Brugnaro: “Venice, the world capital of sustainability, we focus on hydrogen”

“The idea of ​​sustainability is now concrete and no longer just philosophical”. With these words, the mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugaro, baptized the newborn Foundation “Venice, the world capital of sustainability” in the setting of the Council Room, in the Palazzo della Prefettura in Ca ‘Corner. “Nobody wants to pollute and whoever does it, it is right that he should be punished. Now there is a general project of the city and it is coming out, many are things we have already done ”. He then recalled the commitment for the conversion of Enel’s coal-fired power station, switching to gas. The mayor remarked on his requests, also to Eni, to bet on hydrogen: “In some way, I feel I have participated in these very complicated business decisions. Eni has recently announced its intention to build a hydrogen production plant in Italy. A very important thing, I imagine inside the Refinery but then we will all discuss the areas together ”. Precisely on this front, he announced the imminent end of work on the first fixed hydrogen distributor in Italy, which aims to encourage tourism from Northern Europe. “This will allow our German friends with hydrogen cars to come to Italy, with a range of 600 kilometers “. There is also a collaboration with Toyota on the subject. He then recalled ** the investment for the purchase of electric buses at the Lido and Pellestrina **, “once again fighting against committees and fears. But the electric doesn’t go to pedals ”. On the waste front, he then put forward the idea of ​​a waste-to-energy plant to dispose of the non-differentiable part of waste, instead of being sent to landfill: “Sustainability must be economically functional”.