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With a provision published a few days before the elections, the Meloni government has allocated another 230 million euros of public funds (after 200 last year) for the benefit of new ski lifts and artificial snow systems for ski slopes.The decision not only contrasts with what has been reported for many years by committees and mountain communities which denounce how mass skiing is harmful to the territories from a social and environmental point of view, but also with what was recently put in black and white by the Bank of Italy in 2022 which, in a report, explained how artificial snow (and the practice of alpine skiing) are no longer economically sustainable due to the ever decreasing presence of snowfall due to overheating.Furthermore, artificial snow causes great water consumption and pollution of the territories due to the chemical substances used in the production of synthetic snow, and is therefore particularly impacting on an environmental level. THE'announcement of the Ministry...

It is decided:in Piedmont water will be taken from the Sesia river and then pumped upstream to generate artificial snow for mass skiing.A project that it is not risky to define as crazy, especially considering that the Sesia is among the first waterways to have suffered the consequences of a drought that now chronically grips the North.The water from the ailing river, among other things, will also have to serve a stretch of slopes located just 707 meters above sea level, where snow is scarce regardless, let alone in the current context of global warming.All this will happen thanks to a new project nearing completion and financed by the Piedmont Region for 2.5 million euros.The same council, and the related municipalities, which in February 2023 imposed limits on water consumption on their citizens due to a water shortage which caused the Sesia to lose 80% of its capacity.Nonetheless, full speed ahead.«The ongoing intervention – announced the company that manages the plants...

Work has begun on laying the pipes to pump water from Lake Bianco in the Brescia area turn it into artificial snow.The ski resorts of Santa Caterina Valfurva and surrounding areas will benefit from the controversial work and, like many others, are suffering the impacts of global warming.However, in the current climate and environmental context, resorting to artificial snow appears absurd, and it is no coincidence that it was soon denounced by environmentalist associations.Lake Bianco, among other things, it is located in a state nature reserve where there is the only example of arctic tundra in Italy.The associations active in the area have thus sent a warning to the institutions contesting various offenses in the works, such as excavation methods that could contaminate the water that flows downstream.However, the risk of defacing a body of water located within a National Park should be enough to stop the interventions.Indeed, this circumstance should not even have made them leave. L...