"Noting that the landscape has an important function of general interest, cultural, ecological, environmental and social resource and provides a favorable economic activity, and that, if protected, managed and planned properly, can help to create jobs;
Aware that the landscape and cooperation in the development of local cultures is an essential part of the cultural and natural heritage of Europe, thus contributing to the welfare and satisfaction of human beings and the consolidation of ' European identity;
Acknowledging that the landscape is everywhere an important element of quality of life for people everywhere: in urban areas and countryside, in degraded areas, as in those of high quality, in areas considered to be exceptional, as in those of everyday life
Noting that developments in the techniques of agricultural production, forestry, industry and mine planning and practices in land use planning, urban planning, transport, infrastructure, tourism and recreation and, more generally, changes in the world economy, in many cases accelerating the transformation of landscapes;
Wishing to satisfy the public's wish to enjoy a landscape quality and to play an active role in its transformation;
Believing that the landscape is a key element of individual and social wellbeing, and that its preservation , its management and planning entail rights and responsibilities for everyone;
Bearing in mind the legal texts existing at international level in the field of protection and management of natural and cultural heritage, spatial planning, of local and cross-border cooperation and in particular the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats of Europe (Bern, September 19, 1979), the Convention for the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of Europe (Granada, 3 October 1985), the European Convention for the Protection of Archaeological Heritage (revised) (Valletta, 16 January 1992), the European Outline Convention on Transfrontier Cooperation between Territorial Communities or Authorities (Madrid, May 21, 1980) and its Additional Protocols, the European Charter of Local Self (Strasbourg, 15 October 1985), the Convention on Biological Diversity (Rio, June 5, 1992), the Convention on the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage (Paris, November 16 1972), and the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus, 25 June 1998)
These considerations, taken from European Landscape Convention, signed in Florence in October 2000 by the Member States of the Council of Europe, which recognized as a unique setting in which the term landscape "designates a certain portion of territory as it is perceived by people , whose character derives from the natural and / or humans and their interrelationships. " ..., how to reconcile with the choices made by the political class in local, regional and national as obviously affect the entire coastal region and have not taken any account the Aarhus Convention?
Even today despite the inevitable transformations How can we reconcile with the choices made by the political class and not Agrigento
However it is essential to reflect on why certain events happen in some places!
In this regard it should be noted that territory and, in particular, the port area and the abandoned areas of Porto Empedocle never realize a design study and feasibility.
So far result is not credible counter piecemeal projects to a hypothesis employment (but part!) As that relating to the placing of a regasification plant in Kaos.
E 'worth remembering that opposing argument so far in reference to the preservation of the landscape, the Valley of the Temples of Kaos does not seem to convince the political class.
As if the landscape of the Valley of the Temples: which is part of human history, (does not belong only to the culture and Agrigento in Sicily, but is the most extraordinary testimony of man's past), and less important than a damn regasification terminal - a scheme that would guarantee fewer jobs in an average hotel - but certainly cause failures that can never be "compensated" (as they say "they") by anyone. In the city of Agrigento
exists for a wonderful twist of fate, a "time machine" that can travel to the lucky visitors in a spectacular way to the dawn of civilization.
I wonder and wonder how it is possible build the "future" man if you do not preserve the past? Agrigento
Here there is a good of humanity, which runs the serious risk of becoming a crime against humanity, because if it continues to be overlooked and neglected even worse is destined in time to destroy.
In fact, at present, cultural heritage, the valley and the adjacent territory, waiting may be more fully enjoyed for economic purposes should, at least, to be preserved from external agents and thieves.
We must, therefore, to secure (in the broadest sense of the word) the archaeological site and landscape.
The approach taken root among those who decide on the future of cultural deposit suggests to me how often the story, for some, not teach anything (remember the permits issued in the fifties at the FIAT to build warehouses in the plain below the Temple of San Gregorio Concordia, disaster averted by the Community national and international cultural and, in particular, by the action of Pietro Griffo).
And if these few are acting to preserve, defend and pass on to posterity of the assets that are part of the story, then we are being really bad. And there is no future to imagine!
addition to all the above considerations: it would be extremely significant that the ruling class would put the questions that transcend the importance ventilated employment initiative (important to whom?) And did not think of an essential tool for civic life : Democracy at last!
E 'useful report on the Pharaonic project of regasification terminal - promoted by a subsidiary Bergamo's famous steel and .... subsequently sold to ENEL - did not take no account of the Treaty of Aharus (which requires the participation of the population in decision-making in the field of systems with high environmental risk which is precisely the LNG terminal) and it was decided outside advice municipal and provincial that too often are called upon to approve decisions already taken in the secretariats of the parties.
E 'this so called democracy by political parties?
It 's a democracy that responds to the interests of citizens, or rather those of the "oligarchy of financial-economic power"?
E 'urgent, therefore, that in no time the affected communities to react in a very professional EPC of a feasibility study on the entire area in question who can see the development projects (and the reflections of employment) which are completely different from later, as an anachronism, a proposition of pseudo industrial development of limited scope.
Thank you for your sensitivity will be given to the problems reported and the contribution of ideas and commitment that will be addressed communities to resolve the impasse in which they are precipitated.
Alessio Lattuca
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