Ten years ago the Vinyls experience in Porto Torres ended, the last 88 employees had been fired, workers ended up on the front pages of the newspapers for the sensational protest in the Aragonese tower and then in the former Asinara prison, which became famous with the name of “Island of redundant workers”. That industrial area relating to the Vinyls Italia SpA bankruptcy within the Porto Torres site of national interest, thanks to the rehabilitation work, could represent a place for the development of other enterprises.
In fact, the operational process for emergency safety measures, preparatory investigations and reclamation planning, reclamation works on unsaturated soils in the "CVM" area and on groundwater has begun thanks to the Provincial Industrial Consortium of Sassari. in the "PVC" area, both in the Vinyls bankruptcy area. The Provincial Industrial Consortium of Sassari is the implementing body delegated by the Region for the remediation of "orphan sites", i.e. a potentially contaminated area for which the person responsible for the pollution cannot be identified or does not comply with the law. The areas relating to the Vinyls Italia bankruptcy fall within this framework.
«This is a source of great satisfaction because our environmental sector, already solid and specialized, will be able to strengthen its experience and capacity in the regional context», comments the president of Cips, Valerio Scanu. In 2009, the company took over a plant from Ineos that operated in the former petrochemical plant of Porto Torres for the production of PVC. After several years in a state of insolvency, it was declared bankrupt in 2013, leaving behind a serious state of environmental pollution, also caused by previous management. In this context, CIPS has already operated, as an executor on behalf of the Region, with previous interventions to make 8 tanks safe, which contained residues from the old production.
Approximately 1.6 million euros have already been spent on these interventions, recently completed, financed by Ras. To start the reclamation operations, Pnrr resources of 5.8 million euros are available, which the Region will transfer to the Industrial Consortium through the Environment Department. The intervention is planned over a large area and consists in the management of the continuation of the emergency safety measures of the aquifer, in the carrying out of the preparatory investigations for the reclamation planning, in the definitive and executive planning and in the implementation of the reclamation of the unsaturated soils in the area "CVM" of groundwater in the "PVC" area.
