They are in an immense hurry in the Palaces of Rome. The nuclear lords don't want to wait any longer. The radioactive lobbies are unleashed. In the department that deals with filling Sardinia with wind turbines and photovoltaic mirrors, what was once the Ministry of the Environment, they didn't even consider the problem of an unlikely parliamentary revolt against yet another decree that "subsidizes" the renewables and at the same time puts the unique repository of nuclear waste into military hands.
Zero fair play
The rule is not written, especially when the urgency does not exist, however, institutional good grace usually imposes a minimum of fair play: before activating the procedures envisaged by a decree, its conversion into law is awaited. The constitutional canons are clear: the Chambers have sixty days to examine, correct, reject or approve that measure on which the Government has chosen the fastest and theoretically safest path of the parliamentary process.
The countdown starts
Yet, the Ministries didn't think for a moment about triggering the countdown marked by the "Energy Decree" launched last December 9th by the Meloni Government. Without wasting a single moment, just four days after the publication of the decree in the Official Journal, on 13 December, the competent Ministers, Pichetto Fratin, Forza Italia, and Adolfo Urso, Economic Development, Fratelli d'Italia, gave the green light to the republication of the map with the areas which, according to Sogin, the company that manages nuclear waste and the dismantling of old power plants, would be suitable to host the single deposit of radioactive waste.
The double blitz
An act that clumsily ignored all the technical, scientific and institutional findings that should have made Sardinia disappear from that nuclear map. The one launched by the Ministries on December 13th is, in fact, the second publication in the last three years of that nefarious and already widely rejected radioactive chessboard. The first "atomic" gamble, complete with selected areas and municipalities, was carried out by the Conte II Government, with the signatures of two Grillini ministers, Sergio Costa for the Environment and Stefano Patuanelli for Economic Development. In that first list, Sardinia, despite the preliminary and reiterated opposition from the island, was included with 14 municipalities, from Marmilla to Oristano. A real "nuclear" aggression in the heart of the Sardinian hinterland. Now, however, in the Municipalities of Albagiara, Usellus, Assolo, Mandas, Siurgus Donigala, Segariu, Villamar, Setzu, Tuili, Turri, Ussaramanna, Nurri, Ortacesus and Guasila, already indicated by the Conte II Government, and confirmed by the Meloni Government, yes they must also add five other areas, this time military, on which the decree law being examined by parliament focuses. In fact, in the Government provision, an additional procedure has been foreseen to allow the "recruitment" of Municipalities or Regions that aspire, "voluntarily", to "host" that mountain of radioactive waste destined for the single national repository. In the decree, however, with an unprecedented forcing, both on a constitutional and substantial level, failing the most basic institutional "grace", it was foreseen that the Ministry of Defense, in total autonomy, as if there were a military "coup" in place on the nuclear issue, can "candidate" the war ranges to host the radioactive deposit. A "premeditated" act given that there is not a single "volunteer" on the horizon who can invoke the sending of a waste deposit to their land. It is for this reason that the Government's insidious decision to entrust, in fact, tanks and barbed wire the imposition of such a delicate and invasive choice appears, regardless of which site is indicated, a real democratic , suddenly eliminating the powers, prerogatives and functions of territorial government bodies. What emerges in these hours, however, is even more serious. The timing set by the ministerial starter is a race against time, not caring about the approval of the measure by parliament itself. If the terms indicated on the Ministry of the Environment website apply, it means, in fact, that on January 13th the deadlines expired both for the "voluntary" Municipalities but also for the Ministry of Defense which should have respected, as indicated by the decree, the thirty days from the second publication of the sites deemed suitable for "nominating" "the interested military structures".
