In the end it turned out to be a "patch" worse than the "hole". Immediately after the Unified Conference that "acclaimed" the agreement on the elusive and insidious "suitable areas" they told it with microphones turned on, as if it were happy news. in reality it was an announcement that has no precedent in the history of the Island: we are ready to sacrifice the Sardinian sea with blows of three hundred meter wind turbines, stuck in front of the most enchanting scenarios of the Sardinian coasts. Who cares if Mayors, committees , fishermen, people of common sense, Port Authorities and expert navigators have loudly rejected without appeal that devastating plan to place around the island as many as 1200 wind turbines as tall as the Eiffel Tower.
From Draghi's dream
Moreover, governments, starting with Draghi, had been trying for some time to stick some steel skyscrapers into the Sardinian sea, partly to "dispense" incentives to lovers of offshore wind, and on the other to satisfy the greedy appetites of large multinational lobbies, from Italian to foreign ones. The operation was "sold" as a great achievement for the island, but the facts tell a completely different story. The background: the Government, the Meloni one, in the latest draft of the decree on "suitable areas", had planned to deduct 40% of the electrical power of offshore plants from the minimum power quotas assigned to the Regions with the table reported in the article two of the "suitable areas". In practice, if a 900 megawatt offshore plant devastates the Gulf of Angels, in front of Nora, or the Iglesias Coast, in front of the Pan di Zucchero towards Carloforte, with 60/80 blades, the advantage for the Island would be to "discount ” those 900 megawatts from the 6,200 imposed on the Sardinian Region. A real madness given that with the "deduction" mechanism the Region, by accepting the Decree, thanks to the agreement expressed last Friday in the Unified Conference, has chosen to "devastate" a landscape asset, whether terrestrial or marine. . An admission declared without too many preambles, as if it were a wise decision.
Open gates
With that passage, however, a gap was reopened that seemed to have been closed by the technical opinions expressed on all the offshore projects presented on the Sardinian coast. Disarming declarations from the representatives of the regional executive who openly spoke of a "fair" compensation in exchange for the construction of wind farms at sea, in front of the most evocative stretches of coast in Sardinia. Sacrificing pieces of sea, horizons and marine landscapes, for a mere compensation on a "falsified" and clearly discriminatory and unfair figure, is probably the "result" that more than others can indelibly mark the political and subjective responsibilities on this passage decisive for the future of the Island. The agreement, therefore, effectively represents a clear acceptance of the "exchange" which takes place precisely at the moment in which the European Commission itself formally referred Italy to the Court of Justice for not having correctly transposed the directive on spatial planning maritime in relation to offshore wind. A very heavy decision by Brussels which makes it clear how "risky" it was to give the green light to that sea-land "exchange" in the Decree on "suitable areas", given that there are no rules on offshore wind power and above all, on the projects presented in Sardinia, very heavy unknowns loom large, starting from the environmental and landscape impact on the coasts. A similar complaint about the lack of maritime planning had already been expressed for some time, in no uncertain terms, by the leaders of the Capitaneria of Cagliari, who had denounced the overlap of an avalanche of projects, among the most disparate, positioned in bodies of water taken attacked by wind speculators without hesitation. The question, therefore, is obligatory: why did the Government and the Regions, with Sardinia playing a main role, choose to negotiate suitable land areas with marine bodies of water? In fact, it is yet another "Trojan horse" based on a decree substantially unrelated to the regulation of offshore wind power with the aim of "covering" the new front, that of marine assault, with the agreement-understanding of the Unified conference, even if, in reality, the match is limited only to Sardinia, Sicily and Puglia. The Government, with this "apparent" concession, has obtained two results: it has made Sardinia accept a very high minimum threshold of "renewable" power (6,200 megawatts) and at the same time it has "given" it the possibility of destroying its coasts with blows of offshore wind turbines. One fact is certain, the ones who will celebrate this "halter agreement" will certainly not be the bluefin tuna fishermen of Carloforte, the tourist and commercial boats of the Pula coast or the lovers of the southern coasts of the island. Even the tourists of the Costa Smeralda or those of the Coral Riviera, those of S'Archittu or Teulada will not have anything to rejoice about.
No party
The Sardinians who love their land and their sea will certainly not be able to rejoice. The Island is surrounded by projects, all at an advanced stage of Environmental Impact Assessment. The requests for electrical connection for offshore wind power submitted to Terna, the state's electricity arm, concern the beauty of 1,200 blades with a minimum height of 300 meters up to an estimated maximum of 380. Monsters of steel in front of the most disparate compendiums of Sardinian coasts, a massacre that will corrode our conscience for eternity. The 100% discount, inserted as if nothing had happened in article two of the Decree on "suitable areas", does not in fact constitute in any way a limit to the devastation of the sea, but is simply the "passepartout" to open the doors of the coasts of the Island. On the doorstep of the Sardinian sea there have long been the giants of world finance who can't wait for anything else. Yes, they have something to celebrate. For the first time, since they set their bow on Sardinia, they glimpse shovels and a lot of money, that coming from luxuriant state incentives, yet to be defined due to the disfigurement at sea. But who are the contenders in this "wind-marine" match which has sensationally reopened thanks to this "agreement"?
Eni & JP Morgan
Two above all: Eni, the multinational oil and power company, and JP Morgan, the most important investment bank in the United States of America. They are the most powerful, the most well-connected, the most cunning, those who never have to knock to enter the halls of power in Brussels, Rome and Cagliari. They didn't do it even when they decided to break into the Costa Smeralda, in the Gulf of Angels, in front of the Forte Village and the remains of Nora. Eni, which entered the offshore wind game in its own way, on tiptoe, with spiked shoes, bought a cheap company, Ichnusa Wind srl, to put in many zeros and a lot of power to make it become "realistic" is that unrealistic project intended to "pest" the sea around the island of Carloforte, that of San Pietro, with wind turbines. JP Morgan, so as not to disfigure himself, did not wear "pointe shoes". When he decided to oust poor and useless members, he did it with the elegance of a United States Corps Marine, without too much salami. After having literally excavated the slopes of Monte Arcosu to lay out hundreds of hectares of Chinese solar panels, he is now focusing on Nora one, Nora two and Tibula, between Olbia and Siniscola. Three wind farms to be placed on the west coast of the island, one in the north and two in the south. They, the state oilmen and financiers of the States, are ready for the assault.
