The industrial port of Porto Torres will become the landing point for Sardinian gas carriers .
Forty-six small LNG carriers will ply each year to unload LNG at the E.On coal dock. Snam's project to build the regasification unit, on a vessel permanently moored in the E.On quay, was filed with the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (Mase), for obtaining an environmental impact assessment.
Environmentalists are demanding compensation for the territory in exchange for national energy-industrial projects. "Porto Torres has done its part in pursuing national objectives in the past and will certainly do its part once again", underlines Giuseppe Alesso , president of the Committee for the Protection of the Gulf of Asinara "by making its territory available for the good of the country, paying a enormous environmental and social cost never compensated and, in truth, never even claimed». According to the Committee, over the years the Fiume Santo thermoelectric plant has released tens of thousands of tons of pollutants into the air. "It is unrealistic to think that these emissions have had no effect on the quality of our life," adds Alesso.
"We therefore believe that we need to discuss the opportunities and risks that gas tankers, or a future onshore regasification terminal to be able to supply the Fiume Santo plant with gas, can represent for our area ". For the Committee, the time has come to take the opportunity to discuss the dutiful economic compensation "which must and will have to be paid to our city".