Milazzo Surroundings: Once Hope for Tourism & Agricultural Development, Today One of the Most Polluted Areas in Italy
Coincidences happen. It is just a few days ago that I talked badly about the industrial area of Giammoro and praised Aicon for its successes. Just yesterday I came across an article published on Il Corriere della Sera, the major Italian newspaper, where the journalist highlights the environmental disasters of the area concerning the city of Milazzo and its surroundings, basically the area I was talking about in my previous post. Milazzo is the city where I mostly spent my teenegar years. For five years, I woke up at 6AM to take the bus and go to school in Milazzo. Classes started at 8:30AM. The bus was taking me with several other kids through those polluted and filthy areas every morning. When I bought my first scooter, a Peugeot Metropolis, I remember riding it through those dumps to go to Milazzo. One day after school, I was riding it back home while there was a big explosion at the close refinery. Eight people died. It was in 1993 during my senior year of high school. A big cloud of smoke came up in the sky. It was a big accident, but nothing changed for Milazzo and its surrounding areas. Still people know that the area is unhealthy, still people suffer deadly diseases from it, still politicians know and promise, BUT nothing EVER EVER changes.
Check the article and the videos on Corriere.it (unfortunately, it is all in Italian. I have not had the time to translate)
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