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19 ontrosenso 20 Settembre 2014 Basilicata SCUOLA BASILICATA IS NOW SEXY Il nostro petrolio in cambio di che? Part II I should think you have had the opportunity to chew on my article of last week on oil in Basilicata. That was based on what we would like to have in exchange should we allow the government to come and drill in our region, which in some way they are already doing. This week, I would like to lay emphasis on what we would not like to have should we decide to provide the almost 60% of oil energy needed to run our belpaese . Going back to several examples of many countries that have had the curse of petroleum - ‘‘la maledizione di petrolio’’ such as Nigeria with it’s Biafra war of 1967-1970 to the latest and ultimate referendum of Scotland wanting to detach from the Great Britain. (Let’s see what’s going to happen with this refendum). The discovery of such rich resource has always created a sort of separatism within countries. Usually the country that end up to become rich overnight by finding out that it has oil in it’s backyard, without knowing it, is always the one which had been discriminated at by others. And God knows how much the whole of Italy has discriminated our beautiful Lucania. So, as soon as it discovers it’s financial power the first thing is to try to go it’s own way. This happened in Biafra and the rest of Nigeria and it is now happening between Aberdeen - Scotland - and Great Britain. The oil of Aberdeen makes it the second richest city in the whole Great Britain after London. Do consider that the wealth of London is mostly in the hands - or should I say the pockets - of foreign investors such as Russia, China and other BRICS (Brazil - Russia - India - China - South Africa) countries. So, at the end of the day, Aberdeen could be the richest city in the GB and Northern Ireland. Apart from the threat of secessionism, there is the heavy problem of public health. We all know that drilling oil out from places where citizens dwell has a direct and indirect impact, short and long term impact on the health of the inhabitants. So, do we really want to risk our health and thus sacrifice our life for the rest of Italy? This is not an off-shore drilling. This is a proper drilling in the distance of metres from restaurants, houses and social infrastructures of the community. Whatever the measures of security and guarantee taken to reduce the damage to our health, it would never be enough to avoid putting our life and that of our children and grand children to risk. So, what shall we do? Some say we should ask for a double guarantee calling in scientists, researchers and expert to give consultancy on how to reduce the risk to the minimum possible. Some say we should ask for relocation of the towns too near to the drilling site. To date, we have always boasted of being one the cleanest regions, pollution wise, in the whole of Italy. We have, for several years consecutively, being awarded the ‘‘Blue Flag’’ - Bandiera Blu - for one of our sea sides. We have always bragged that we are one of the best ‘‘Slow City’’ - Slow Region - in the whole world considering the combination with the ‘‘Slow food’’ of Lucania. How much of a risk are we going to take by sowing crops on the same soil from where we drill oil? Where are the wastes derive from the drilling going to end up? Is it going to be flushed into our beautiful Ionian sea or blended into the scenic Tyrrhenian sea side? Matera, as a pride of Basilicata which has just started bringing in some attractions in terms of tourism due to the UNESCO recognition of it’s beauty and its unique identity will surely be overshadowed by the fumes of of oil drilling and then we may as well say goodbye to our candidacy of Matera as City of Culture 2019. Worse of all, considering that we are always lacking behind in almost all the positive surveys of Italy, right from the fact that Potenza is the most unhappy city in the country to one of the poorest in the whole country and the list is long, do we not want to keep the only primate we have compared to the rest of italy? That is, the region with the longest life expectancy. Women live as long as 85years old and men, 80 years old on the average. I am sure we all want to keep this record of the people that live longer in the whole country, and I don’t think oil pollution goes with longevity. Enjoy. Conundrum: what do you think this is about? If you guess right you win a very big prize. [email protected]

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BASILICATA IS NOW SEXY Il nostro petrolio in cambio di che? Part II

I should think you have had the opportunity to chew on my article of last week

on oil in Basilicata. That was based on what we would like to have in exchange should we allow the government to come and drill in our region, which in some way they are already doing. This week, I would like to lay emphasis on what we would not like to have should we decide to provide the almost 60% of oil energy needed to run our belpaese . Going back to several examples of many countries that have had the curse of petroleum - ‘‘la maledizione di petrolio’’ such as Nigeria with it’s Biafra war of 1967-1970 to the latest and ultimate referendum of

Scotland wanting to detach from the Great Britain. (Let’s see what’s going to happen with this refendum). The discovery of such rich resource has always created a sort of separatism within countries. Usually the country that end up to become rich overnight by fi nding out that it has oil in it’s backyard, without knowing it, is always the one which had been discriminated at by others. And God knows how much the whole of Italy has discriminated our beautiful Lucania. So, as soon as it discovers it’s fi nancial power the fi rst thing is to try to go it’s own way. This happened in Biafra and the rest of Nigeria and it is now happening between Aberdeen - Scotland - and Great Britain. The oil of Aberdeen makes it the second richest city in the whole Great Britain after London. Do consider that the wealth of London is mostly in the hands - or should I say the pockets - of foreign investors such as Russia, China and other BRICS (Brazil - Russia - India - China - South Africa) countries. So, at the end of the day, Aberdeen could be the richest city in the GB and Northern Ireland. Apart from the threat of secessionism, there is the heavy problem of public health. We all know that drilling oil out from

places where citizens dwell has a direct and indirect impact, short and long term impact on the health of the inhabitants. So, do we really want to risk our

health and thus sacrifi ce our life for the rest of Italy? This is not an off-shore drilling. This is a proper drilling in the distance of metres from restaurants, houses

and social infrastructures of the community. Whatever the measures of security and guarantee taken to reduce the damage to our health, it would never be enough to avoid putting our life and that of our children and grand children to risk. So, what shall we do? Some say we should ask for a double guarantee calling in scientists, researchers and expert to give consultancy on how to reduce the risk to the minimum possible. Some say we should ask for relocation of the towns too near to the drilling site. To date, we have always boasted of being one the cleanest regions, pollution wise, in the whole of Italy. We have, for several years consecutively, being awarded the ‘‘Blue Flag’’ - Bandiera Blu - for one of our sea sides. We have always bragged that we are one of the best ‘‘Slow City’’ - Slow Region - in the whole world considering the combination with the ‘‘Slow food’’ of Lucania. How much of a risk are we going to take by sowing crops on the same soil from where we drill oil? Where are the wastes derive from the drilling going to end up? Is it going to be fl ushed into our beautiful Ionian sea or blended into the scenic Tyrrhenian sea

side? Matera, as a pride of Basilicata which has just started bringing in some attractions in terms of tourism due to the UNESCO recognition of it’s beauty and its unique identity will surely be overshadowed by the fumes of of oil drilling and then we may as well say goodbye to our candidacy of Matera as City of Culture 2019. Worse of all, considering that we are always lacking behind in almost all the positive surveys of Italy, right from the fact that Potenza is the most unhappy city in the country to one of the poorest in the whole country and the list is long, do we not want to keep the only primate we have compared to the rest of italy? That is, the region with the longest life expectancy. Women live as long as 85years old and men, 80 years old on the average. I am sure we all want to keep this record of the people that live longer in the whole country, and I don’t think oil pollution goes with longevity.

Enjoy. Conundrum: what do you think this is about? If you guess right you win a very big prize.

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