Arcelor Mittal are putting together
a new plan to save jobs while cleaning up ILVA's huge polluting
steel plant at Taranto, Industry and Labour Minister Luigi Di
Maio said Monday.
"It's not a game of football, steel yes, steel no," said Di
Maio, who last week said the government would reject the
existing plan from the Italo-Indian consortium.
ILVA, Europe's biggest steel plant, employs 14,000 people
while its production has been linked to high local cancer rates.
Di Maio said "jobs are at stake, and the health of the
Tarantini and the hinterland is also at stake".
The minister, who is leader of he anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S), said he was poised to sign a review of the
tender process.
He said he would not take "lectures" from "people who laid on
tenders full of faults", referring to former industry minister
Carlo Calenda who has criticised Di Maio for allegedly
threatening the future of steel in Italy on shaky grounds.
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