The large cranes have been on site for a few days. Traffic is still rare, waiting for the sunny season now upon us. The proscenium is that of Monte Nieddu, a link between the hinterland and the Capitana inlet, in the large Gulf of Angels. The countryside is that of Separassiu, in the Quartucciu countryside, in the metropolitan area of Cagliari. To reach those bulldozers that level without respite close to the new state road 554, the one that connects the Cagliari area with Villasimius, you have to risk a journey without tom-toms. The roads are there, white and ruinous, but they can't be seen on the maps. They also built the flyover to connect the two agricultural banks separated by the highway. As time passed, however, they must have forgotten to test it: it has always been closed.
Electrochemical expanse
On this road front, among the ruins of abandoned agro-pastoral companies and villas between the sea and the mountains, it is impossible not to notice what has been happening for days in total silence. A coming and going of heavy vehicles, escorted and unescorted trucks, with flying mechanical arms that transfer green containers suspended in the air and then placed in that "electrochemical" expanse that unknown gentlemen from far away have decided to place close to Sant'Isidoro and Niu Crobu. Where once upon a time there were vineyards and pastures, now it is the time of the Chinese invasion on Sardinian land. Despite all the contrary opinions, the fiery municipal councils, the protests expressed loudly, the construction of the largest electrochemical battery in Sardinia, probably one of the largest in Europe, has begun in that area. They don't care in the Palaces of Rome. With a "military" decree they ruled: occupy that area and build a 180 megawatt storage battery, the most impressive concentration of lithium ever allowed by the former Ministry of the Environment, now committed to violating it by virtue of the elusive " Energy Security”.
Colonial coup
The decree of the Director General of that Dicastery of Rome which authorizes this strategic and environmental massacre was also published in the Official Journal, but no one has ever challenged it. Now, the work start sign, hidden by the only olive tree saved from the progress of the bulldozers, communicates the crime: the construction of a Bess ( plant with a nominal power of 180 megawatts. End of work April 2025, complete with companies coming from far away, except for a minute citation for yet another humiliating sub-contract "reserved" for a Sardinian company. No Environmental Impact Assessment, as befits a colonial "coup" in Sardinia. Draghi & company had also foreseen in the famous decrees of "militarization" of energy speculation in Sardinia to give the green light to this "insular" drop of batteries without any environmental procedure. After all, what did he care if, close to hundreds of homes, in a notoriously agricultural area, an infinite expanse of lithium had been created, planned by a cheap company? Nothing, exactly.
