They shipped it to the other side of the world. Last night, the Golar Arctic, the ship to be transformed into a regasifier for Sardinia, sailed in the narrow waters of the Panama Canal, between Costa Rica and Colombia. Nine thousand kilometers from the Portoscuso quay, where Snam wanted to let it enter at all costs, despite an inaccessible port, without a useful seabed to tow that giant of the seas. Shipped to the edge of the universe, despite the fact that the state-owned company bought it for the impressive sum of 269 million euros, an unprecedented blow of money, as many as would have been needed to launch a serious energy revival plan for the Island.
Energy drift
A journey without a destination, given that the satellite transponder declares that the ship is headed for the Panama Canal, which means that it could stop in limbo between the Caribbean Sea and the tax haven islands of the Caymans, certainly not en route to Portoscuso. A journey into the unknown that seems to coincide with the shipwreck route that the state has traced for Sardinia, the only region in Europe without gas and without an energy future. An increasingly confused route, with skids that are more suited to a perverse slalom, traced by amateurs in disarray unable to face and resolve strategic and relevant issues. Provided that the objective was not exactly to send Sardinia into an energy drift, under the aegis of strong powers and the complicit silence of institutions at all levels.
The blitz of Arera
Certainly in the next few hours, regulatory authorities and state companies will try in every way to write the final epitaph-obituary for the project to bring gas to Sardinia. The blitz is scheduled for tomorrow, when the deadline that Arera, the Energy Authority, has secretly set for the energy companies to present new plans for Sardinia will expire, all of which will have to be rewritten downwards, even canceling the Golar Arctic, which Snam had bought last year, anticipating the same government decree on the gas plan for the island. Heavy winds are blowing over Sardinia, not only because the Government of Rome continues to ignore the Region, but also because to date there is not the slightest glimmer of the Viale Trento action plan to avert yet another attack on the energy autonomy of the Island. The result obtained by the Regional Attorney at the Council of State, with the overturning of the scandalous sentence of the Lazio TAR on the decree of the President of the Council of Ministers, risks being useless if a serious, clear energy proposal is not put on the table in Rome , defined and authoritative for the future of Sardinia.
