Icelandic glacier Vatnajökull, we are on the slopes. The plateau of the Karahnjukar, almost unexplored until 2000, has a canyon that could be called the eighth wonder of the world. If the most famous Grand Canyon of America owes its majesty in the red dress uniform, which gives the rock desert of Arizona, the Karahnjukar leaves you breathless with its amazing variety of shapes and colors. Imagine slopes of lava rock that varies from bright red to dark gray basalt, try to imagine the side of the gorge now vertical cliff, now step, now the pillar, the rock formation now continues, now broken, and the course of placid river that now appears, now offers a sequence of waterfalls in the background of clear skies and sullen of Iceland, the canyon cuts through the plateau is covered with a leafy northern prairie and a carpet of spring flowers.
To complete the picture, think of this place inhabited by pink-footed geese, reindeer, arctic foxes, trumpeters swans, owls nevi. Finally, enjoy the view of the place from the real site www.inca.is / show.
Enjoy the show while you are on time, because it is disappearing under charges of dynamite and a gradual flooding. He's taking his place the reservoir of a hydroelectric plant that will alter the ecosystem of an area of \u200b\u200b3000 square kilometers (as an average Italian province) to power the largest aluminum production plant in Europe, owned by the multinational Alcoa.
course, have so far served to stop the project of the government or the strong resistance of Icelandic citizens who do not receive return of jobs and development (the cheap labor and foreign), or the rejection National Agency for Urban and Regional Planning. Technical barriers are presented instead in 2007, when the National Energy Company has begun filling the reservoir and tests have been active at the same time seismic and volcanic events, so the lake level in October does not even touch the penstocks, making it unusable system, while in December a symposium of geologists heralded an intensive volcanic activity.
If you want on the site mentioned earlier, you can express your disagreement in this project, which is expected to follow similar barriers to the main rivers in Iceland. Make the work of the multinational
Impregilo, the leading Italian engineering and general contracting, active on all continents in the fields of construction, facilities and concessions (dams, highways, airports, railways, subways, hospitals, water treatment and waste). Another
work accomplished in recent years by Impregilo is 5 km tunnel dug under the Alto de Boqueron in Colombia, intended to reduce the distance of only 22 km from the capital of Medellin and Santa Fe. The work has led to a strong external debt of public authorities and the closure of innovative programs to assist the most disadvantaged categories of citizens (the poor, street children, etc..) Which also has no jobs. Indeed, the rural population adjacent to the infrastructure, as alleged beneficiaries, first underwent an additional tax, then the evacuation. In fact, the activity of digging and excavation of hills have produced landslides, collapse of housing, deforestation and changing the water system. The Technical University of Medellin will assign the cases to the working methods adopted. The project does not seem to be accompanied by adequate geological studies, impact assessments and cost estimates correct. The quarries of inert materials and the landfills are located, taking account of the convenience and comfort of the subcontracting companies, not the criteria for slope stability and land use planning.
Read on reconstruction of the story (36 pages made by Antonio Mazzeo, Italian engaged in international cooperation), there emerges a picture so detailed and documented and disturbing because we understand how the implementation of the food tunnel the voracity of the bourgeoisie and local politicians , foreign interests and poverty on which crime thrives Colombian author of massacres and disappearances.
With scripts like, poor social and environmental responsibility, Impregilo figure in the construction of large projects, often oversized, supported by the World Bank and international finance that debt in the developing world and condemned to underdevelopment. The dams built in Guatemala, Nigeria, Turkey, Nepal, Lesotho, Argentina have caused scandal to the poor design or for the intensive exploitation of labor, lack of security conditions, the environmental devastation, the phenomena of international corruption. In particular, the Chixoy dam in Guatemala, defined by the "Campaign to Reform the World Bank" an ecological debt of Italy against the Central American country, was used to ensure economic benefits to the U.S. and to strengthen the Guatemalan military government that hesitated to suppress the protests of indigenous people with the blood of 400 people. Even in Italy the
Impregilo has specialized awarding pharaonic works by fallout from the controversial property on economic, environmental and cultural rights, such as the 'Moses' of Venice, the Bridge over the Straits, the underground parking of the Gianicolo, the project of urban transformation of the port and the historical center of Sorrento, the treatment plants waste in Campania.
In this region, the Government allowed the Commissioner FIBE-Impregilo the choice of plant Acerra incinerator, on the basis of their convenience, and allowed the adoption of obsolete technology for the same, notwithstanding skills of planning and environmental assessment specific to the public. In addition, plants CDR, in violation of contractual requirements, are confined to separate waste into two streams and at the same pack. For this reason there is a hunger for permanent storage sites for ecoballe unfit to be burned and a hunger for landfills for the organic fraction is not treated properly. Poor identification and management of such sites and landfills by the Commissioner, generates frequent seizures of these sites by the judiciary and the challenge of citizens, fostering the emergence for the waste that accumulates in the streets.
According to the Neapolitan magistrates, who ordered the seizure of 750 million € of companies controlled by Impregilo, "... the behavior of companies did not appear as linear, although aware from the beginning that waste disposal would not work, did everything they could to conceal this situation .... "
In conclusion it is important to stress that converge in the interests of multinational companies Impregilo central Italian economy, the Fiat group, major construction companies, operators of highways and tunnels, banking and insurance groups listed among the best known in time as shareholders the company is a leader of that part of its managers (such as brothers Romiti). The group could launch an offer to purchase in the coming months Benetton, the financial Gavio stillness Ligresti, united in society Igli.
By Andrea Saccardo, "Bulletin of Assizes of the City of Naples in southern Italy, December-February 2008
For references and further information:
http://www.inca.is/show/, http: / / www.percorsietnici.net; www.impregilo.it; http://terrelibere.org/index.php?x=completa&riga=35;
http://www.90est.it/karahnjukar.html; http : / / www.90est.it/bomben.html; http://www.islanda.it/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=686;
http://www.savingiceland.org/
http://www.panagea.eu/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86&Itemid=2>% 20 & task = view & id = 86 & Itemid = 2
http://archivio.carta.org/rivista/settimanale/2003/39/39Fulignoli.htm;
http://www.pmli.it/milleaffariitaliamondogruppoimpregilo.htm;
http://www.verdinrete.it/sorrento / impregil.htm.
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