The Lazio Regional Administrative Court issued the ruling on the appeal brought by the Municipality of Piombino against the decision to install a regasification terminal in the city port.
The court rejected the Municipality's reasons, condemning it to pay the legal costs for a total of 90 thousand euros.
This was announced by the Municipality of Piombino (Livorno).
"It is a punitive sentence against a Municipality that had the sole fault of defending its own city - comments the mayor Francesco Ferrari -. Furthermore, the sentence to pay legal expenses is absolutely unjustified: the appeal was considered admissible in its entirety and A similar sentence is unprecedented. Just as the similar sentence to pay costs also borne by USB, WWF and Greenpeace who had spontaneously supported our appeal is unprecedented."
"Evidently the TAR - adds Ferrari - wanted to make the Municipality of Piombino an example for all entities that, in the future, will find themselves in a situation similar to ours and to clarify that, although the reasons for opposition to a certain choice are well founded, the needs of citizens are not a priority.
We pursued what we believed was right, fought a battle that had to be faced, achieving, regardless of this sentence, important results in terms of guarantees on safety and environmental impact. If it had not been for the opposition of this Municipality , of this community, certainly that regasifier would have remained in our port for much longer than three years and without the protections that we managed to obtain".
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