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Unsuccessful the hearing on 16 June: The Council of State will review the case of nuclear power to Alexandria until 30 June, after having viewed the documents provided at the last minute. New twist, then, in the complex legal and political battle that environmentalists opposed Alessandrini, supported by Beppe Grillo, the Sogin of Bosco Marengo, a public company (formerly Nuclear Manufacture, Aeneas) through which the government Berlusconi, with the consent of the Region Piedmont, will proceed to the disposal plant, turning it in fact the first authorized storage of radioactive materials in Italy, albeit "temporary".

"It's a gimmick - says Lino Balza of" Democratic Medicine "- to open the way for the return of nuclear power in Italy, even without the special website slag, provided by an Act of 2003 and not yet identified. If the government coming out ahead on Bosco Marengo - adds Balza - is also possible that a cascade, are transformed into landfills authorized "temporary" the other Italian nuclear installations. "

For this reason, environmentalists Alessandrini (including "Democratic Medicine, Legambiente, Pro Natura, the Movement for Decrescita Felice) through a subscription to People were able to collect the $ 4,000 necessary to resort to the TAR of Piedmont, who had given them reason: divestiture "illegitimate" because in contrast to the 2003 law on the storage of nuclear materials (at Bosco Marengo are kept 550 barrels of uranium oxide).

Local authorities from the region to the province, have not shared the alarm given that in 2020 Italy will have to take back nuclear waste parked in France at the time that the Italian nuclear power stations were in operation, it is assumed that by then, be found on the national site in which to secure the radioactive material. "In Alexandria, the material is now already there: buried in cement involves no additional risk." According to environmentalists, however, storing a "provisional" in Bosco Marengo could become permanent in a site that, according to law, it is not right to keep "safe" of radioactive material.

Hence, the use of Tar. Against whom opposed the Sogin, who appealed directly to the Council of State, upsetting environmentalists, who are forced to scrape together a few days the 20,000 euros needed to attend to the administrative court in Rome. Then the decisive intervention of Beppe Grillo, who last week announced his personal commitment. Represented Advocate Mattia Crucioli, environmentalists, therefore, could present in court June 16. Pity though that the hearing has been updated.

"It was the umpteenth, Sogin of serious foul play - says Balza - who has presented papers at the last minute, causing the protests of our Advocate and irritation of the same advisers, prevented the examination of new acts." Therefore calls on the court, set for June 30. According to the notice of ecologists, the documentation could be produced even a boomerang for Sogin, "without the authorizations required for dismantling," already initiated the installation of Bosco Marengo.

The substance, however, is that the company takes time and forces environmentalists and their supporters a new fundraising to meet the costs of yet another hearing. "With this renewed tactical court - said Balza - the Sogin has prevented the Council of State to confirm or revoke the previous order, and we at this point go into serious difficulties: not on the level of merit, which we are sure and convinced but the fact of having to incur additional costs.

Hoping that Beppe Grillo maintain its (outstanding) effort, which allowed the environmentalists to appear June 16 in Rome, ecologists relaunched in any event, the popular subscription: "First we must redouble our efforts, and groped to raise the money necessary to continue the legal battle. "

Specifying the reason "nuclear Alexandria", you can make deposits into the bank account 10039th of "Democratic Medicine Scrl (ABI 05584, Cab 01708th, Cin W, IBAN IT50W0558401708000000010039) or bank account check made payable to Pro Natura 22,362,107 Torino, via Pastrengo 13, 10128 Torino (info: www.medicinademocratica.org).

NUCLEAR STRUGGLE - Ecological groups against the creation of a temporary nuclear storage at Bosco Marengo, near Alexandria: The State Council of Rome will decide to confirm or stop this project next June, 30 (info: www.medicinademocratica.org).