And here we are at this second date of this ferrous column.a coffee on the platform“, where we come back from the advice and opinions of the messages we received for the first introductory episode, trying to set sail on the lifeboat, equipped with “new” ideas to address a topic like the difficult relationship between to tackle us referendum And Performancei.e. the electorate and the energy sector.
Let’s start from the beginning. We are in the period of the oil crises of the 1970s and at the same time in Italy we were on the verge of one of the first referendums on the energy sector, more precisely on nuclear energy. To dig deeper into the situation at the end of the 1980s, when in November 1987, a year after the disaster, the referendum came into force ChernobylWe will explain that the political situation in Italy saw the Christian Democracy and the Italian Communist Party as protagonists.
We are in the First Republic and, from an economic point of view, Italy was in a period of growth and development. According to Wikipedia, the use of nuclear energy in Italy actually took place between 1963 and 1990. After that year, all Italian nuclear power plants were closed, either due to reaching the age limits or due to the results of the 1987 referendum”.
Where, albeit not explicitly, the idea was abandoned. There were four nuclear power plants in Italy: in Latina, Garigliano (Caserta), Trino (Vercelli) and Caorso (Piacenza). But “between 1988 and 1990, the Goria, De Mita and Andreotti VI governments put an end to the Italian nuclear experience by abandoning the Single Nuclear Project and closing the three still functioning power plants, Latina, Trino and Caorso.” Several important events have occurred over the years historical events like the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Maastricht Treaty and, to stay in our Italy, Tangentopoli, the end of the First Republic and Silvio Berlusconi entered the field in 1994.
There would be countless events to mention, but to stay on topic, let’s go one step further… and to continue in chronological order with the referendums that have taken place in Italy on the energy sector, we must start from the oil crises that we have as a result , continuing through 2011 Let’s now turn to the recent manifestations of the financial crisis that led to the famous 2008 crisis that began in the United States and impacted all economies.
In fact, the referendum issue was targeted in 2011 and there was a victory for not installing it Nuclear power plants in Sardinia. If nuclear energy can be considered dangerous for us Italians, it suffices to think that in any case there are power plants in Switzerland or in France on the border with Italy and existing projects such as the ITER project aim to generate clean energy in the future, mentioned in the previous episode of our column “A coffee on the platform”.
Keeping with our connotation to the world of energy, we cannot help but move on to our next referendum on drilling in the Adriatic. Also this is a topic already mentioned in our previous chat that makes us move from 2011 to 2016. The political landscape has changed and among the various governments that have occupied the Palazzo Chigi, we have arrived at the Renzi government. A referendum that was at the center of much debate because a particular political party preferred to analyze the issue from a populist perspective and think about voter approval and try to steer it, rather than thinking about creating value and infrastructure for Italy than he tried to run the government. Everything was then taken over by Croatia.
These various events make us see and recognize the “tough relationship” that exists between the referendum and the world of energy, which we can deduce is not exactly a perfect couple… it’s not Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, to name just one. Faced with populism and a desire to manipulate the electorate for electoral purposes without thinking about the good of the country, Italy has not achieved a result. This should get us thinking about the way to make policies and make decisions in these areas.
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Matteo Cocco, born 1995, Quality Control Inspector, with experience in Oil & Gas and Renewable Energy projects.
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