Who has the press releases in the last few days carefully followed, could only shake of the head note, what a terrible environmental disaster occurred in Italy now. Apparently, sabotage, or so the reports were ready to leave between 10 and 15 million liters of used oil from the tanks of an abandoned refinery. Deliberately insane offenders have opened the drains and made an environmental disaster in the purchase, their ecological consequences are still difficult to estimate!
The oil spilled into the River Lambro and from there into the Po, the largest river in northern Italy and is now threatening over the weekend to the contamination of beaches, and the flora and fauna on and in the Adriatic! The consequences for agriculture and groundwater, and the long-term impact on food production, are also hardly conceivable. While the environmentally-conscious Europeans north of the Alps blankly shake their heads, whether the extent of contamination, we see that in Italy itself not as tight. Where the disaster takes little interest in the media!
sees While in northern Italy with fear in the future are also voices that make the Italian State the wrong approach to the allegation. Previously it was thought not even bother to declare a state of emergency for Lombardy. Furthermore, it is too late and even then some have responded incorrectly. The surprise in the not far, when Berlusconi, for example at the moment probably prefer rants about anti-corruption judge, which he described as Taliban ( Italy: Berlusconi described as a Taliban judge ; article Focus.Online from 02/26/2010). Under such circumstances, one naturally has no time to take care of so unimportant things like the environment!
In general, the Italian reaction to the disaster leaves a rather mixed impression. While giving all the aid workers and partly to exhaustion fight against pollution. This is surprising, because the Italian Civil protection is one of the best equipped and most modern in the world. But if the competent authorities or not react too late, is good for getting the best material will not!
links:
- environmental catastrophe in Italy: Rescuers fight desperately against oil spills (article FAZ.net of 28/02/2010)
- oil spill in Italy: an excruciatingly slow response of the Po (article on the tagesschau.de 02/26/2010)
- Italy: An environmental disaster with intent (article tagesschau.de of 02/24/2010)
- oil spill (article on Wikipedia)
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