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According to Councilman Henry Melasecche “from 2000 to the present diffused into 250 million pounds of steel dust.” The M5S: “Environmental data is not credible,”

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While everyone is waiting for the decisions of the Board of Directors of Outokumpu, which must indicate whether it intends to accept the ultimate proposal of ArcelorMittal, there are those, like Councilman Henry Melasecche says that “the issue of the protection of health is inserted between the costs of the budget that Luxembourg will have to put a load of Finns. “

The impiant According to Melasecche “yet another revelation, so far unknown, is related to the amount of steel dust spread in the air for decades, given that family ARPA, organ-sponsored regional what is, refrained from communicating with due care. ” Ast, recalls, “has created a system to capture and furnace 5 is finally concluding the evidence in the oven 4. From calculations of-thumb, it seems undervalued by Professor Briziarelli, luminary place from left to protection of scientific of what was said, the data are chilling: compared to 170 tons of molten steel for each casting, with a frequency of about 10/12 castings per day as an annual average, the first plant today would collect about 35 tons per day of dust and many will begin to pick up the second. “

Data According to the leader of the UDC, in short, would be “about 70 thousand pounds of powder, carcinogenic, daily spread in the air for decades. Since 2000, they would be released into the air about 250 million pounds of steel dust, not to mention how much emitted by incinerators ASM Terni Ena / ACEA and Printer, the first closed by the judiciary. ” A “mountain of dust that is an integral part of agricultural land, not only in Prisciano, filed anywhere, rooftop, raised by the traffic of the streets, breathed and ingested with food.”

Health Melasecche, announces that question to the mayor, he concludes: “Beyond our health, even thousands of children live in Terni and our moral responsibility requires them to live in a protected environment. Why be silent? Why not combine immediately, since yesterday, development, labor and health of all? The debate should be opened immediately and the issue addressed in the light of the sun with ArcelorMittal, Ast inviting a direct comparison between the municipal committee delegated to the theme. “

M5S On environmental issues also involved the 5 Star Movement, about the Legambiente report: “The report, as explained by Mirko Laurenti project manager, has been developed around three types of cities small, medium and large, comparing the provincial capitals through 26 thematic indicators of urban areas. A good way to analyze the quality of life in cities such as Perugia but inadequate in a particular situation like the Terni area in which urban and industrial area interpenetrate forming a single body for about a century and a half. “

The controversy According to the Mayor and Professor Briziarelli, say ‘grillini’, ‘you just have to stay calm, no alarm and no environmental health emergency. In summary, the blame is always the citizens who are determined not to be virtuous without which no one has ever explained how and without putting them in a position to do that, “