In the end, nothing will come of it. The hydrogen will arrive in Sicily, and then reach – through the Peninsula – the Old Continent. Sardinia will be cut off even though, for once, the infrastructure was there, already set up like a party dress: the Galsi. Now, of that betrayed project, which could have transported 2 billion in gas per year from Algeria to the Island (out of a total of ten), only a few numbers remain to outline records that could have been and will not be.

The statements of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, two years ago after the Algiers agreement, had given rise to illusions about the rebirth of the Galsi, which at 2,885 meters deep would have been the deepest gas pipeline in the world. But the finalization of the South2 agreement between the governments of Italy and Algeria knocks Sardinia off the tower to the advantage of Sicily. And politics is struggling to find responsibilities.