Ilva, D'Amato (M5S) Scrive a Commissione UE: “Ilva impianto insostenibile”

Un dossier con foto e dati per mostrare lo stato in cui versa lo stabilimento dell'Ilva di Taranto e denunciare come, nonostante i numerosi salvataggi pubblici, l'impianto continui a essere insostenibile sia da un punto di vista produttivo, sia soprattutto da quello ambientale. E' il dossier che l'eurodeputata del Movimento 5 Stelle, Rosa D'Amato, ha inviato ai commissari Ue all'Ambiente e alla Concorrenza, rispettivamente Karmenu Vella e MargretheVestager. “L'Ilva è rimasta in piedi in tutti questi anni grazie agli interventi del governo italiano – si legge nella lettera spedita ai due commissari Ue – Senza questi interventi, sarebbe già stato chiuso”.

 D’Amato punta il dito contro i dieci interventi effettuati per salvare l'impianto di Taranto, in barba alle direttive Ue, e in particolare l'immunità civile e penale data dal governo Renzi al commissario straordinario. L'eurodeputata segnala anche come, nonostante tutti questi aiuti che hanno garantito inevitabili vantaggi competitivi all'Ilva rispetto ad altre acciaierie d'Europa, lo stabilimento presenti macchinari vecchi, i segni di una manutenzione limitata e superficiale e compartimenti completamente contaminati da sostanze nocive. 

“Una riduzione o una riconversione della produzione – scrive D'Amato ai commissari Ue – non sarebbero plausibili”. Ogni ulteriore investimento sull'Ilva, dice ancora l'eurodeputata, “sarebbe solo una perdita di tempo e denaro”.

La lettera di D'Amato si conclude con un invito a “una visita congiunta” dello stabilimento di Taranto, soprattutto a quei settori che non sono “ben conosciuti dalle istituzioni europee, a causa delle restrizioni imposte dalla stessa Ilva”.  

Dear Commissioner Vestager, dear Commissioner Velia,

As member of European Parliament and Citizen of Taranto, 1 am writing to you in order to explain my concerns andgiveyou some suggestions about thè thorny issue linkedto thè ILVA Steelplant.

First of all, it is necessary to mention that, during thè last years, thè IL VA Steel plant has been producing only thanks to thè intervention of thè Italian government, without which it would already be closed. Secondly thè state of repair and thè obsolescence of thè plant likely make any form of investment vain.

Indeed, thè Italian government intervened ten times (violating European directives and changing legislation ad hoc, even against thè judiciary. Please find enclosed a list of thè Legislative Decrees issued by thè Italian Government) to ensure thè functioning of thè plant, ignoring thè environment, health, and safety legislation . Added to this is a paradoxical situation of civil and criminal immunity for ILVA special commissioner. The combination of these circumstances lead to a condition of absolute lawlessness of ILVA Steel plant as well as unfair competition with respect to thè European market, since it operates in a privileged position compared to other steel plants.

The machinery is old and thè only works of maintenance that have been done during thè last years were limited and shallow: any investment on thè plant, for those who know thè specific production reality, would result in a waste of time and money.

A reduction or conversion of thè productive mode is not even plausible since thè compartments are completely contaminated by noxious substances emitted from thè full cycle and they cannot withstand any further pollution; and, in addition, now thè production of steel, if it is to be truly competitive, strategically can only be placed in sites provided with thè necessary raw materials.

Taken into account all thè above mentioned reasons, please find enclosed a map of thè IL VA steel plant with some notes regarding thè investments carried out by thè Italian Government and thè most dangerous points that deserve to be visited.

In order to better understand thè current situation of thè ILVA steel plant, thè severity of thè environmental situation as well as thè unlikely benefit from further investments, I would like to invite you to a joint visit of thè plant, in particular of those sectors that are not so well known by European institutions, due to some limitations imposed by ILVA itself.

I hope this could helpyou in becoming more and more aware of thè urgency with which this matter needs to be dealt.

lremain atyour disposai for any additional information.

rosa.damato@,europarl.euroDa.eu - www.europarl.europa.eu B-1047 Brussels- Tel. +32 2 28-45593- Fax. +32 2 28-49593 F-67070 Strasbourg - Tel. +33 3 881-75593 - Fax. +33 3 881-79593

I look forward to your reply Yours faithfully,

How Italian government saved ILVA

There were many interventions of the Italian government to prevent the closure of the ILVA steel plant in Taranto, heedless of violations of national and European regulations on environment protection, safety and

state aid: without these interventions the steel plant would already be closed.

The AIA-2011, and its review of 2012, do not contain provisions on waste, landfills, storm water management.

This is a clear violation of the article 14 of the Directive 2010/75 / EU.

The provision of a financial security or equivalent, laid down by art.8 of Directive 1999/31/EC, is a

prerequisite for granting the AIA. This violates the art.14 of the Directive 2004/35/CE.

Following the seizure of the plants by the judiciary, with the Legislative Decree 207 of 03.12.2012 the

government frustrates the decisions of the judges by releasing the area by law. Further sanctions were inserted

in case of non-compliance with the AIA requirements, in addition to those provided for by Legislative Decree

152/06: but to date, despite the pressure made on responsible bodies, no penalties have yet been imposed. This

violates the art.79 of Directive 2010/75 / EU.

By the legislative decree 101 of the 08/31/2013 ILVA is granted to use two internal landfills, without having

carried out a technical examination for the verification of the requirements: there are areas used as landfill who

do not have all the required permissions, and some of them also under judicial investigation (e.g. Mater

Gratiae).

It represents a huge economic advantage (in addition to being a violation of environmental protection) because

it allows to dispose of their own waste that would otherwise have been allocated to external landfills (at higher

cost). This violates article 8 of Directive 1999/31 / EC.

By the Legislative Decree 136 of 12/10/2013 ILVA is granted to comply with the Integrated Environmental

Authorisation by realizing only 80% of the planned actions, without specifying either such exactly and thus

not providing an adaptation priorities. This violates article 8 of Directive 2010/75 / EU.

By Legislative Decree 100 of 16.07.2014 ILVA is allowed to implement only 80% of prescriptions which

expired by 31 July 2015, instead of complying with all the requirements due. This violates article 8 of

Directive 2010/75 / EU.

Legislative Decree 1 of 05.01.2015 gives civil and criminal immunity for ILVA Commissioners and allows

ILVA to use modalities for abnormal recovery for certain wastes, such as steelworks slag, to retrieve them in

road construction, in fills for reclamation and in environmental recoveries throughout Italy.

To check the properties of waste is allowed to use the REACH (Regulation no. 1907/2006), that could not

classify a waste as hazardous, contrary to the provisions of article 7 and Annex III of the Directive 2008/98 /

EC.

In addition, contamination of soils and groundwater resulting from the use of waste will eventually be

ascertained even 12 months after the completed recovery. In violation of the precautionary principle.This

violates article 6 of the Directive 2008/98 / EC.

By the Decree 1 of 01.05.2015 Italy paid off, through Fintecna, an amount of 156 million euro for the

environmental damage that has been generated, about factories sold by IRI in the privatization of ILVA and It

makes this sum available to the ILVA Commissioner.

Therefore, the amount allocated to repair the environmental damage caused by the management before 1995

is destined not to this purpose, but to cover the holes in the budget of the current management. This violates

article 6 of the Directive 2004/35 / EC.

The decree 92 of 07/04/2015 provides that the ILVA activities are not prevented from sequestration when it

refers to offenses related to the safety of workers. This followed the death of a worker who forced the judiciary

to the seizure of the blast furnace 2, which stop would have led the shutdown of all plant.

This violates the framework directive 89/391 / EEC on safety and health of workers and Directive 89/654 /

EEC on the minimum safety and health requirements in the workplace.

We consider it is essential to visit:

- The port area and protruding parts

- Mineral parks

- Batteries 7-8-9-10

- By-products department and desulfurization zone

- Blast furnaces 2-4-5

- Steel mill 1 and 2

- GRF department

- Landfill Mater Gratiae

- Agglomeration Department

Detail 1

Below are listed some of the serious shortcomings within ILVA

steel plant in Taranto, which show that the state of repair and the

obsolescence of the plant make all attempts to economic investment

on them useless.

The coverage of mining parks, which startup works were supposed

to start on 20.03.2014, is still blocked in the design phase and

characterization.

The park area is completely devoid of any waterproofing and then,

at every meteor event or wetting of stockpiles, the substances leach

into the ground and contaminate freshwater.

In the minutes of the conference held on 19 October 2006 ILVA

was required "to activate immediate interventions for emergency

safety of contaminated groundwater", imposing "to activate within

110 days of receipt of this report suitable interventions to

implement emergency safety of contaminated groundwater also

through physical confinement, given the excesses in surface water

or groundwater and deep ". At this stage, it is still going litigation

on this topic.

Inside the park there is an unauthorized refuse containing waste

material production and dust from the process filters.

The charge level and battery reversal zone (especially 7-8-9-10)

show a state of repair that exposes workers to toxic emissions

produced by the plant, as well as forcing them to perform

dangerous manual operations (such as the sealing of holes on the

charging plan) and to operate with caution as the reporting of

dangerous areas is deficient.

It would be possible to get a reduction of atmospheric emissions of

carcinogenic substances (such as benzoapirene) by lengthening the

coal distillation time: this would result in a loss of production, so

ILVA has no interest in applying it.

The proof of this is that a procedure to ensure compliance of the

distillation time does not exist (nor has been imposed by AIA)

Of crucial importance is attending a "charge", to observe the poor

state of the facilities, although the likely response of denial will be

motivated by reasons dictated by security.

Within the AFO there are areas that expose workers to falls within a

high temperature material, due to the lack of protection

systems.The state of repair of all the blast furnaces obliges

employees to very dangerous manual operations. In fact the report

of the judicial and ARPA commissioners and NGOs denounced

overpressure accidents already in 2014 within AFO2: all this has

resulted in an accident happened on 06/08/2015 when a worker

was run over by a red-hot iron-casting and died four days later.

Similar dangers, and others, are present in AFO4

Within the AIA emission limits for the start-up and shutdown of the

plant are not expected, that is a regulatory requirement in presence

of carcinogenic substances. In fact, the AFO1 system reboot has

been challenged in its operating mode: the absence of regulatory

limits and monitoring coarsely performed with not calibrated

instruments or a lack of data. This was confirmed by ARPA Puglia.

Still, it is not known whether the issues were resolved and a lack of

regulations on emission limits in the transitional arrangements

remains.

The bio-monitoring network within the specific areas /

neighborhoods, a prescription from AIA, is not yet active.

Unhautorized refuse

Detail 2

Below are listed some of the serious shortcomings within ILVA

steel plant in Taranto, which show that the state of repair and the

obsolescence of the plant make all attempts to economic

investment on them useless.

In the areas of management of the scrap metal collection system

and treatment of steelworks slag are not installed, there are no

pavements and the works of 'waterproofing of the surfaces and

the collection of rainwater and wetting-cooling have not been

completed.

The casting operations take place while producing emissions

that spread at the workplace, without any machinery or

equipment for diminishing the effect.

ILVA states that the data are available in real time to ARPA and

that emission values are published online on the company

website: in reality the most dangerous pollutants such as

dioxins and benzo (a) pyrene are not published, but only the

oxides of sulfur, nitrogen and dust.

It seems to be not yet complied the requirement to allow

installation of aspirations for the reduction of fugitive

emissions.

Detail 3

Below are listed some of the serious shortcomings

within the ILVA plant in Taranto, which show that the

state of repair and the obsolescence of the plant make

all attempts to economic investment on them useless.

Port area and protruding parts.

There is no treatment plant and collection system of

meteoric waters, indeed currently ILVA has not the

possibility of having a facility for the same treatment.

This implies that substances, even dangerous, within

the materials from protruding, may end up directly

into the sea after being deposited on the docks.

The state of repair of the cranes represents a danger to

operators.

The only guarantee for the use of ecological buckets is

linked to the respect of internal procedures of

establishment, since some traditional buckets are still

present on site.

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