Pfas process, those who have seriously damaged the environment will pay, even with prison up to 17 years imprisonment. Compensation millionaireswith the maximum figure of 58 million euros granted to ministry of the environmentwho now will have to proceed with the reclamation.
It is the outcome of the historic sentence on the edge of one of the greatest environmental pollution processes in the history of Italy: after four years e 130 hearingsafter the interrogation of a few hundred witnesses and the change of about 300 civil partiesfinally the leaders of the companies that took turns in the management of the Miteni were sentenced for contaminating the water from Pfas, including drinking water, of the second aquifer of Europe at the service of more than 300 thousand people in the Veneto.
In fact, Miteni has produced Pfas in Trissino, in the province of Vicenza over the years, and has released its waste without control, polluting surface and underground waters and the food chain, hitting areas of Verona, Vicenza and Padua.
A great work, starting from the first complaint in 2014 made by the “Perla Blu” circle of Cologna Veneta and by the lawyer Enrico Varali regional coordinator of the Legambiente legal action center, who in recent years have fought, inside and outside the classrooms of the court, to obtain ecogiustizia, tell from the environmental association.
Now we proceed as soon as possible to the reclamation of the polluted Sedime, which has caused and continues to cause one of the largest aquifers with which Venetian citizens have been forced to deal with decades.
By the waters, in fact, which have been made dangerous and no longer pruning and irrigated in an area of more than 180 square km, to the surface water courses that cross those territories (Fratta Gorzone, Bacchiglione, retrone, Adige) exposed to a persistent presence of these Forever Chemicals“With negative consequences for the ecosystem, health and for the production economy“, As Stefano Ciafani, national president of Legambiente, comments, who with Legambiente Veneto and the local club were established in the process and present today in the classroom to the reading of the sentence.
Meanwhile, as for the reclamation The approval of the services of the Municipality of Trissino of the “risk analysis document” has been approval of the production site in these days, which will have to lead to the elaboration, within six months, of a Reclamation Plan of the Miteni site by all the companies in various capacities involved. Compared to the waters of polluted aquifers, no path has yet been activated.
