Last week prosecutors brought charges of environmental pollution against five managers of Eni, Italy’s largest oil company, which has run an oil refinery in Gela for 54 years. The prosecutors said Eni for years had been illegally hiding tonnes of toxic waste in a three-mile-long undersea dump off Sicily. In 2007, Fontanella asked the local court to investigate the correlation between the high rate of birth defects and pollution from the refinery, which residents nicknamed “the Monster of Gela”. “Of course I feel angry.”Eni said the study “hasn’t reached appreciable results’’ and “in this context, no reparations is being considered”. And I will fight those waves until the end, until my clients receive what Eni has taken away from them.”

Source: The Guardian December 01, 2017 04:52 UTC