a new article...on problems of toxicity in italy...in italian

10/24/2009 - 05:48

��most of us that live here and read the papers know already there is a major problem in specific areas of Italy with very high cancer rates and child deformity at birth... just a couple of the add on effects to the Mafia control of toxic waste here..areas of this sort are not advertised... ��knowledge is gained by research.. and you really need �� to look into that side of things... or by living here and reading local papers... ��if you are interested in an area all small provinces even cities of Italy have their own newspapers online...and its worth reading them ...��however not easy i know...and generally if you write about one area a slanging match starts as to why the problem should not be talked about because their region is the best and you live in the worst..etc etc... or no one who comes to Italy will ever have mafia problems.. playing on the concept of the mafia as some gun toting male in a sharp suit calling on you for a protection fund...its very easy to make fun of it all and ignore the real problems...which is what in the past most of Italy has done...thankfully a generation of aware and educated people are getting around to asking questions.. why do certain areas of Italy have cancer rates 400 per cent higher.. ��where has all the radio active waste from Italys past nuclear programme been buried... ��the answers are here and there ..anyway the above is a good general picture of the problem...laying the blame equally on the major companies here that do deals to have waste removed at prices below cost...knowing it will be dumped illegally...to the mafia that controls it all...��

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You are so right to highlight this, Adriatica.�� Here is a Business Week article from 6 years ago, , and nothing much seems to have changed.�� Worryingly, the Pitelli site mentioned in that article is only 3 miles away from where I grow my veg and less than 10 miles from the world famous Cinque Terre.�� Not many people are aware of that.�� Apparently they have cleaned up the site in the meantime, but who knows what will have leached into the soil over the 15-20 years that dump had been used.��Pitelli now eerily seems like a ghost town, somewhere cheap to live in easy commuting distance to La Spezia.�� It shows you that the problem is not just confined to the South.

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