(Finance) – The total number of victims due to bad weather Emilia Romagna while the number of displaced people reached 15,000. Furthermore, in the Ravenna area there is a shortage of food and water for displaced persons and farm animals. To make the situation even worse are the weather forecasts which show no signs of improving in the short term: in fact, widespread rainfall is expected in the region for tomorrow and the red alert has been confirmed in the area from Bologna to Rimini.
Meanwhile Arera approved a emergency measure suspending the payment of bills and payment notices for water, waste, electricity and gas (including LPG and other gases distributed through channeled networks) in favor of populations of Emilia-Romagna affected by exceptional meteorological events. The resolution, reads a note, concerns all utilities in the Damaged municipalities by calamitous events since May 1st, with the worsening of the last few days. It will be applied from the date of issue by the competent authorities of the provisions for the identification of the Municipalities involved.
“There Suspension of bill payments is a first emergency measure, in view of any extraordinary measures that will be adopted by the Government in support of the populations affected by floods and floods. New interventions by the Authority may also provide for the introduction of specific regulations on payment by installments, concessions also of a tariff nature and possible derogations from compliance with the obligations set out in the current regulation in favor of the operators affected by the events in question. Finally, the vendors and managers who deliver i public services referred to above will be able to offer further more favorable concessions, in line with the provisions of the Arera resolution”, continues the note.
“It must be planned immediately reconstruction. Who suffered damage the house needs that we repair them together with the State. We give them refunds. Anyone who has had damage tobusiness we need to give him the opportunity to restart and react. Agriculture, which is perhaps the most affected of all sectors, needs 100% reimbursements to restart. We need to get a road and railway system back in motion which is the interface of a region that needs to get back on track and produce”, declared the president of the Emilia Romagna Region, Stefano Bonaccini, at a press conference in Bologna.