Wind farms jeopardize the choice of Sos Enattos as the site that will host the Einstein Telescope.
For this reason, the regional councilor for the Defense of the Environment Marco Porcu launches an appeal to the Government to impose a "even temporary" constraint on the construction of plants up to the designation of the site .
"It is advisable for the Government and the competent Ministries to adopt a provision relating to the Sos Enattos site, imposing a precise, at least temporary, constraint on the construction of wind farms , pending the decision of the European Union on the designation of the site which will host the project" Einstein Telescope', as already foreseen in the competing site of the Limburg region (Netherlands), where an absolute prohibition ordinance has been adopted within a radius of at least 10 kilometers from the affected area ", writes the commissioner in the letter sent to the ministers of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, and University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini.
For Marco Porcu " it is essential to proceed immediately with a precise delimitation of the areas concerned and with the definition of a 'buffer' within which to avoid positioning the wind farms ".
Sardinia, as is known, is a candidate to host the infrastructure on the site located in the Lula area and has «particularly favorable characteristics which could be compromised by the possible construction, in the vicinity, of plants for the production of wind energy , for which the authorization and evaluation procedures have already started and for some of which the Council of Ministers has expressed a favorable judgment of environmental compatibility, against which the Region of Sardinia has lodged an appeal".
ET, underlines the commissioner, is "a new large European observatory for gravitational waves of enormous international importance and would represent for Italy, and in particular for Sardinia, which has the ideal place for the project in the Sos Enattos site, an opportunity to increase one's prestige in the scientific and technological field and to attract large volumes of investments, with foreseeable positive effects also in terms of employment ».
The Einstein Telescope must be built in a geographically stable and sparsely inhabited area, given that the vibrations of the ground (of natural or anthropic origin) can mask the already weak signal generated by the passage of a gravitational wave. And to this end, Sos Enattos is the ideal site , «silent from a seismic and anthropic point of view», as long as it is not compromised by wind farms.
The commissioner closes the letter by recalling that the current government «immediately supported the project with conviction , so much so that on 9 February it set up the Technical-Scientific Committee for Italy's candidacy to host the Einstein Telescope, chaired by the award Nobel Prize for Physics Giorgio Parisi, testifying to the strategic importance attributed to the project».
It would therefore not be explained, it is the implication, why compromise everything by authorizing the construction of wind farms in the area .
(Unioneonline/L)