Fires and shovels, the damage and the mockery: after the fires, grazing is prohibited, wind power is not

Is there a "strategy of environmental degradation" behind the fires that are affecting the Island? A conspiracy that leads to the sale and depreciation of the territory, making any development project linked to the riches of the Island irreconcilable? What should a farmer who sees himself unable to use that land affected by the flames for ten years, finding himself with mortgages to pay and community obligations to comply with. The choice is almost obligatory: sell, or rather sell off. The combination of fires and energy speculation is, for now, a chapter still to be written.

But the risk of the union between the two interests is written in the national framework law on forest fires, which states that in the areas affected by flames "grazing and hunting are prohibited", but there is a shadow exemption on which many are studying: "the construction of public works necessary to safeguard public safety and the environment is still permitted" .

The risk, in short, is that flocks and herds will be prohibited from grazing, while, in those lands burnt by flames, for the "supreme" good of an elusive public environmental interest, the affairs of the lords of the wind and the wind can "graze". Sun . To add insult to injury.

Fortunately, "Sa Serra" is a case in itself, where the fire devastated almost a thousand hectares of territory. Two wind power projects already exist there, but they will not have an easy life because the Barbagia capital is among those included in the protection area dedicated to Lula's Einstein Telescope , where wind power plants have been declared prohibited.