FROM DUST AND FUMES ILVA OF TARANTO DAMAGE TO HEALTH
Ilva emissions are dangerous to the health of workers and the population of Taranto and surrounding municipalities.
To support it, with conclusions that will have significant legal consequences, are the four experts (the industrial chemical Mauro Sanna, the official ARPA Lazio Happy Rino, the chemist and chemical engineer Robert Monguzzi Nazzareno Santilli) appointed by the investigative judge Patrizia Todisco to perform preliminary report of the incident in evidence asked the chief prosecutor Franco Sebastio, the prosecutor and the deputy Peter Argentine Mariano Buccoliero.
As announced yesterday by the Journal, the four experts last Wednesday lodged at the Magistrate Todisco the report, 554 pages long, which will be the focus of the hearing scheduled on February 17.
Disaster negligent and willful poisoning of foodstuffs, willful omission of precautions against accidents at work, aggravated damage to public goods, jet and spills of hazardous substances, air pollution are crimes for which defendants Emilio Riva, 84, president Ilva SpA until last May 19, Nicola Riva, 52, president of Ilva from May 20, Louis Grosso 55 years, Ilva plant manager, Ivan Di Maggio, 41, chief executive area of the coke ovens department, Angel Cavallo, 42, area manager of the department Conglomerate, the five suspects who have participated through their expert advisers began on 8 November 2010 and only partially completed because the next day the deposit is expected to report further entrusted to three experts who have worked on aspects of medical and epidemiological investigation.
Net the conclusions arrived at by the 4 experts, according to at least read the answers to these 6 places by the investigating magistrate. According to experts, in fact, by Ilva plant spread by gases, vapors, gaseous and solid substances (powders, etc..) Containing dangerous substances to the health of workers working inside the plants and the population of the nearby town of Taranto and nearby communities; Ilva are attributable to the same levels of dioxins and PCBs found in animals slaughtered, farmers belonging to the 8 plaintiffs in the proceedings, so as always chargeable Ilva are the levels of dioxins and PCBs found in soil surrounding the industrial area of Taranto Ilva inside the plant does not comply with all appropriate measures to prevent the uncontrolled spread of smoke and dust hazardous to health workers and third parties.
With regard, however, the present values of emission of dioxins, benzo (a) pyrene and IPA of different nature and composition, PCBs, mineral dust and other substances deemed harmful to the health of people and animals and damaging to property and land surveyors write these values, measured with the self control in 2010, is inconsistent with those established by previous permissions to those provided in the help of August 5, 2011. But these same emissions are not measured by an automatic control system continuously, although this is provided by an Act of 1998; so that emissions are not otherwise conform with the provisions of national legislation in the field of thermal waste treatment. Are not also follow the operating procedures to avoid the phenomenon of slopping (the red clouds that regularly seen sull'Ilva)
The experts refer to other experts appointed by magistrate Todisco the answer to the fifth question (if the hazard of each substance, considering these as a whole and in their interagibilit , determine situations of danger of damage or unacceptable (domino effect) while the sixth (in If so, what are the technical measures required to eliminate the dangerous situation, even on the time schedule for their implementation and their possible drastic), the experts point out that "the condition which is more significant, even the very presence in them high concentrations of pollutant compounds, and unique to the context in which it is found, is the difference of the concentrations measured in them, not only among those belonging to different systems but also those arising from similar processing plants. "
To support it, with conclusions that will have significant legal consequences, are the four experts (the industrial chemical Mauro Sanna, the official ARPA Lazio Happy Rino, the chemist and chemical engineer Robert Monguzzi Nazzareno Santilli) appointed by the investigative judge Patrizia Todisco to perform preliminary report of the incident in evidence asked the chief prosecutor Franco Sebastio, the prosecutor and the deputy Peter Argentine Mariano Buccoliero.
As announced yesterday by the Journal, the four experts last Wednesday lodged at the Magistrate Todisco the report, 554 pages long, which will be the focus of the hearing scheduled on February 17.
Disaster negligent and willful poisoning of foodstuffs, willful omission of precautions against accidents at work, aggravated damage to public goods, jet and spills of hazardous substances, air pollution are crimes for which defendants Emilio Riva, 84, president Ilva SpA until last May 19, Nicola Riva, 52, president of Ilva from May 20, Louis Grosso 55 years, Ilva plant manager, Ivan Di Maggio, 41, chief executive area of the coke ovens department, Angel Cavallo, 42, area manager of the department Conglomerate, the five suspects who have participated through their expert advisers began on 8 November 2010 and only partially completed because the next day the deposit is expected to report further entrusted to three experts who have worked on aspects of medical and epidemiological investigation.
Net the conclusions arrived at by the 4 experts, according to at least read the answers to these 6 places by the investigating magistrate. According to experts, in fact, by Ilva plant spread by gases, vapors, gaseous and solid substances (powders, etc..) Containing dangerous substances to the health of workers working inside the plants and the population of the nearby town of Taranto and nearby communities; Ilva are attributable to the same levels of dioxins and PCBs found in animals slaughtered, farmers belonging to the 8 plaintiffs in the proceedings, so as always chargeable Ilva are the levels of dioxins and PCBs found in soil surrounding the industrial area of Taranto Ilva inside the plant does not comply with all appropriate measures to prevent the uncontrolled spread of smoke and dust hazardous to health workers and third parties.
With regard, however, the present values of emission of dioxins, benzo (a) pyrene and IPA of different nature and composition, PCBs, mineral dust and other substances deemed harmful to the health of people and animals and damaging to property and land surveyors write these values, measured with the self control in 2010, is inconsistent with those established by previous permissions to those provided in the help of August 5, 2011. But these same emissions are not measured by an automatic control system continuously, although this is provided by an Act of 1998; so that emissions are not otherwise conform with the provisions of national legislation in the field of thermal waste treatment. Are not also follow the operating procedures to avoid the phenomenon of slopping (the red clouds that regularly seen sull'Ilva)
The experts refer to other experts appointed by magistrate Todisco the answer to the fifth question (if the hazard of each substance, considering these as a whole and in their interagibilit , determine situations of danger of damage or unacceptable (domino effect) while the sixth (in If so, what are the technical measures required to eliminate the dangerous situation, even on the time schedule for their implementation and their possible drastic), the experts point out that "the condition which is more significant, even the very presence in them high concentrations of pollutant compounds, and unique to the context in which it is found, is the difference of the concentrations measured in them, not only among those belonging to different systems but also those arising from similar processing plants. "
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