The steel disease infects Terni

Made in Italy minister Adolfo Urso said it was wrong “to sell Ilva to ArcelorMittal, a multinational already present in Europe, when there was also an Italian competitor in the tender”. The Italian was actually Indian, Jindal, and today he manages the Piombino steelworks, where for three years he has failed to make the promised electric furnace while he is asking the government for funds to get the plants back on track and get the workers back to cash integration. Today Urso, it’s no mystery, wants to give Ilva to Arvedi, which last year acquired Acciai Speciali Terni, promising a (half public) investment of 1.7 billion. Never arrived. The mayor of Terni Stefano Bandecchi, patron of Ternana and Unicusano, in a cult video asked Cavalier Arvedi to return to Cremona: “Arvedi has closed the doors to companies in Terni to bring work to Cremona. He sends hundreds of people to checkout for weeks. He asks to pay less for electricity. If he doesn’t like Terni he can leave ”. Obviously, before the show, Bandecchi pulled out data on nickel, chromium, and the “paths” study on diseases: “Today the city’s pollution is more disgusting than yesterday and the air is unhealthy. We have twice as many cancers in adults and three times as many in childhood. We are working to promote tourism but we cannot ignore the fact that Terni today is the worst Italian city for pollution”. The same things that the mayor of Taranto has been repeating for years, but also those of Cremona, Turin and Piombino. So what is the most polluted city in Italy? Meanwhile, the mayor of Taranto with those data has once again appealed to the Tar against Ilva, asking for the plants to be shut down. Perhaps politics, instead of promising industrial plans by choosing the owners of the companies, would do well to clarify the data on pollution and epidemiology. You cannot put children and diseases without a causal link every time, just to raise the tone of the negotiations. Also because in addition to the citizens, there are always some public prosecutors who believe in it.