Francesco Bruzzone, Senator of the League, vice president of the Environment Commission of Palazzo Madama, spoke in the classroom regarding the damage caused by bad weather in Liguria and in Italy. “First of all, I would like to thank the Presidency who, at the beginning of the session, recalled in an excellent way the sad events that have affected us, as a territory, in these days and in recent days. These are events of particular magnitude. I come from a Region that has suffered further damage compared to those we all already know, but I have heard many of the speakers talk about hydrogeological instability ”, began Sen. Bruzzone.
"In this regard, I would like to draw attention to a fact and take up words that have appeared in the media in recent days:" If you do not touch the tree and do not drag the river, nature presents the bill ". «The wood lives and must be cared for and the river bed dredged. Inertia, absence and ignorance are sometimes the basis of these facts. The protection of the mountains should be entrusted to local communities ». These words are not mine, they are from the Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini, who wanted to launch a message that I not only fully agree with, but there is no shadow of a doubt that aid, even economic, is important, but interventions on the territory, those concerning the management of the territory that man must do must be allowed. I would almost say freely allowed, because we all agree that the salamander rather than the howling toad must be safeguarded, but I believe that people's lives must also be safeguarded and often it is a question of having to make choices with respect to this ”, he continued.
"I conclude, to make people understand what we are experiencing in an important reality from a tourist point of view such as Liguria, adding that the main tourist resort of our Region is isolated and who knows when it can be connected with the means of communication, if not only via sea, but when the sea is rough that place, small but important and known in the world, is isolated. Well, an attempt to connect it by widening a path to be able to cope with any need for rescue, is in these hours faced and hindered by absurd forms of parlor environmentalism that ask to prevent the widening of a path simply because it affects the territory of a Park. I think that even in these cases the problems must be solved and addressed and if elements such as the park are obstacles to the health and safety of the people, in some cases they must be eliminated ”, concluded the Senator of the League Francesco Bruzzone.