There is a point of no return. And we are getting closer "With great care we looked at environmental issues. We are entrepreneurs often second or third generation and, therefore, firmly bound to the harmonious development of the territory in which we live, work, invest ... "So begins the document accompanying the feasibility study the motorway VA-CO-LC today unveiled a bust Arsizio Malpensa Trade Center, which follows the substance of the previous draft presented at Como last year. But the entrepreneurs of
PromoVareseComoLecco joke or we really believe? They that both have at heart the road, look around when driving along our roads? Where is the "harmonious development of the territory"? Only roads and warehouses, this is the legacy we leave to future generations. We live in the more densely settled cementified and most of Europe, one of the most polluted to breathe carbon monoxide instead of oxygen.
Apart from the above statement, which has remained on paper, not a word has been spent by Regional Councillors and Presidents of Chambers of Commerce to talk about the environment, air quality, soil erosion, protection of green areas (and our !). They claim to represent Lombardy that works, too bad that agriculture, what is still called the primary sector and that claims to defend the Region of Lombardy, has not been the slightest consideration.
Only a flood of these figures stun. Obsessively repeated words such as concessions, subsidies, debt, prices, operating costs, increase, reduction of the auction, investment, income, taxes, financial requirements, interim interest, performance in terms of costs and revenues, tolls ... But nobody has talked about environmental costs, that the little land we have left is the most valuable because more and more rare. No one has talked about possible alternatives, at kilometer zero goods, short chain, teleworking, rail transport, upgrading of existing roads, vertical links with the horizontal axis in the foothills of which were recently inaugurated the yards and fields and forests already pouring millions of cubic meters of concrete. Removed from the project's bypass Como because it is too expensive? No problem, we design a highway contractors paid from Varese to Como in!
Today only 2400 cars ranging from Varese and Lecco, but the construction of multiply these numbers! Listening to them it seems that the objective is to attract car (they were not tourists!) And massively increase the volume of traffic so as to justify one hand and pay tolls with other spending on highway is around a half billion euro. Pollution soaring, but so is even the score! Truly a fine example of our "healthy" business Lombard. The sites create jobs, they say, but at what price? In our free Lombardia soil is scarce and precious, and especially non-renewable and should be protected, not consumed. Perhaps for our children is more important to race on a highway that walking in a forest ...
Once the list of figures, the session was closed. No room for discussion and debate, a statement reinforced one-way to tell and tell that they are interpreting our needs. I have serious doubts, but I'm sure that instead of interpreting the economic interests of those who have these "great works" draws huge profits. We are approaching a point of no return. Entrepreneurs of PromoVareseComoLecco along with some of the politicians who sit in the region seem determined to do and quickly. And if they do leave, there will not be able to go back. The cement is forever.
Anna Maspero, group Salvabrughiera, www.salvabrughiera.com - November 15, 2010 salvabrughiera@gmail.com
To view the feasibility study http://www.varesenews.tv/VA-CO-LC.pdf
In January, we have the results of collecting signatures "Places of the Heart" FAI
http://www.acraccademia.it/
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