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> Subject: TUTTA L' EUROPA PER SALVARE IL VAL DI
> NOTO!!!
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> DIFFONDI QUESTA EMAIL A TEMPESTA!!!
> CONTRIBUIRAI COSI'A SALVARE IL VAL DI NOTO DALLE
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> L'ARTICOLO DI CAMILLERI SU LA REPUBBLICA TRASFORMA
> IN CASO INTERNAZIONALE IL PROBLEMA DELLE
> TRIVELLAZIONI GAS-PETROLIFERE NEL TERRITORIO DOVE
> RICADONO I SITI UNESCO: IL VAL DI NOTO!!!
> Times e Guardian rilanciano l'appello di Camilleri
> contro le trivellazioni nel sito protetto
> dall'Unesco
> Anche Le Monde di Parigi pubblicherà la lettera di
> Camilleri!
> I giornali inglesi per Val di Noto!!!
> PETIZIONE: siamo già a 35.000 firme
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> FIRMA ANCHE TU L'APPELLO
> VIDEO, FOTO, INTERVENTI: MINACCIA PETROLIO
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> VEDETE ANCHE QUESTO PEZZO!!
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http://www.repubblica.it/2007/06/sezioni/cronaca/camilleri-noto/stampa-straniera\
/stampa-straniera.html
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> SE QUALCUNO TRADUCE IL PEZZO SOTTO E LO RINVIA AL
> COMITATO VINCERà IL PREMIO
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> "CONTRIBUISCO A SALVARE IL VAL DI NOTO"...
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>
> From The Times - LONDON
>
> June 8, 2007
>
> Jewel of a cathedral faces new threat
>
> after tycoon is allowed to drill for oil
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> Richard Owen in Rome
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> The cathedral known as the "jewel of European
> Baroque", rebuilt painstakingly after an earthquake,
> is at risk from oil drilling off the coast of
> Sicily.
>
> The 18th-century cathedral at Noto, on the southeast
> coast of Sicily, is to reopen this month after a
> decade of restoration at a cost of £17 million. The
> dome collapsed into the nave in 1996 because of
> failure to repair cracks caused by an earlier
> earthquake. The restoration is hailed as a "Baroque
> rebirth".
>
> Noto was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in
> 2000. However, Panther Oil, owned by the Texan oil
> baron James Smitherman III, has been given
> permission by the Sicilian regional authority to
> prospect for petroleum and natural gas in a 764sq km
> (295sq mile) area, to the anger of local
> campaigners.
>
> One of the most vociferous is Andrea Camilleri - the
> detective writer gaining a worldwide audience for
> his Inspector Montalbano mysteries. "How would the
> people of Rome feel if oil rigs were allowed at the
> Colosseum, or the people of Venice if nodding
> donkeys appeared in St Mark's Square?" Mr Camilleri
> said in a front-page appeal in La Repubblica.
>
> Corrado Valvo, the Mayor, said that the glories of
> Noto - a town built in the Baroque style after a
> devastating earthquake in 1693, when Sicily was
> under Spanish rule - were incomparable. "We have not
> only Baroque architecture but also nature reserves,
> ancient necropolises, Roman mosaics, superb olive
> oil and wines, almond trees and citrus fruits," he
> said.
>
> Enzo Moscuzza, a protest leader, said: "The damage
> to Noto's image has already been done. People have
> made huge investments here in vineyards and organic
> farming - now it is all in jeopardy."
>
> "This land must not be profaned," the Bishop of
> Noto, Monsignor Giuseppe Malandrino, declared. "We
> have slept for centuries, but we have finally woken
> up. We must protect the blessings the Lord has given
> us."
>
> The decision to allow drilling reverses a move two
> years ago by Fabio Granata, then in charge of
> culture, to stop the project after initial soundings
> began in 2004.
>
> Nicola Piazza, Panther Oil's representative in
> Italy, said that Italian companies were already
> active in Sicily, where 10 per cent of Italian oil
> is refined. Panther co-operated fully with
> archaeologists and conservationists and had promised
> to give 7 per cent of profits for local
> infrastructure, he said. Mr Smitherman said that the
> company was interested mainly in methane gas. The
> project posed "no risk to the Unesco heritage
> sites", he said. "We are only drilling on land used
> for grazing."
>
> Nello de Pasquale, the Mayor of nearby Ragusa, who
> favours the drilling, said that it would create
> badly needed employment. "We have had oil wells in
> Sicily for half a century and they have never caused
> pollution," he said.
>
> However, thousands of local people have demonstrated
> against the decision. Mr Camilleri said that the
> go-ahead followed "typically Italian
> behind-the-scenes political manoeuvring, in which
> the economically strongest have prevailed over those
> who value the environment". The oilmen had been
> given "carte blanche to destroy everything that is
> best about Sicily for the sake of a moneymaking
> operation that will make a few people rich", he
> said. The move was a "mortal blow" to tourism just
> as it had begun to revive after the cathedral's
> restoration.
>
> Mr Granata - now Deputy Mayor of Siracusa - said:
> "This is not just about safeguarding monuments and
> the landscape. Outside economic interests are
> imposing a model of industrial development on us
> which is at odds with our aims in tourism and
> culture."
>
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