The words of the minister
During an interview on the programme Pomeriggio 24, which was then picked up by other press outlets (here for example the article in Il Manifesto by Luca Martinelli), the Minister of Civil Protection Nello Musumeci had strongly critical words towards ISPRA.
Constraining legislation
Speaking about the climate and the consequences that weather events are having on the territory, the Minister stated that “some responsibility also lies with a certain fundamentalist environmentalism that has dictated with its presence a very restrictive legislation and regulation.
Too much bias
Ispra, for example, which is an institute of great science and culture, seems to be in the hands of some particularly biased environmentalists, those who do not allow intervention to remove a tree or consolidate the banks because there is a particular type of bird that needs to nest. This is an ideologized environmentalism”. (source: FIDC).