It would make it difficult to intervene from the air in case of fires, and in that area the risk is high. It would rub the landscape characterized by the forest. The roads to be built, or widened, to transport the materials would be incompatible with the characteristics of the area. Does not comply with regional legislation on the identification of sites for renewable energy sources.
Late, but the papers from the regional bodies have arrived that oppose the construction of the gigantic wind farm that the company Ecowind 2 Srl (formed by Econergy Group ltd and Queequeg Enterprises ltd) wants to build in Bruncu de Lianu, in the Maracalagonis area: 14 towers 220 meters high which, according to the papers filed by the proposing Srl, would be visible from the entire Gulf of Cagliari. Wind towers on the beaches of Cagliari.
The procedure with the request for authorization is pending with the Ministry of Ecological Transition. The deadline for submitting observations expired on 4 April. But late ones have also been accepted. And the Region has moved all the offices concerned.
The list of complaints is long, with many technical details. Among the documents deposited by the General Directorate of the Forestry Corps, we read that «the presence of wind turbines of such large dimensions, arranged along the ridge line, both hinders and hinders the action of aerial vehicles in fire-fighting function, with evident delays in action to extinguish the flames and, therefore, with an increase in the wooded area potentially destroyed by the flames, with a subsequent accentuation of the risk of erosion on the soil due to the massive loss of forest cover". And that area, according to the Forest Service, "has an overall high fire hazard and risk index".
Director Alessandro Pusceddu writes from the Urban planning service of the Department of Local Authorities: the intervention causes «a substantial impact on the environmental landscape, both on the areas directly affected by the intervention (it is noted that there are 14 pitches each having an area equal to to 1,500 square meters in wooded areas and Mediterranean scrub), and in the neighboring areas». Furthermore , "the total height of each wind turbine, equal to 220 metres, is visible from a large part of the coast and from the entire area of the Sette Fratelli complex". The project is also "in contrast with the regulatory provisions on the subject as it insists on areas declared unsuitable".
Turbines and towers would be gigantic. It is therefore underlined that "the morphological characteristics of the area, together with the need to guarantee access to massive mechanical means for carrying out the works, necessarily determines a significant change to the state of the places and to the viability, with the widening of the roadways existing ones, the construction of new routes, the insertion of clearings and maneuvering areas, the execution of earthworks».
The decision is in the field at the ministry now. Sardinia, through its technicians, has expressed itself: that wind farm above Baccu Mandara must not be authorized.