On Wednesday, 7 October 2026, GravinaLife published a press release from the Popular Consultation Committee of Gravina in Puglia about a national repository for radioactive waste. The committee said a recent statement by Mayor Fedele Lagreca had reopened the debate and sat outside the administrative record built up over recent years. It said the mayor's own denial points back to documents of firm opposition from the institutions involved, including the municipality of Gravina. A headline on the same page reports that denial as the mayor saying there was no opening and that Gravina remains opposed.
The committee said the mayor described his remark, in that denial, as an opening to dialogue. It asked whether he meant an opening toward residents who would accept a radioactive-waste repository on the town's land, and it said it hoped that was not the meaning. It added that the town has no committee in favor of siting the national repository there. The community, it said, has more than once rejected a ministry proposal that was put in writing through Sogin's identification of the Zingariello site.
The committee asked the mayor for concrete and unambiguous acts supporting the position the city has stated. Citing an ISPRA guide, it said Gravina's place inside a UNESCO geopark is a reason to exclude the area as a location for a radioactive-waste repository. It said geopark status runs for four years, and that missing the renewal would again make the area a place where a repository could be built. It asked the mayor to press the Alta Murgia Park Authority, in person, to keep working on geopark governance, which it said looks stalled after two years in which the authority has been under a commissioner. The committee said the chance of a siting decision over the city has not yet been removed, and that recent political choices about a return to nuclear power were making that prospect more immediate.
The committee says Gravina could again be treated as a possible site for a national radioactive-waste repository if its UNESCO geopark status is not renewed.
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