Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Strong Spaghettistructure

Aiutiamo Dante De Angelis

Hello to all / i,
many of you probably have followed the dismissal of Dante De Angelis, the driver of FS and responsible trade union security. I wanted to invite you to sign the online petition for his reinstatement on the site firmiamo.it.


I am attaching the press ATTAC

DANTE AND 'ONE OF U.S.. DISMISS THE MANAGERS OF TRENITALIA!

Once again, the former Ferrovie dello Stato SpA, Trenitalia now become, show the true face of the privatization of public services: the only law is the market, the rights of workers and citizens are the dependent variable.

Only in this way, the former trade union CGIL Moretti, now CEO of SpA, can afford to dismiss Dante De Angelis, a railroad security officer, that all s we learned about the continuing reports on the deterioration of working conditions and the ensuing disaster on the side of safety and quality of service rendered to citizens.

in the Italian "brunettizzata" these ominous times, Trenitalia has perhaps thought that a dismissal in mid-August could pass over in silence and resignation.

So it's not, so it should be.

Dante is one of us.

His fight for different working conditions and safety of rail transport is our struggle against all forms of privatization and transformation into a commodity of common goods and public services.

Moving is a right. Do so using public transport is now more than ever a necessity.

All this has nothing to do with finding a business that has transformed transport for commuters and travelers in Fantastic Voyage on long runs ... plucking chickens in pending privatization final with high speed.

While the workers, now considered little more than a burden, are forced to exhausting shifts, overtime without interruption, increasingly heavy workloads. And to silence or to be fired if only doing their duty to inform on the risks to transportation security.

We urge the immediate reinstatement of Dante in his job, but we also ask that you open one of the workers and citizens with a strong channel of communication and joint mobilization to demand strongly the transport ripubblicizzazione pubblico e la sua gestione partecipativa con il concorso dei lavoratori e degli utenti a qualsiasi livello.

Vogliamo vivere in un Paese in cui salire su un treno non sia più un costoso incubo quotidiano, bensì un modo per muoversi senza preoccupazioni e contribuire alla tutela dell’ambiente e della qualità della vita.

Siamo certi che sarà così se a guidare quel treno ci saranno Dante e quelli come lui.


ATTAC ITALIA

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Swollen Eyelids Swollen Tongue

Le tre A

Ambiente, Agricoltura, Alimentazione

L’agricoltura è un insieme di attività fondamentali per the sustainability of society and the historical and cultural identity of the country. The reduction in the use of chemicals in agriculture, the development of biological, environmental protection and quality of local products, maintenance and protection of territory from the hydrogeological, the development of renewable energy production: these are the strategic objectives that must be assigned to 'Agriculture, whose various functions are also recognized in terms of economic resources.
To this end, it is necessary to strengthen the licensing system, control and supervision of product, promotion of brands to quality production, the incentive system for labeling traceability of raw materials. These are tools to enhance the role of quality production and biological protection to consumers and producers. A new alliance is necessary today between consumers and citizens citizens producers in agriculture, an alliance that makes the link environmental protection and health promotion of quality, the re-launch of a vital sector of society.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Is The Reebok Precision Xt Ant

Elezioni rinuclearizzate

Elections rinuclearizzate

Lucia Venturi www.greenreport.it

LIVORNO. The last day of campaign Election ends with a fiery exchange of views on a theme that has characterized the political debate from the outset: the return to nuclear power. The object that triggered the last match is a map by Pecoraro Scanio, attributed to a study commissioned by the PDL, which show possible sites where to build new nuclear power plants in Italy. Ben 15 the suitable areas, which are in sites which already exist or decommissioning old power plants, or plants which had been proposed, never built, since our country has chosen in 1987 by referendum, which saw more than 80 % of the population speak in a manner contrary to atomic energy, to abandon one way to produce electricity. Studio immediately denied by the head of the PDL energy, Stefano Saglia, which calls for a more realistic position, expressed by his party: first the establishment of an agency to solve the problem of waste have yet to be secured, then the possibility to identify at most two, three sites where planning to produce new plants. Pecoraro Scanio called into question by even the Democratic Party "wanted to reopen the nuclear," he responds immediately Realacci that do not talk to reopen plants in our country and the opening is instead seeking a new generation of nuclear power. If the intent was to throw a load of ninety sulla parte avversa, il risultato ottenuto è ben lungi dall’atteso. Ma quello che sorprende non è tanto la polemica (tutta elettorale) tra le parti, quanto il fatto che il tema nucleare sia stato, in questa campagna elettorale, una delle principali questioni di cui si è discusso. E su cui anche la stampa ha dato un contributo non indifferente a tenere vivo il dibattito, in maniera quasi quotidiana. Una situazione del tutto nuova, non tanto per il fatto di scoprire che vi sono opinioni favorevoli all’energia atomica (tra l’altro bipartisan), o che l’apertura alla ricerca sulla nuova generazione di centrali atomiche sia scritta nei programmi elettorali: cosa questa del resto nota e già presente anche nella scorsa campagna election. The novelty lies in the fact that there is a marked change of approach that allows a widespread debate on this issue could become a priority and not marginal in the election campaign. A sign that this is expected to gain votes in a back and forth by all parties involved. And that is less appealing instead to talk about renewable energy, a subject on which apparently all agree that it is in all parties' programs, but whose declination on wind energy for example, could instead give rise to widespread discontent , these certainly bipartisan.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Frequency Indian Channel Astra



incinerator, how much it costs?
Federico Valerio
reported by AWARE 6




The incineration is the most expensive system for waste disposal and all the Italians, unknown to them, pay generous incentives to support it

The campaign in favor of energy plants, the largest managed by all means of mass communication, deliberately omits two essential information: "How it costs and who pay? ". According to EU documents, the answer to the first question is that incineration is the most expensive method to dispose of waste.
In Austria, the incineration of one ton of waste by the waste incineration plant in Vienna, what is said to be in the city center and has been in the care of an imaginative aesthetic architect, well costs 148 Euro. In Denmark, the waste incinerator plant in Copenhagen would have us believe that we are close to the "Little Mermaid", costs € 97 per tonne. Burning waste in Germany costs a little 'less: € 88 per tonne. [...]
The lower costs of incinerators in Germany, than the Danes and Austrians have an explanation. Germany is rich in old salt mines, where safety can be stored in the so-called fly ash, which is all that remains in the filter after the purification of the flue gas of incinerators, real toxic waste because they contain such high concentrations, heavy metals, dioxins, furans, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
And these same salt mines run out of toxic waste incinerator in Vienna and the incinerator of Brescia, while the Danes, to save and export their fly ash in neighboring Sweden. This traffic of toxic waste costs a lot of money: for each ton of ash volanti gli austriaci pagano 363 euro e i tedeschi 255 euro. […]

La beffa italiana degli incentivi all’incenerimento
Anche in Italia termovalorizzare rifiuti è una scelta che si paga a caro prezzo: mediamente, 90 euro a tonnellata. Eppure, nel nostro paese smaltire le ceneri volanti costa molto poco (129 euro a tonnellata). Sarebbe interessante capire in quale modo riusciamo ad avere prezzi così bassi anche perché, come sappiamo, l’Italia non ha miniere di salgemma disponibili per lo stoccaggio di rifiuti pericolosi.
Ma la via italiana alla termovalorizzazione dei rifiuti ha altre singolari particolarità.
While Austria, Denmark, Belgium tax the incineration of waste (from 4 to € 71 per tonne) in Italy, this technology has encouraged with generous donations in cash, paid to electricity produced by burning garbage.
Across Europe the sale of electricity produced by burning waste is made at prices very similar to that of electricity from conventional sources (oil, coal, natural gas), or approximately 4 cents per kilowatt hour.
In Italy, sales of electricity produced from fruit to the operator of an incinerator from 9 to 14 cents per kilowatt hour, depending on the economic incentive is drawing on the advantages provided by the "green certificates" or the so-called CIP6 .
In both cases, these incentives should go to renewable energy sources (solar, wind, biomass) and instead go to support the incineration of waste, declared by law, all Italian, renewable energy source.
This means that the operator, for every tonne of waste incinerators, thanks to electricity produced (0.5 chilowatore per kilogram of waste incinerators), receiving a bonus ranging from 25 to 50 €.
this money come from the portfolios of all Italian families and this (the Italian families) is the answer to the second question that we made at the beginning of this conversation: who pays?
In this case, the incentives for incineration are paid the electricity bill, a real hidden tax that is added to the waste tax which is already expensive, but that is likely to increase when, as expected all the district plans is termovalorizzerà 65% of the waste produced by the Italians.
Currently, approximately 60% of waste produced in Italy is sent to landfills and the average cost of landfill (64 € per ton) is much lower than incineration
With the current system of collection and disposal of waste and the 'Current Per capita production of waste (about 550 pounds per year), the cost borne by households for the disposal of a kilogram of waste is about 12 cents. When in Italy will be working every 140 incinerators planned, it is inevitable a generalized strong increase in the tax on waste, which is expected to be equal to 40% more than the actual rate. In this situation, the cost paid by households for the disposal of a kilogram of waste could rise to about 17 cents.
But if the choice of the energy plant will push forward the true cost of waste to energy, always under the Italian families, will be ancora maggiore.
Pochi sanno che ogni volta che compriamo qualche cosa, paghiamo 7 centesimi per ogni chilo di imballaggio con cui è confezionato il nostro acquisto: contenitore in vetro, plastica, metallo, scatola di cartone, involucro in plastica, sacchetto.
Questa tassa va al Consorzio Nazionale Imballaggi (CONAI) e dovrebbe servire a coprire i costi per la raccolta e il riciclaggio degli stessi imballaggi.
Ma l’Italia ha i più bassi tassi di riciclaggio in Europa (circa il 20%), destinati a rimanere bassi, grazie alla “furbata” tutta italiana di far diventare, per legge, la termovalorizzazione una forma di riciclo.
Pertanto, la tassa pagata per il riciclo degli imballaggi non is, and will not be used for their intended purpose if all the incinerators will be built that anyone would want (one for each province) and this could constitute a massive fraud to the detriment of all Italians.
In conclusion, a kilogram of packaging waste to energy plants, counting future tax waste (17 cents.) Packaging recycling tax (7 cents.) And the cost of green certificates (9 cents.) Italian families will cost about 33 cents (639 lire).

SOURCE
The article is excerpted from the book by Federico Valerio incinerator? No! All I have not ever said about waste incinerators, and many of you begin to ask edited by Andromeda (Reprint series No. 21). You can buy the book online via the website
www.macrolibrarsi.it .