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The sustaibable future of Taranto

in a city where, now, we talk almost exclusively of Ilva, judges and politicians, Puntarella Red met with members of "The Sciaje", who see the return to the origin (the fishing, but not limited to) a way to build alternative development.

A Taranto is half a century that can not be ignored by Ilva (before Italsider). But they are about three thousand yearsthat those who inhabit the city of the two seas not live without consuming their mussels. Yet in the last twenty four months went like this: the finest mussels Tarantino have become too poisonous to be eaten. And there are proposals to significantly reverse the route. "The citizens have turned their backs to the sea for their economic decisions, but may reappearance its coast and discover therichness of its identity: it is our contribution to resolve a dilemma anthropological." Taranto, described the news these days because of the story-Ilva, chilling in the conflict that tears apart: to keep your job, you can give up the health of workers and of their fellow citizens? A diabolical choice for the present and the future, in which Angelo Cannata, one of the promoters of the "The Sciaje"opposes a solution that starts from the past: "Taranto is a city of sea and fishermen, who in 150 years he sacrificed his natural vocation to build the Arsenal and the iron center of Europe's largest. These days, because of the emergence of the issue of Ilva, he thinks only of rapid correction. But at stake is the fate of a city. What might find it in its roots. "

the last month have been burnedthree more tons of mussels that came from the first breast of the Mar Piccolo: why is the ban on the cultivation of molluscs which exists for two years for mussels from the area of ​​the sea. Why? The mussels there are traces of dioxin, polychlorinated biphenyls and heavy metals. Where it comes from contamination? "There are several reasons," says Cannata "there un'idrovora that draws water fromthe Mar Piccolo for the cooling of industrial Ilva, which alters the temperature of the sea. Then there are the works of the Arsenale shipyard, where transformers produce electricity ship pcb. And then the so-called "pit of shame", the Arsenale, which is said to have been covered with toxic waste. " Suffice it to say that in one of the latest reports, the Ispra (Institute for Protection andEnvironmental Research) even recommends the relocation of mussel from the Mar Piccolo the Great Sea, because the situation has become unmanageable.

ozze love, mussels poisonous. Yet these are mussels with the dolphins (symbol of the city of Puglia) identitariamente characterize the history and traditional heritage of Taranto. "For generations in our city has been handed down the art of the sea at thetime of industrialization this exchange has been lost. Today, the same fisherman prefers that his son works for Ilva have a certain income. Yet they are the elders to give us courage to continue. " Cannata describes the design of which was made bearer along with ten other young citizens: The Sciaje. "We chose this name because it recalls the tradition tarantina the garden of the sea, where theyspent the molliscoltura. The Sciaje but is also the name of a place in the Mar Piccolo that existed where today the Arsenal: the area was banked to make room for the basins of the Royal military arsenal. And it was also an interesting area from the archaeological point of view, sacrificed for strategic and military needs. " The goal of the association, financed with funds of the Puglia region foryoung people, is to promote social but "rather than take refuge in the environmental protest made of slogans, we propose to take care of the land," explains Cannata. In what way? Through concrete projects, says the young Tarantino. "We have set up a permanent exhibition of the mussel in the Clock Tower of the Old Town. We are dealing with the care of the green area near the Ilva, to revitalize the...