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The energy multinationals ENI and SNAM have announced that they have started the capture and storage of carbon dioxide emitted by the Casalboretti power plant, in the municipality of Ravenna.The project plans to capture at least 90% of the CO2 produced by the plant - estimated at around 25,000 tonnes per year – and transport it to the offshore platform Porto Corsini Mare Ovest, and then deposit it in an exhausted gas field at 3,000 meters deep.In a press release, ENI declared that this commitment is "consistent" with its desire to position itself as an "operator that facilitates a fair and balanced energy transition", adding that it is "a fundamental contribution to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050".However, no explanation can be found regarding the most recent scientific evidence, which suggest that the actual impact of this strategy on the climate may be more limited than expected and, therefore, still under discussion. According to the press re...

Almost 38 thousand signatures were collected in two months on the Change.org platform by petition to ask SNAM to divert the route of its methane pipeline which, if built on the planned route, will lead to the destruction of a refuge in which over 60 animals live and a forest of approximately 600 trees.Marta Garaffini and Federico Raspadori, the couple who own the refuge, launched the battle.As a sign of protest, the woman also began a hunger strike, which lasted two weeks.The spouses said they tried to open a discussion with the company, asking them to provide a small deviation of the route.Otherwise, "once the construction site is finished - they said - they will give us back our devastated fields", which they will no longer be able to use for their projects "because the lifetime easement of right of way on that land implies that SNAM, every time it has to make maintenance work, will return to dig and destroy everything”. The mega SNAM Linea Adriatica gas pipeline...