The Lazio regional administrative
court has rejected an appeal by the Tuscan coastal city of
Piombino against the decision to install a regasifier in the
port, the municipal authorities said on Tuesday.
The court also ordered the municipality to pay 90,000 euro to
cover the legal costs.
"It is a punitive sentence against a municipality that is guilty
only of defending its city," said Mayor Francesco Ferrari,
adding that the instruction to pay legal costs is "absolutely
unjustified".
The dispute concerns the installation last March of the Golar
Tundra storage and
regasification ship at the port of Piombino as part of Italy's
effort to reduce its reliance on Russian gas following Moscow's
invasion of Ukraine.
The ship has the capacity to transform around five billion cubic
metres of gas a year and is due to remain at Piombino for three
years.
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