Posted on 03/28/2017 3:32:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Italian police broke up a protest by environmentalists trying prevent the removal of a grove of olive trees dating back centuries standing in the way of a $40 billion pipeline to bring Asian gas to Europe.
The trees, including some more than 100 years old, are in the path of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), the final stage of the so-called southern gas corridor designed to reduce the European Union's dependence on Russian energy.
On Monday, a top Italian court gave the go-ahead to start work on TAP, rejecting appeals by local authorities in the southern Puglia region who wanted to move the landfall.
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Because if they wipe out this olive orchard, there will be no more old olive orchards in the whole Med region and there will be no more olive oil.
Given that everyone local seems to be against it, my guess would be that something significant has been omitted from the story.
Dunning the government for money is a local tradition in Italy.
I was riding around Abruzzo with an uncle once. A long line young trees lined the road. Every other one was dead. I asked my uncle what was up with that.
“Workers cut the root balls off before planting them. They’re hoping to be called back to replace the dead ones.”
http://abc.az/eng/news_28_03_2017_102767.html. Replanting them later.
> Dunning the government for money is a local tradition in Italy.
Yeah, most places it’s the other way around.
“Dunning the government for money is a local tradition in Italy.
Yeah, most places it’s the other way around.”
My grandfather vacillated about leaving Italy for America for years. He used to travel back and forth working and coming home again.
But something happened that sealed the deal. Mussolini sent soldiers to the little villages to confiscate the women’s jewelry. That was the last straw.
They came only for the women’s jewelry, the men were to poor to have any.
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