Holidays in Sulcis? Wind Jungle Tour

Seventy floors of steel

Not simply wind turbines, but seventy-story steel skyscrapers planted on the ridges of those mountains, six hundred meters above sea level and another 200 of "fan" paid for by state incentives. A proscenium scanned far and wide with lots of archaeological, naturalistic and cultural maps. Despite everything, however, the wind turbines there, no less than 9, one for each peak, close to S'Ortu Mannu, want to drive them in at any cost. When the Norwegians arrived in Sulcis they even forgot their good manners.

Shoes out

To enter their home, they have always been accustomed to leaving their shoes outside the door. In Sardinia, on the other hand, in Villamassargia and Narcao, Iglesiente and Basso Sulcis, they entered by kicking down the door, using iron shoes, the ones that leave their mark. They didn't tell anyone about it, they took a pen and map, took a look at the wind atlas and positioned those cyclopean blades in the middle of the environmental amphitheater of the mining land. The result is represented with digital "renderings", photo-simulations. The steel skyscrapers are seen from any angle.

Illusion factory

But they, the Norwegians, do not lose heart and in order to sell their wind factory and millionaire incentives they try to do what is done in poor lands in the world, buy land and sell illusions. They do it without any hesitation, as if the nose ring were at home in Sardinia.

Wind holidays

They say in the project filed with the Ministry: «The proximity of the wind farm to the Santa Barbara Mining Path offers the opportunity to plan and build a further stage of the hiking route that would wind inside the wind farm. The hypothesized hiking route could also activate a virtuous circle of exploitation and re-appropriation of these territories by the local communities, giving them the opportunity and opportunity to take advantage of areas that are currently unused and not enjoyed; activation of a significant tourist potential". The "tourist" arguments are a constant, all linked to the "advantages" that the Sardinians would have. Everyone in and around Villamassargia was waiting for the "virtuous circle" of Norwegian memory to reappropriate unused and unused areas. In short, to enjoy them, according to these gentlemen, it is necessary to pierce them with wind turbines from a height of 206 meters, making those territories a tourist attraction. An idea of territorial valorisation that is certainly original, but devoid of any credibility. In short, a joke in a Norwegian sauce.

Windshow

However, despite the fact that wind tourism appears to most as a freak show of illusions, they believe in it and relaunch: «It is now known that a new form of tourism is spreading throughout Europe in which precisely these highly engineered works are they are revealing modern attractive elements that allow the fruition of places outside the most common tourist circuits». In short, tourists from northern Europe, after having bled to come to Sardinia, according to these "enlightened" proponents of alternative tourism, instead of going to visit the great Nuragic civilization, the Giants of Mont'e Prama, the Reggia di Barumini or that of Santu Antine, rather than Su Gorroppu in the Gennargentu or the Sacred Well of Santa Cristina, set off between the ridges of the island to "caress" up close the "beautiful" and "exciting" wind turbines, the same ones that devastate the landscape and environment.

“Gift” for bicycles

The plan presented to the Ministry looks like a wind tourism festival with a "disproportionate" gift to the users of the "park" the free electric charging of bicycles. It would seem like a joke, but it is not. The Norwegians put it in black and white: «The construction and maintenance of the roads serving the park would make the area usable by local communities and tourists. The main road network could give access to a secondary network of trails to be explored on foot, by bicycle or on horseback. A dedicated and free charging station for electric bikes could be installed”.

Corn & petrol

In short, everything and more, with the only "electric" gift that Sardinia would have, free electricity for bicycles. The challenge "launched" by the Norwegians was not taken up by the Saras oil companies. It would have seemed excessive to propose a little fodder for the horses, or a petrol voucher for the tractors that sow "wind". They, the Morattis, are known to go for the concrete. In their action plan, they explain the strategy with the tact of oil prospectors in the promised land and the audacity of someone who can spot the contractor right away. To pierce the five gigantic shovels into the heart of the mountains between Villamassargia and Basso Sulcis, the planned actions are divided into three moves.

«private» mission

The first is the most eloquent: "involving the greatest number of private citizens in the project". Of course, everyone can also give this statement the "democratic" value of maximum citizen involvement, but there are also those who have another idea, perhaps thinking of the money to be given to landowners ready to open the doors of own home in “His Highness” Saras. Of course, as a first point, the Morattis did not set themselves the problem of involving Municipalities and local communities, but preferred to aim directly "at the greatest number of private citizens", as if the landscape, the environment, nature, the devastation environment were a private good and not, on the other hand, a collective one, and as such non-transferable, non-attackable, non-commercializable.

Power to earn

The second point of the oil strategy for finding wind is one of those statements studied in the academy of "saying one thing to do another". In this case, the goal is entirely technological: «to use the latest generation technologies that best adapt to the needs of the chosen site». In reality, this forecast hides a less explicit one, that of using the most advanced technologies certainly not for the needs of the site, but those of the portfolio. Even the Norwegians know it, let alone the serial grinders of public contributions, from Cip6 to the essentiality of Sarlux: the more powerful the shovels are, the more the state incentive meters turn.

S'Ortu Mannu scar

The third commandment of Saras in the land of olive trees is suggested by someone who knows the sensitivity of the area. The designers of the oil companies write: "Pay extreme attention to S'Ortu Mannu, an identity site for the Municipality of Villamassargia, limiting the visual impact from this place". It is the verb “to contain” that leaves no way out for the truth: those wind turbines devastate S'Ortu Mannu. It is enough to see the photo-simulation of the first shovel of the Saras project in the “Astia” area to understand that that two-hundred-metre steel skyscraper stands out right next to “Sa Reina”, the oldest olive tree in the park. However, they, the lords of Saras, turn to "the greatest number of private citizens", forgetting that that landscape belongs to everyone, not to a few "lucky" sellers of a collective heritage.