PUCCIO you say And I think of the Consortium for the rehabilitation, 'AREA OF Partinico! 
Quando si dice “Guarda un po’ i casi della vita!”. I was thinking about this while, during TV news yesterday listened to an interview by a task Pietro Puccio, the current Deputy Mayor for Public Works to the town of Capaci. Puccio has been appointed by the mayors and representatives of 11 municipalities, including ours, Alcamo and others, especially the coastal zone, as Chairman of the GAL in the Gulf of Castellammare a consortium that is, in fact, among 11 municipalities. This consortium would obtained EU funding of 20 million € and for that, says Puccio , "I will open my for the development of our territory." 20 million euro would be the equivalent of 40 billion old lire. A sum that has a particular meaning as a result will tell you. Puccio well as Mayor from 1994 to 1996 of his town, just capacity, was already in the City Council of the PCI time when even I was in Partinico. In 1996, after the arrest of Musotto, was elected President of the Province of Palermo.Questo assignment ended in 1998 because, ripresentatosi subsequent elections, he was just beaten by the same Musotto that resolved his legal problems, had he wins re-election. Mr. Musotto albeit from a great family tradition of socialist-grandfather Francis, in fact, he was deputy important in that season that saw him, along with the Communists, to defend Danilo Dolci and fellow Partinico arrested for strike-old dirt road after the end of craxismo like many other socialists chose to go with Italy Force. Peter Puccio moved from PCI to PCI -PDS and then to the PDS, the DS and finally to PD. The same drawing many other former communist type Cracolici, Constantine Garraffa and our Tonino Russo, to name a few So in 1984 he was Adviser to the PCI Puccio capacity and all the coast from Isola Carini was murdered, even under the Her eyes, wild dall'abusivismo who built villas and houses into the sea myself, town councilor in Partinico of PCI, with the Democrat Nino Amato in the summer of 1984 gave new life together with some fellow students, involving thousands of citizens to a memorable battle against the distillery Bertolino della'aria in defense of sea water. The distillery was forced to close even with a trick the usual "finest minds" of the DC Partinico, it can be 'at the time the immediate reopening. From that battle comes, the Committee for the cleaning up and re-balancing of the Partinico of reaching, in 1986, an extraordinary goal for the first time in the history of our land to the consortium 11 municipalities (the first coincide with the current consortium headed by Puccio) together with the Province of Palermo. The Consortium for the cleaning up of Partinico, where he became member of the Board of Directors together with Mimmo Brig Totuccio Macaluso, Salvatore Polizzi current mayor of Giardinello, Ino Cardinal that was mayor of Terrasini, Eng. Joachim Nania S, Pino Giuseppe Jato and current officials of the City of Pirreca Borgetto, received a grant from the Region of Sicily of 40 billion (the second coincidence with the consortium headed by Puccio) to carry out a project that was intended to give life to a system of systems able to clean up all the area that goes from sea to Balestrate City. A work is very important that if implemented would change the lives of our entire district permitting, so 'before the reorganization and then really " the development of our territory" in the sense of its preservation and enhancement, the increase of marine wildlife and fisheries development, therefore, so 'as tourism related to your use of the sea and its resources. But that project funded by the Department and Environment and Territory already provided for its implementation, with an invitation to tender for a national company, Thermomechanical (a company state-owned) WAS RECEIVED BY PUCCIO sink because, they said, those billions around the interests of the mafia there was (sic). Obviously the interests of the mafia were unquestionably. But it was like reinventing the wheel in the sense that there was or there is only one "work" the mafia, as now, is not intended or deemed to put their hands. And, therefore, the Board Puccio (and then the next Musotto) rather than engage the consortium and build a common front with a strategy able to secure projects, jobs and therefore their substantial resources from the clutches of the mafia , stopped him (and the same fate for the same reasons that had the project would achieve Corleone-Mare that would put an artery that connects the inland with the coast in a little time) sent "cards" the judiciary, as was pretty obvious, everything froze! Meanwhile, the consortium that had been commissariarto was in 1995, with a highly questionable procedure, loosed for stupidity, superficiliatà, carelessness, poisonous pseudo reasons type of new environmental administrations of the member municipalities and elected in 1994. Government, almost all strictly left of center! . So 'the resources they returned to the region destroying the work and sacrifices of years.
The result today is there for all of us : the polluted sea, then as now, the coast was destroyed, the marine fauna largely disappeared, the river Nocella that continues to spew tons of pollutants daily , polluted water, air or sea. The Corleone-Mare Of course, has remained a dream for the inland populations that remain very distant, isolated and without a rapid approach to the coastal area without counting the cost to the Province of Palermo in recent years had to work with operations buffer and certainly not decisive to improve the road which is always a real danger for those who use it. Cosi 'went up in smoke as the project ready for funding that would create a joint treatment plant between the two municipalities upstream and that Cipirello S. and S. Giuseppe Jato, of course, continue to download then as now in non-purified sewage Poma invaded by the river. Not to mention the design of a new landfill sites being surfed in an advanced stage of the study, the unit handling the sewage treatment plant to reduce costs and have more of the same features of a project for recovery from the wastewater treatment plant and reuse at least 10 million cubic meters. of water annually to be placed in the network that distributes the acqu Poma.che was above the reservoir in the heart of Mimmo Briganò and myself. That scaigurata, bizarre, unjustified rusltato initiative reached a really disastrous for the whole of our territory now wants to "develop"!
I listened yesterday and Puccio Named President of this new consortium, the LAG Catellammare of the Gulf, which was about development and thought and if by chance we extremely stable for each project, when it will be financed by those hypothetical 20 € million that the Consortium should receive, at the contested enforceability of the work, sending it to the judiciary, as concerned about the appetites of any part of the mafia-eradicated and that which will reconstitute - would not go the same way that that the projects of the Consortium of Partinico? Obviously we will not because education policies have SEMPRE un altissivo livello di responsabilità
Alla fine di quella bellissima anche se lacerante esperienza di amministratore di quel Consorzio ,scrissi anche con una certa giustificata rabbia ,un pamphlet dal titolo " Dalla lotta agli inquinatori al Consorzio per il disinquinamento e riequilibrio dell'area del partinicese", il cui contenuto non è stato mai smentito da alcuno . Se qulcuno avesse voglia di saperne di più di quell’esperienza lo può chiedere in prestito alla nostra biblioteca intitolata al compagno Salvatore Barra. Chi avrà voglia di leggerlo avrà modo di capire e meditare cosa significhi demagogia, carelessness political silly antimafiosità.Se has not done before, I also recommend reading the new President of this second, in chronological order, Consortium for the "development of our territory" of that experience was certainly too ; negative role.
Toti Costanzo
