Bills skyrocketing, the Draghi government is betting everything on gas
The extractions are ready to restart. The government focuses on gas to try to overcome the energy crisis and calm the expensive bills that afflict Italians. Also because the international geopolitical situation does not help to have good prospects with excessive dependence on the outside. “Coping with price increases on the markets is impossible for anyone. More: the crisis with Moscow forces the Union to shoot itself in the foot, threatening to stop the new pipeline Nord Stream 2 that unites Russia to Europe without going through the Ukrainian borders“writes the Press.
The solution? La Stampa always explains it, according to which the Draghi government, “among the many palliatives to the increase in costs, now he wants to go back to the old, doubling the national production of gas to at least eight billion cubic meters a year. To take charge of the inevitable is Roberto Cingolani, the minister wanted and disowned by the Five Star world. Among environmental discontent, last September he forced his technicians to update a plan unknown to most: it is called the Plan for the sustainable energy transition of suitable areas (Pitesai). Behind the horrible acronym and among 213 pages of technicalities is the photograph of what you can do or not do in the Italian seas. The operation is neither simple nor quick, but if started it can help bring down prices in a stable manner “, writes La Stampa.
The map of gas extraction in Italy
The Turin newspaper also draws a map of mining activities: “Today the gas fields are concentrated along the territorial seas between Veneto and Abruzzo. A few drills can be seen off the coast of Gela, but under the seabed of the Upper Adriatic and in the Sicilian channel there are many deposits that have been abandoned in the last twenty years. Contacts between the government and Eni to reach an agreement have been going on since Christmas. To double the production it takes at least two years, a very long time compared to the emergency of these days. But the plan of Draghi and Cingolani has a possible and rapid consequence: the counterpart asked of Eni to grant more extractions is to limit the price of national gas “.
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