ILVA Toxins Make Life in Taranto Unliveable

[Agnosticsherbet]

ILVA Toxins Make Life in Taranto Unliveable
At least one cancer victim in every family in the Tamburi district. “We have twice the incidence of acute infant leukaemia in comparison with the rest of Italy”
TARANTO – In the Tamburi district, people prefer not to know. They’re afraid of going to the doctor. Every other medical check-up reveals a tumour, a leukaemia or perhaps a malignant stomach polyp. Every family has at least one cancer victim. In some cases, cancer has virtually wiped the family out. Francesco Fanelli has lost his father, his mother, his grandparents, two siblings, his first wife, an uncle and an aunt. When myeloid leukaemia struck his eldest daughter, barely eleven years old, Francesco broke down and wept. From one day to the next, he made up his mind it was time to get out of Tamburi. “I took on a €100,000 mortgage – at my age – rather than watch helplessly as everyone died”, he says. Francesco set up an association. It’s called “9 luglio 1960”, the day they started building the ILVA complex at Tamburi. We call it Year Zero, “when gardens, orchards, streams and the healthful breezes were replaced by this huge industrial complex”. Taranto-born actor and poet Ettore Toscano well remembers the wounds the territory suffered when Tamburi was transformed. Before, kids with asthma or minor respiratory problems were sent to Tamburi to get some fresh air. Now residents are fleeing.

This is what have a giant steel mill with a free ticket to polute does to the people around it.

[bongbong]

1. The Bain model

Flip-Flopper smiles and laughs in his insane fashion everytime another human dies that he profits from.

[LiberalEsto]

2. The company executives should be forced to move there with their families

This appears to be a Love Canal-type disaster.