Drillers, battle of the amendments on the release of permits: what can happen – Corriere.it

The case of the drills reopens, but the Meloni government has no intention of taking steps backwards on the contents of the decree: the country’s energy capacity needs to be increased, stop buffer measures. Three of the four opposition forces, Pd, 5 Stars and Greens-Left (the Third Pole marches off) have united to present the amendments to the Budget Committee to suppress the provision of the Aiuti quater decree which unlocks drilling permits: Bring Italy back, he claims Marco Grimaldi, leader of the Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra in the House Budget Committee.

The principle in favor of stopping the drilling shared by the oppositions which present different answers. While the Dems essentially oppose the new extractions between 9 and 12 miles from the Italian coast, taking into consideration the hypothesis of making suspended or unproductive gas cultivation concessions more efficient, the Pentastellati are totally against the provision which restart the extractions that open up to the exploitation of deposits in the Upper Adriatic, with the exclusion of the Venice area.
Anomalous heat on New Year’s Eve throughout Italy, peaks of 20 degrees in the South and on the Islands, the mimosas bloom three months earlier and the freezing point today is over 3,000 metres: in this picture What is the Meloni government doing? It chains us to the fossil age – Grimaldi underlined in the Budget Committee at Montecitorio -. Indelible are the crimes against the environment and “clima-care” and, citing yet another provocative act by the latest generation of environmentalists who smeared the facade of Palazzo Madama, the seat of the Senate, with washable paint, he adds: Before expressing solidarity with a door already cleaned, I feel close to all those boys and girls in the world who are fighting for the only Earth we have.

Also there Cinquestelle vice president of the Senate, Mariolina Castellone he showed concern for the latest government provisions in favor of drilling and incinerators and for the increasingly marginal role of the ecological transition, underlining that the importance of the issue was also demonstrated by the fact that President Mattarella, in his address to the nation on 31 December, declared that “the challenge, rather, is to plan tomorrow with courage. Securing the planet, and therefore our future. As an alternative to the use of drills, what the oppositions are proposing is to unlock and increase the production of energy from renewable sources. Can a deregulation of drilling and the objective of reducing climate-changing emissions be included in the same paragraph?, added Grimaldi. The Aid quater decree, which allocates 9.1 billion against the energy emergency, expires on 17 January. Times are therefore tight and the executive does not seem willing to back down. After approval by the Senate, the text will arrive in the House on January 9, when the examination of the amendments will also end, which can be presented by the political forces by this afternoon.