oil exploration in abruzzo

[adriatica]

no not olive oil... that's obvious because its there for all to see on the trees....

have posted things in the past about the new proposed oil holding and distribution area in Ortona...but in a way it made little sense... however they have been handing out licences for exploration in certain areas...and i guess the more you see and hear the more it makes economical sense for Italy... now with oil costing so much...

what brought it back to mind this time was again a programme that i seem to watch a lot on RAI 3... this was about oil fields in basilicata and the disaster in an ambient sense of that and the total dis regard of some of the exploration drilling licenses for private property....
anyway especially for those that are in or around Ortona... or want to check out where licences have been applied for and given here's a useful abruzzo site...

also could be that you might like to help them out or take part in the fight....

www.comitatonaturaverde.it

am sure i know of at least one member that will be taking up the fight here...

[myabruzzohome]

http://www.comitatonaturaverde.it/fi...I%20311207.pdf

This map shows area where permission for searches has been given and more! I suggest anyone in Abruzzo might want to take a look.Its not easy to relate it exactly to the os type map but as Adriatica points out its the ortona area most 'at risk'.

I'd certainly heard all about this from il centro which is why I urge any one even remotely interested in Abruzzo to buy a copy whenever they are there.

I'm not sure if non-residents can sigb the petition?

[AllanMason]

Originally Posted by myabruzzohome

I'd certainly heard all about this from il centro which is why I urge any one even remotely interested in Abruzzo to buy a copy whenever they are there.

And then there's the Il Centro website for when they aren't there.

Al

[Nielo]

I wish I'd known this last week when the digger was here digging a hole for my new bombola, I might have persuaded him to keep on digging!!!lol

[anxanum]

Yes we need lots of support The Verde party have been excellent and have really tried in every way to help out over this issue and also the illegal setting up of "antenna per telefonnini" which are springing up like mushrooms with local comune's totally disregarding " piani regolatore"

[myabruzzohome]

Perhaps those of us with web sites can copy and paste the logo onto their homepage?that way we can help to raise awareness of these issues although I do think theres a lot of people here who'd rather just forget about these issues.

Its a matter of out of sight out of mind and sometimes its the pollution you can't see that causes the most damage ; whilst you may not have an oil well dug at the end of your garden you could still suffer from the effects of the pollution from one nearby.

I've done this link on mine ( you'll need to create a link to 'naturaverde' website )

[Kerry & Susan]

Great I hope they find oil and develop the areas. Will bring jobs and wealth to the region. With the world demand for oil increasing and the supplies struggling to keep up we've all seen the price of a barrel of oil increase dramatically. More reserves are required and if found would boost the economy of Abruzzo.

[anxanum]

I dont think you quite know what your saying ! We need alternatives to overpriced oil that only causes damage to our enviroment that WE all have to live in . The area around Ortona is beautiful and grows some of the regions finer wines, all of this and much more would be lost, there are about 600 hundred families that live on the production of wine , so just in that sector there would be losers . And we would all lose healthwise . Put it in your backyard if your so keen and not ours.

[Kerry & Susan]

Yes I do know what I'm saying thank you very much! There is NO alternative at present to overpriced oil. The area will only be developed if it's economically viable to do so. Exploration costs are expensive, once the test wells are drilled costs spiral. Abruzzo isn't going to turn into the new Dubai, if there were large amounts of oil it would be being pumped out by now. It'll be small pockets (if any) that are now viable due to the price of oil.

Oil production brings jobs and wealth to an area. Just look at the standard of living of the people in Aberdeen compared to most of the rest of the UK. Some wine production may be affected, it all depends on what oil there is, but the young people of Abruzzo need jobs and security.

The UK on the whole has a good standard of living, a lot of that wealth is on the back of North Sea oil and gas. Why try and deny the young of Abruzzo their slice of monetary improvements?

[myabruzzohome]

First of all i thought your post was a wind up so I thought it best to ignore it but I can see now that you are totally serious.

Why don't you spend a little time reading up about other areas in Italy where such 'explorations' have taken place?

Unfortunately for many complex and puzzling reasons Italian bureaucrats and politans both local and national seem to see such schemes as simply a good way to line their own pockets. Any regard for the safety of the local environment features very low on their list of priorities.

Look at the Naples rubbish fiasco or in our area the Bussi time bomb if you want proof of the total environmental disaster that would follow widespread oil drilling in Abruzzo.