“The remediation procedures are complex procedures but they must ensure the protection of the environment and health so that the restoration of the areas can be followed by the possibility of using them for the population. The Sites of National Interest, especially, are wounds to be healed, speeding up safety and reclamation is a necessity, without however reducing the quality of the interventions implemented. The decree on the orphan site remediation program that unlocks 105 million euros for remediation went precisely in this direction “. Thus Ilaria Fontana, undersecretary of Mite, on the occasion of the webinar “Contaminated Sites. The characterization and remediation procedures in light of the Decree Law 16 July 2020, n. 76 ”promoted by the National Council of Geologists, in collaboration with RemTech Expo and the Order of Geologists of Lazio.
“Failure to clean up contaminated areas is a serious environmental problem both at national and European level and is sometimes the cause of very serious health damage for millions of people. The National Council of Geologists hopes that adequate resources will also be provided for in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan for the remediation of polluted sites and for the restoration, redevelopment and enhancement of degraded areas. These make it possible to rethink the territory and orient urban planning choices towards reuse, the regeneration of buildings, reducing land consumption “. Thus Archangel Francesco Violo.
“It is necessary to propose concrete solutions – he continues – to transform the management of environmental remediation from a condition of passivity to an opportunity for growth. We need to design a development model based on an extraordinary plan of useful and sustainable interventions, of which environmental remediation must be an integral part “.