Peace, safety and environmental
From the city of silence to the town's participation
Some policy proposals for the city that we
Taranto is home to one of the most important military bases in the Mediterranean. Since 2002 it has become NATO base without which neither the Parliament nor the city have been informed. While the eyes of all the construction of new naval base in the Great Sea, but were given assurances about the status of the base as a national basis.
Instead it passed a decision on the head of the population that may involve the use of the sea to NATO naval units, unlike those of the Navy, are equipped with nuclear propulsion and nuclear weapons.
It thus becomes a priority to implementing Article 1 of the Municipal Statute which states: "Taranto is a city worker for peace, free from chemical, nuclear, biological."
In particular, it should execute the decision in which the City Council in 2000 ruled to start a negotiating table with the government after the discovery that Taranto was on the official list of ports at nuclear risk. This table, which included the participation of the associations involved tarantine against nuclear risk and environmental protection, has never been established.
the objective should be pursued, as was done for the base of La Maddalena in Sardinia, a away as much as possible from nuclear submarines and other weapons that could pose a risk to the marine environment and the safety of the population.
should be pursued in order to be fully informed of the Mayor, as the law requires, on the possible transit of naval nuclear propulsion, giving full effect to the legislative decree 230/95, which provides for the publication of nuclear plans.
In these circumstances and in presence of floors absolutely inadequate to protect the position, our position is - in collaboration with the Region of Puglia - request a moratorium on all transit dangerous.
The absence of information on military matters has been replicated in Taranto in the environment, so that our city has become the "city of silence" .
For example, the procedure for the LNG terminal has been started without any information of citizenship in violation of the Aarhus Convention (enforced by law 108/2001) and the Seveso 2 Law, standards which provides not only the dissemination of environmental information but the involvement of the public where there are public interests at stake for everyone: the environment and safety.
Therefore, the entire environmental impact assessment of the LNG terminal to be cleared and restarted on the right bases.
Our position on the LNG terminal from the fact that Taranto is legally defined as "the city at high risk of environmental crisis" and therefore it is impossible any further aggravation of the city with plants going in the direction that opposed the recommendations of ARPA expect an easing of the major industrial from nine industrial plants at risk of undergoing a major accident at Seveso law.
Taranto therefore not an appropriate site to host an LNG terminal , especially if placed near Ilva and Agip, as well as the draft of Gas Natural.
Our program provides for the application of the Aarhus Convention and the establishment of a ' Agenda 21 for the maximum involvement of civil society in environmental protection during the transition towards a safer city and encouraging a culture of environmental information.
From the city of silence the city of environmental information and sharing choices: this is the strategic direction towards which Taranto has to go.
currently in Taranto - from European estimates - there is 30% of all dioxin Italian and 9% of European dioxin. However, no monitoring program was initiated for this highly carcinogenic substance.
therefore aim will be to promote a dioxin monitoring in collaboration with other local authorities and research institutes in the area.
Currently the city has a network of detection of pollution from traffic is unable to capture adequately the ' industrial pollution and therefore should be a recognition of the pollutants in the vicinity of the industrial area with a mobile unit. A match between the detection GPS (Global Position System) unit via a mobile and monitored data can lead to more precise mapping of air pollution and homogeneous. To this end, it is important to detect an interaction between the City and environmental responsibilities of the province, bringing in Computerized Information System of the Province of pollution data and reaching environmental thematic maps and a database that contains the set of all historical data.
It 's very important to know the environmental data of the past for comparison and to this end the Act of agreement with Ilva be verified because there is no certificate of improving air quality and' environment after the agreements.
will be our commitment to find all the environmental data ARPA and to what was detected by the Presidium of Prevention Multi-zone and make them public, also using the Internet, as well as provides for the Aarhus Convention, working in an integrated manner with other local authorities.
will our duty to report responsibility of those who have or have not controlled pollutants or were complicit in environmental disasters perpetrated in the city. L ' increase of 100% of cancers in the last 30 years constitutes a real moral issue because without complicity and failure to control industrial pollution would not come to that.
The health emergency will require the ' application of all the powers of the mayor so that the whole industrial area returns to normal . In particular, action will be initiated to monitor the district Drums come to define with scientific rigor the extent and the source of environmental damage.
will also be provided to the population - as is required by law - information on security plans and emergency high-risk industries, launching a serious policy of disaster prevention and civil protection.
Even with regard to electromagnetic fields will be given to a wider population information about the electro, initiating audits in areas at risk, involving schools wishing to initiate projects for the measurement of electromagnetic waves near the antennas of mobile phone companies. The antennas map should not be kept in the drawers but will be made public by entering the data in the Computerized Information System of the Province, notice published in advance citizens of the requests to install new antennas. The City must set up an allocation plan antenna installations in regulating and limiting the most densely populated regions.
with the research institutions will be studied a special information system that sends real-time mobile data citizen detectable pollution and transferable by SMS. The principle of full sharing environmental information will be the basis of a new relationship between citizens and institutions, exploiting the full potential of wireless technology .
The "city of silence" will become the city information and participation, by empowering employees with a strict application of the law 626 security that provides a strict duty to provide information to workers on pollutants emitted , in particular those carcinogens.
The schools and universities should play a role in this framework, training of nationals and skills on which to create a healthier city, more controlled and more aware of their rights. A policy of supporting the active citizenship will conduct constituting forms of listening and constant consultation of civil society, the movement from informal groups, voluntary associations and training institutions to search, organizations of workers in unions.
A new social participation - based on right to information, control and motion - may be increased making full use of Internet and new technologies, especially wireless.
We believe that a new culture of participation can be an engine for development - including economic - increasing the skills and technological information that characterize the basic training of all citizens in so-called "information society" , in which citizens can participate with computer technology and public forum when compared to the choices of the city integrating delegated democracy and direct democracy. Today's technologies can play a role in a democratic and participatory strategy for e-democracy.
This "piece of program is thus closely related to our proposal of a 'new economy , based on the tertiary advanced the full use of all the skills of young Tarantino today via telematics, advanced could participate in projects without having to migrate away from their city .
The promotion of free software and free network sharing information, creating a wireless community town (via wi-fi hotspots as in other cities like Rome or Bologna) are key for gather intelligence in a city form of collective intelligence mail service to the city .
should be re-discovered their desire for participation and democracy in which political parties must be the virtue of modesty, of listening and passing the proxy blank.
The current dispersion of collective intelligence is one of the causes of the lack of identity and aggregation. Much of the city does not feel heard and valued. The dishonesty of certain policy has transformed the culture into a commodity to be exchanged under the table. skills were denigrated and marginalized by a certain policy that has created distrust and degradation, favoring "friends" and leaving the people and good projects out the door.
A new training, which starts from the habit to 'exercise of their rights - first the right of access to information - and to promote the full development of skills, is surely a factor in promoting economic well as aging civil town for the whole community.
A town passive, unmotivated and without enthusiasm, participation and even a city that has no confidence in his development project and could not commit to overcome the enormous difficulties of the present.
Alessandro Marescotti
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