Description
In the Agri Valley, Southern Italy, where emissions from Europe’s largest onshore oil facility, operated by Eni, have long gone without independent oversight, this collaboration between the University of Bari and Marea Media will use the Talking Trees methodology to fill this information void. Combining plant biosensing, data science, and investigative journalism, the project will reveal how airborne pollutants from oil extraction alter tree physiology, producing critical new evidence that fills a gap deliberately maintained by Eni’s corporate influence. While local communities face a toxic trade-off between work and health, this investigation will hold public and private actors accountable, asking: who truly bears the cost of Europe’s energy, and what happens when a corporation becomes too big to be held accountable?
“Our goal is to fill the gap in environmental information that has been erased by the corporate power exercised by Eni in its home region of Basilicata, just as Big Oil is doing in many other places around the world.” – Marea Media team
Project Team
Media outlet
Research organisation
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Bari, Italy
https://www.uniba.it/en
Gianlugi De Gennaro
Researcher and Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry, University of Bari
Italy
