It’s time to debunk the Nimby (also) rhetoric on biogas

While Giorgia Meloni is committed to strengthening the Italian strategy of diversification of sources, a plant fed with olive waste is still blocked in Terlizzi. “Agricultural production can contribute to energy independence”, Scordamaglia tells us (Filiera Italia)

On energy, national leaders promise, at the local level their men deny them. And so while Giorgia Meloni undertakes to strengthen the Italian strategy of geographical and material diversification of energy sources, in Piombino (mayor of Fratelli d’Italia) the regasification terminal is still prey to uncertainties and appeals. And while Enrico Letta, outgoing secretary of the Democratic Party, during the electoral campaign announced a major national energy saving plan, encouraging investment by companies in renewable energy, in Terlizzi (Bari, mayor of the Democratic Party) a biogas plant fueled with precisely of olives, capable of producing about 3,000 tons of LNG, the same family as that which arrives on the net from the United States and Qatar by ship. Reason? The plant designed by Sorgenia “is too close to the old Via Appia Traiana, not sized for a short supply chain and for local needs, conceived in an unsuitable area”. Well, it’s the same old story: let the biogas plant be done, but not in our house. And never mind if the olive residues cannot be transformed, as farmers ask, and if the findings are defined as unjustified by Sorgenia. The remains of the olives will be poured directly onto the land, the Nimby party, which had the Piombino regasification ship repainted, also wins in Puglia.