Carry an article about asbestos in Ferrandina Espresso.
Happy reading .... and many reflections.
Andrea Milluzzo.
A Ferrandina, Basilicata, a landfill Eternit is making a killing. Anybody want to intervene?
"But what is happening in Ferrandina?" This is the question we usually hear Nunzia Hospital of Matera, where they just diagnosed with cancer. A ruling last too applicant among the inhabitants of this village about thirty kilometers from the city of stones. But the answer ferrandinesi if the date is: going to the dustbin of Italy had begun to generate its dead.
entering the town, a funeral procession is greeting a woman of 57 years taken away in a month from cancer. Below lies the valley with its ravines, that once was the intent of becoming a national park. But now houses five landfills and the Environment Ministry also plans to build an incinerator and yet another mega landfill of toxic and dangerous.
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Ferrandina nearly ten thousand inhabitants and a great history: it was founded in the times of Magna Graecia and was also a cultural center in Byzantine times. In the nineteenth century its inhabitants rebelled several times and even during the Second World War there was a rebellion against the leaders and landlords fascists. The country is on top of a hill and in 1978 was used as a location for the film 'Christ Stopped at Eboli ', by Francesco Rosi.
But much time has passed since then. Domenico The carp is a local businessman in charge of drilling, waste disposal and land reclamation. The name of his company is one of many that stand out on signs prohibiting access to dangerous substances. He's putting in the safety of municipal landfill Casalena, a landfill of asbestos and is in charge of the reclamation of the former Materit, a company of the old and infamous Eternit that between 1973 and 1989 did all he could do damage to the country and the villagers. "These works have begun but to put the area are completely safe, I would say, 2 million euro and the City no longer has any money," explains the carp. Meanwhile 10 of the 86 workers who were working there were killed, 16 were sick and all the others live a life suspended between medical and suspicion of be convicted.
entering the town, a funeral procession is greeting a woman of 57 years taken away in a month from cancer. Below lies the valley with its ravines, that once was the intent of becoming a national park. But now houses five landfills and the Environment Ministry also plans to build an incinerator and yet another mega landfill of toxic and dangerous.
Watch The videoinchiesta
Ferrandina nearly ten thousand inhabitants and a great history: it was founded in the times of Magna Graecia and was also a cultural center in Byzantine times. In the nineteenth century its inhabitants rebelled several times and even during the Second World War there was a rebellion against the leaders and landlords fascists. The country is on top of a hill and in 1978 was used as a location for the film 'Christ Stopped at Eboli ', by Francesco Rosi.
But much time has passed since then. Domenico The carp is a local businessman in charge of drilling, waste disposal and land reclamation. The name of his company is one of many that stand out on signs prohibiting access to dangerous substances. He's putting in the safety of municipal landfill Casalena, a landfill of asbestos and is in charge of the reclamation of the former Materit, a company of the old and infamous Eternit that between 1973 and 1989 did all he could do damage to the country and the villagers. "These works have begun but to put the area are completely safe, I would say, 2 million euro and the City no longer has any money," explains the carp. Meanwhile 10 of the 86 workers who were working there were killed, 16 were sick and all the others live a life suspended between medical and suspicion of be convicted.
Yet that asbestos was carcinogenic known for some time. It's not like 30 years ago while working the ferrandinesi agreed to handle the strange unknown powder. A technical report of 2005 found asbestos and manganese in amounts higher than normal in soils and waters near the former Materit. Five years after the building is sealed to the least worse, with broken windows, a door opened and dust on the ground that rises to a minimum seasonal wind. Inside there are still 500-600 bags a thousand pounds of asbestos each waiting to be finally buried and forgotten. But they are still there. And in a country has a sick family.
A few meters from the highway passes Basentana that connects the entire valley. Another hundred bags of asbestos and another sheet - broken - welcome. No fence, only a sign but goats and cows can not read quietly and then swarm the grass next to the bloody substance. From producer to consumer is a short step and sometimes fatal.
"My husband always said that eating local products we knew what we ate. No, we know now. "Nunzia has 53 years, one was widowed after her husband was killed by a tumor. Now she is fighting the same evil:" I felt tired, I thought about what I had move in recent times. Instead, I've done tests and it turned out I had breast cancer. But I was not worried, I know you can heal and I have faith in science. Then instead of the Tac metastases found everywhere and they told me it was pointless to even the operation. "
There is a documentary Ola (Luke environmental organization), Environment and legality by the association and active thinking, an association Youth in Ferrandina in the films Spartacus freelance Andrea bags of asbestos and leachate flowing from the landfill Casalena. "Not to see the video in the square was used to stir the conscience. The most devastating consequence of becoming the dustbin of Italy is that everyone feels entitled to do what they want," says Spartacus.
If you say asbestos and asbestos cement, the first similarity that comes to mind is Casale Monferrato, Italy in rubbish bins but there are more, and among them Ferrandina. The effects are the same, awareness, very often, no.
"My husband always said that eating local products we knew what we ate. No, we know now. "Nunzia has 53 years, one was widowed after her husband was killed by a tumor. Now she is fighting the same evil:" I felt tired, I thought about what I had move in recent times. Instead, I've done tests and it turned out I had breast cancer. But I was not worried, I know you can heal and I have faith in science. Then instead of the Tac metastases found everywhere and they told me it was pointless to even the operation. "
There is a documentary Ola (Luke environmental organization), Environment and legality by the association and active thinking, an association Youth in Ferrandina in the films Spartacus freelance Andrea bags of asbestos and leachate flowing from the landfill Casalena. "Not to see the video in the square was used to stir the conscience. The most devastating consequence of becoming the dustbin of Italy is that everyone feels entitled to do what they want," says Spartacus.
If you say asbestos and asbestos cement, the first similarity that comes to mind is Casale Monferrato, Italy in rubbish bins but there are more, and among them Ferrandina. The effects are the same, awareness, very often, no.
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