. In this sense, could be heard in the short few former employee of hypothermic in Manfredonia. One thing is for sure, the road to Manfredonia is a very interesting idea investigating, that the investigators are developing attention, "says a source inside the Palace of Justice Brindisi.
the story of the reclamation of Eni of Manfredonia and Monte Sant'Angelo with the platform for the disposal of industrial waste in Brindisi, now at the center of a 'investigation of the judiciary. Yet it is not. Among the hazardous waste stored near the incinerators Brindisi there could be or could have been even ones from the site Siponto, as the company that managed the plant in Brindisi, Thermomechanical spa, has also worked to clean up the island 16. The focus of the attack for the never-ending story of the reclamation Siponto began in March, starting from the personal life of an employee Eni Francesco Prencipe, now before the Judge in question work with Syndial SpA (a company founded by Eni to manage reclamation in Italy), to oppose his transfer to the site of Brindisi, where his role was not present in the organization. Well before the letter of transfer, the employee would have been the subject of several attempts at bullying, all would be attributed to its role in the company: Syndial controller of companies to which contracts out the work of reclamation. The problems he would start his delivery from the aftermath of a report which showed some irregularities in the licenses contractors. The fact is that the owner of a company (Zenith Industries), historian contractor Eni in Manfredonia, last year took control of the internal organ to be heard because the victim of an alleged attempt at extortion perpetrated by the site manager Gianluca D ' Aquila, who threatened to commit suicide under the contract would Prencipe asked to meet with a recorder hidden in his jacket pocket, in order to extract incriminating statements. The draft was not adopted, the farmer lost his twenty-year contract and he denounced the whole body of internal control Eni. The only effect seems to have been the transfer of D'Aquila in Sardinia, but the contractor has never been heard. From here, the attack tried to understand and describe the procurement system that Eni adopted the official start of reclamation in 2001 (late sensational than the 1976 explosion of the tank where the effects of arsenic on environment, health - and political - have not yet been exhausted). The story of Prince, after the articles of the attack was the subject of a question in the regional council by the director Roberto Ruocco alderman in the Senate Environment and then by Mr Michael Saccomanno Minister Prestigiacomo. Today we return to talk about contracts, or rather, a contract in particular: that of hypothermic (read Termomeccanica) for the reclamation of the island and its 16 Brindisi site where for a certain period of time has resulted in waste. Veolia, the workers are linked in a protest in front of the Province: "Now a solution," October 7, 2010 (brindisireport.it)
RINDISI - The protest took place this morning. Tired of the usual promises never kept, and the expiration of layoffs around the corner, four Veolia workers chained themselves in front of the back entrance of the Palace of the Province, to protest against the blockade of the incinerator, still in custody after 18 months.
were chained and in front of reporters, politicians and bystanders have illustrated their arguments with civility. "We are here because the layoff expires Oct. 16, and nothing has changed." The plant is still standing, was on the drums take a medical exam to determine if the incinerator plant control everything according to rule, but the workers do not receive allowances from the month of June.
"We were told that everything would be restored as soon as possible," protested this morning outside the four workers, representing all 26. In the late morning, were received by the Provincial President Massimo Ferrarese reassured them that the commitment of the institution on the basis of an imminent resolution of the problem. A new update will be next week.
"The company has asked for a little 'time - has said in recent days, the secretary of the UIL Licchello Antonio - because they insist on a portion of the area where the plants still maintain a seizure of the judiciary." At the moment employees remain in proportion to Veolia. "This is so true - added Licchello - that at the end of the layoff was necessary to request an extension to their region by Veolia." The workers' protest
The multipurpose platform Consortium Asi, industrial waste facility that disposes of toxic and dangerous, since last March has an individual manager, CISA, who has won the tender launched by the Consortium, although not without some difficulties. Opening the envelopes, the package was just one, though the companies to have shown interest in previous months were more or less seven. The only offer came, one of the CISA. That is precisely Massafra firm that had set the stakes on the ground shortly before the tender of the same: a list of exceptions then accepted from Asia, among them the possibility of Offers found in the fee downward. On this last point, the Cisa scored his coup: the offer for the fee to € 25 thousand, compared to 300 thousand hypothesized. The company Massafra would then sign the contract itself to the end of that month and used up by April 27 workers at high altitude to Veolia, the company that in 2008, after the legal successor to Thermomechanical, had decided to push the field.
Ex Veolia, CISA takes if the prosecutor clears
Saturday, November 20 (senzacolonne.it)
BRINDISI - The conditions for workers ex Veolia is avoided the drama of the dismissal are all there. All except
one.
The incinerator site on the way to Pandi has not yet been freed from the seals and, consequently, materially company past winner of the tender notice for the award.
The dialogue between the old and the new operator of the incinerator has experienced yesterday a decisive moment. The Veolia
Cisa and returned to meet with the Labor Market Policies Work with the presence of Vincent Ecclesie and trade unions.
The two companies took stock of the situation on the delicate situation of employment for a year and a half takes on tenterhooks twenty-six workers forced to remain with our hands from the moment (March 2009) the plant was "closed" Dalal judiciary (through the police of Noe Lecce) to test a range of issues related to an alleged illegalre disposal of hazardous waste.
Today, November 20, expires layoffs notwithstanding which they are confined to the workers.