Industry Minister Carlo Calenda said
Wednesday work on the Puglia section of the TransAdriatic
Pipeline (TAP) should go ahead and not be "threatened by further
delays" caused by protests against olive-tree removals. The
pipeline's arrival at Melendugno had been approved after "the
most careful assessment of the alternatives," he said. Work has
been held up recently by protests against the removal of olive
trees, even though they will later be replanted in the same
place. Also Wednesday the Constitutional Court annulled a Puglia
region order linked to the xylella virus which the government
said threatened the TAP construction. The TAP is set to bring
Caspian gas from Azerbaijan to Europe.
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