“Government-EU intervention is needed” • Nove da Firenze
Florence, September 3 – “Establishing a system always proves to be a correct solution, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, to curb price speculation”, says Alessandro Sorani, President of Confartigianato Florence, speaking of the Multienergy Consortium, launched over twenty years ago by Confartigianato and much appreciated by the associates.
“Multi-energy it represents a useful buffer measure, a barrier to contain the increases but clearly it cannot be enough to overcome the perfect storm that is foreshadowing. Also because – he underlines Sorani – we always intervene downstream, not at the origin of the problem, where it is up to the government and the European institutions to intervene “. Sorani: “a new energy strategy must be adopted as soon as possible “and must include” a tariff ceiling, for which we register a concrete opening, and also contributions to companies to amortize the increases, stable energy diplomacy, in the Mediterranean and beyond, to continue diversification of gas but above all sources self-producedsuch as renewables – and in Tuscany we are growing on geothermal energy – but also nuclear power, which for us is not taboo.
Also because we can afford few vetoes now “, I conclude Sorani.
“They are heroic, but the fatigue begins to be felt. So, either immediate interventions or, in the new year, even in Tuscany the serious and irreversible damage to the production system will be counted. Until now, companies have resisted by eroding their margins, but now it will be increasingly difficult: the costs of energy, gas, raw materials are killing them “. Maurizio Bigazzi president of Confindustria Toscana to intervene on the unsustainable costs that weigh on companies in the region.
“Yesterday, however, at least some good news arrived – he continues Bigazzi – with the Council of Ministers which released the construction of the Abbadia San Salvatore geothermal power plant and the Mugello wind power plant, which the Region had authorized and which the Superintendencies had blocked. Move forward towards that necessary infrastructural endowment of urgent need to cope with this energy tsunami that is overwhelming businesses and families, and which perhaps foresees the intention “.
“Now we are also waiting for answers on gas starting from regasifiers, because the stocks will not be sufficient and it is clear that the forecast in Piombino is a fundamental element of that national strategy that companies and families will have to face the otherwise certain energy emergency. Industry needs energy and certainties in terms of availability and costs; which at this moment we do not have and are unable to foresee ”.
“For months, in fact, the tsunami alarm has been raised for the costs of energy and raw materials, but the voice of companies can only be heard when the problems can no longer be hidden because they have become too great; forgetting that the economy of the country is made by companies that today struggle to cope with costs that are increasingly incompatible with business activity “.
“Still reigns, a total uncertainty about the measures to be taken against the energy crisis. It seems that still February 24 and not September 1. Yet, as he said Bonomiwe are facing an economic earthquake and we entrepreneurs are terrified. “He doesn’t mince words Claudio Tongiani, President of Confindustria Fiorentina Sud – Chianti. “While for a large part of the companies, even in the Chianti area with which I am in constant contact, is approaching a point of no return, and not in October, I continue to read vague proposals, from all parties, on the roof at the price of gas – he adds Tongians – but it is necessary to explain, technically, how to apply it and, above all, with what times, assuming that now and not in February, at definitely exploded prices, it can produce some kind.
And on this too I have some perplexity. “” But confusion does not reign only in the political forces. The government talks about records in storage but we must realize that, with the dripping imposed on us from Russia and the continuous ‘maintenance’, we need alternatives to gas in generating electricity, because the reserves would run out immediately and certainly could not meet the needs of the second European manufacturing “.” The entrepreneurs, or those who, it is not superfluous to remember, they support the country-wide system, they are perfectly clear that no one has yet realized the epochal crisis.
The whole Confindustria system is denouncing it with force but the countermeasures have not yet been seen “.” Here – you insist Tongians – the survival of our productive fabric is at stake and, I go further, our quality of life. I appeal to everyone: politicians and non-aspirants influencer. We entrepreneurs have been in the breach for almost three years, almost without support: either we square up on companies or all of Italy collapses “, concludes the President Tongiani.
“We started from Prato because at the moment the energy crisis is a priority and this city is in danger of losing jobs, companies and a centuries-old tradition such as that of textiles”: Riccardo Ricciardi vice president of the Movimento5Stelle and candidate in Tuscany thus opened the appointment in the textile capital where, together with Ettore Licheri and Chiara Bartalini, candidate for the Chamber, met with citizens, activists and entrepreneurs. “Here the energy crisis that has made bills jump from 50 to 500 thousand euros in a few months and companies risk closing: we cannot allow it and for this reason we are relaunching our request to the government to immediately proceed with a budget shift to tackle the ongoing energy pandemic and save businesses and families, ”he said Ricciardi.
“Many here acknowledge that we were the first, in unsuspected times, to raise the problem of the energy crisis. If we have succeeded in doing so, it is because we have always maintained the link with the territories, talking to people, just like we have done here. Today the other parties are shedding crocodile tears: they do not need nor do they need an armistice. Money is needed to guarantee a social shield like during the pandemic ”he insisted Ettore Licheri, leader of the plurinominal board of the Senateuntil 2020 of the Senate Committee on European Union Policies.
“From Prato we start a series of meetings that are in the wake of what we do every day together with activists and advisers: talking to people, listening to their problems and proposing concrete solutions. Against the high bills, a European agreement is immediately needed for “community” gas purchases and storage and the recovery of 9 billion extra profits by companies that speculated during the emergency ”he added Chiara Bartalini.