Marcegaglia: prevail on NIMBY

For Confindustria's new president we have to override the vetoes on infrastructures

Fotogallery Energy safety, new investments, getting over the Nimby syndrome, sustainable mobility and advanced technologies for the environment.

These are some of the items in the inaugural speech of Emma Marcegaglia to the industrialists' annual assembly on Thursday. On outlining the worldwide economic difficulties, she mentioned the ongoing rise in the prices of oil and raw materials, “which greatly checks the worldwide economic growth.”

“The EU has to adopt reliable and efficient policies for energy safety, for the diversification of the sources, for the cross-border distribution structures, that is, for a real electricity and gas single market – said Marcegaglia – The EU has to speak one single language when dealing with energy producers since energy might become a source of contrasts among some of the areas in the world.”

After that, the president of Confindustria pointed her finger at ‘red tape’ as well as at the vetoes which contribute to the rise of energy prices: “The garbage management systems are about to collapse in many areas of our country also because of the refusal to build incinerators, which, instead, are working everywhere in other countries. Our cost for energy is the highest in Europe. We lack a strategy on investments for safety and energy diversification as we give up before the vetoes from minority groups.”
“We have to look ahead, at the things to do – she went on – The first is to unfreeze the investments which are checked by non-existent environmental problems. Energy plants, regassifiers and modern incinerators, hardware and software networks, production facilities: there are hundreds of works and plants looking forward to being licenced.

Finally, the crux of the matter, that is, nuclear power on which Marcegaglia said: “The investment in technologies must strictly concern new generation nuclear power plants, mobility, energy savings and environmental technologies. These are the big issues at the centre of industrial policies.”