Definitive archiving on the Tap pipeline, despite Emiliano

“We will ask Tap for a billionaire compensation for image damage. If they were to be convicted, they will compensate us billions of euros because the damage is enormous and the advantage is zero for Puglia”, said Michele Emiliano the day after the notification of the summons for the heads of the Tap company accused of not having applied the directive Seveso. They have all been archived. And the Puglia region will not take the compensation or the environmental compensation it has always refused. The investigation had already been closed, but Emiliano had filed an appeal together with eight other mayors. Three ministries, the EU Commission and in 2015 the Renzi government established the exclusion of Seveso. Emiliano challenged the decree, losing in the Tar and in the Council of State. Until the prosecutor intervened. The prosecutor-governor celebrated the guarantee notice as a victory: “On Tap we were right, Renzi and Calenda were wrong. The concerns of the Puglia region have found a clear foundation: there will be a process for the construction of the Tap gas pipeline and we will appear as a civil party”.