«After a year of negotiations, an agreement has been reached between Rome, Vienna and Berlin for the development of SoutH2, the hydrogen corridor which will see the construction of a new gas pipeline, and the technologically renewed Italian network, to transport the clean energy source of the future from North Africa to our country up to Central Europe. However, we learn of Sardinia's exclusion from this great energy plan."
The complaint comes from the Sardinian senator of the Democratic Party, Marco Meloni, who explains: «The project envisages that the renewable hydrogen is produced in North Africa, lands in Sicily via the new gas pipeline and then distributed to the rest of Italy and reaches in Austria and Germany. A decision that represents a hard blow for our island."
Having suffered for 70 years from the lack of a fundamental energy source for development such as methane, also behind the regions of Southern Italy, «in recent years Sardinia has witnessed promises of the construction of transport infrastructures for this gas, but ready for the use of hydrogen. With the SoutH2 agreement with the very serious exclusion of Sardinia, we can say that the island is out of all the maps of the Mattei Plan, the modification of which we will challenge the Government in the next few weeks".
Meloni announces that the executive will be asked «to explain the reasons for its decision to cut Sardinia out of the project and to illustrate what alternative plans are on the table to ensure that the island does not fall behind in the energy transition process», continues the dem senator. «It is unacceptable that a region with so much potential is attacked by those who want to speculate on renewable sources, with initiatives with a high impact on the landscape and territorial identity, in the indifference of the national government, and then is put aside during the definition of programs of true technological innovation in the energy field, of European significance and of an important relationship with Africa, such as SouthH2".
(Unioneonline)
