No possible charge of
"environmental disaster" has so far been mooted in a southern
Italian oil probe that has rocked the government, Potenza
prosecutor Luigi Gay said Wednesday in connection with alleged
pollution from ENI's Centro Oli waste treatment plant at
Viggiano. The probe is one of three centring on long-delayed oil
production in the Basilicata region. In another of the probes,
despite not being placed under investigation, industry minister
Federica Guidi resigned Thursday over an amendment that favoured
her oil-business boyfriend Gianluca Gemelli. Guidi will be
questioned in Potenza Thursday. Premier Matteo Renzi is now
acting as industry minister in an interim capacity. Police are
probing the incidence of tumours around the Basilicata plants of
ENI and Total.
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