Mareamico: “Finally clarity on the Porto Empedocle regasification terminal”

“In a note sent to Unesco, the Superintendency of Agrigento finally sheds light on the unfortunate hypothesis of building a regasification plant in Porto Empedocle”. This is what the Mareamico association of Agrigento says. “First of all he declares that the previous authorization of 2006 has expired and that there is no new request for opinions in stock – he writes in a note – The office, in detail, then underlines how:” it is not possible to grant any landscape authorization “. This is because: in the vicinity of the area identified for the construction of the regasification plant there are landscape and cultural assets of high importance; another deterrent concerns the choices already started in the wake of the tourist enhancement of the area which, certainly, do not marry well with the regasifier. The area would also be subject to Seveso regulations, and this would have an inevitable negative impact on the tourist vocation of Porto Empedocle and Agrigento. In fact, the stretch of water would be banned from navigation to allow gas tankers to supply the regasification plant “. “A lot of fake news has arisen around this story: one concerns” phantom jobs “, the other boasts:” anachronistic industrial prospects “- says Mareamico – We need to clarify starting from the fixed points. The only certainties are represented by the fact that the This project envisages an open-circuit regasification plant to be built onshore. This means that the plant would return large quantities of colder and more chlorinated water to the sea. To translate the words into numbers: 600,000 cubic meters per day of water treated with chlorine that would release toxic and mutagenic substances into the sea. All this would have inevitable consequences: the impoverishment of the sea and also the formation of annoying foams that would discourage bathing “.