Confagricoltura says no to the San Benigno biomethane plant

Confagricoltura Torino , which in recent weeks had already taken sides against the hypothesis of installing a plant for the production of biomethane from forsu (organic fraction of urban solid waste) in the territory of the municipality of Caluso , not far from the Mandria di Chivasso , now takes a stand against the proposal to build a similar plant that the Canavese Green Energy company would like to build in San Benigno Canavese.

Confagricoltura appreciates the position of the Municipality of San Benigno which has announced its opposition to the project, both from an urban planning point of view, a matter of clear territorial competence, and from a technical and environmental point of view.

In recent days, the director of Confagricoltura Torino Ercole Zuccaro met a delegation of farmers and citizens of San Benigno Canavese, Volpiano and Chivasso, with the representatives of the spontaneous environmental committee set up in the area, carrying out an inspection in the area now cultivated with products that supply local farms.

The San Benigno plant, in the intentions of the proponents, would be located on 55,000 square meters of land that the Municipality has included in the Master Plan as an industrial area but which is currently used for agricultural crops, such as wheat and corn. " This is land - underlines the president of Confagricoltura Torino Tommaso Visca - capable of offering high quality agricultural production, served by an irrigation canal. An aspect that must make us reflect - emphasizes the president of Confagricoltura - is that, in Recently, requests have been increasing in the Metropolitan City of Turin to place plants for the production of biomethane from forsu: it is appropriate to investigate the question thoroughly, to assess the actual need for this type of construction, which does not use agricultural production but urban waste which in all probability should be imported into our territory from other areas ".