Environmental impact assessment of mining activities in the productive system of Basilicata region

In the latest years, oil extraction activities in Basilicata Region grew up rapidly, covering about the 80% of the whole regional area. These activities represent a significant part of the productive system and may have a considerable impact on the territory (ENI [1]), both in term of landscape and of public health. In the framework of a Regional Plan for Air Quality Protection and Recovery (V.Cuomo et al. [2]), it is therefore necessary to evaluate the pollutant emissions due to the two main extractive activities, gas and oil mining, and their operative phases (oil well preparation, production sampling, crude oil transportation and stabilisation, infrastructures building) (C.Cosmi et al. [3]). The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) methodology was utilised to combine the available information and to characterise the environmental impacts related to each phase of the activities. Furthermore, SEA was integrated with Advanced Local Energy Planning -ALEP- methodology (C.Cosmi et ai. [4]) to consider oil mining activities in the framework of the whole productive system.