Youth Socialist Forum oppose waste import

The young Socialists demanded the Albanian President to not decree the law.

The law was passed last month, only with the votes of the majority. The Socialist Party opposed the law, saying that it will turn Albania in a rubbish bin.

The Socialist MP, Arben Malaj addressed to the Majority by saying that with the law that has been proposed by them, every Albanian investor has the right to build a large plant and say to the government after six months that they don’t have anymore capacity, because the maximal capacity of the Albanian waste materials is known in theory.

“You will incite investments in this industry, which will not be based on cleaning the Albanian environment, but will focus on the waste management business”, Malaj declared.

In his speech, the Socialist MP Taulant Balla declared that the draft law has been ordered by mafia interests from other countries that want to build such implants in Albania for burying their waste materials.

“According to the ‘Scoria’ project, the second volume planned by the Regional Agency for Preventing Pollution and Protecting Environment, centered in Puglia, Albania needs more implants not for its own waste materials, but for those of Europe. The report, after consulting the plans with the Albanian government, mentions that these big companies will be the ones to build the waste processing plants. The cities chosen are Vlora, Elbasani, Berati and Gjirokaster, with a total value of 120 million EUR”, Balla declared.

According to him, the Wikileaks data show among other things what the US Consul in Napoli has written:

“Camorra and Ndranghetta have set their eyes over Albania for the waste management business, because there is being approved a law for processing inert materials and the Albanian government is opening its doors to this project.”

“The Consul advises the US State Department to take measures and inform the Albanian government to avoid this danger that threatens them from the two biggest Italian mafia organizations”, Balla declared.

The law for managing the waste materials has a cost of 132 million EUR, part of which will be used for constructing the landfills.

“This law provides the import of waste materials only for recycling them and prevents the importation of dangerous waste materials,” declared the Director of Policies at the Environment Ministry, Pellumb Abeshi.

Environment experts opposed the law for environment management, declaring that it cannot be implemented on terrain.

By the end of the month, MP Erjon Brace, launched a series of accusations on Top Channel’s program “Top Story”, where were present analysts of the Albanian press.

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