If it hadn't been written on page eight of the "demining" plan of the Delta peninsula, one might have thought of a joke. Instead, it's all true. Written and signed by the Ministry of Defence, Sardinia Army Military Command. The heart of the affront is circumscribed in paragraph three, with a more than eloquent title: «Purpose of the Intervention». Pronouncing the fateful phrase "Environmental Reclamation" for the leaders of the Defense is like asking them to gargle with muriatic acid. The title of the document filed with the Regional Department of the Environment, in the midst of a criminal proceeding for an environmental disaster, is encrypted: "Compendium for the removal of exercise residues from the "Delta" Peninsula of Capo Teulada".
Unexploded and forgotten
In other words, translated from the "militarese", it means: theoretical reclamation plan for the "forgotten" "unexploded bombs" in the extreme tip of Sardinia, the most devastated by war games. The premise of the plan is always the same: «the polygon represents an important resource also for the local economy». It is a pity that for the last exercise, the Ministry of Defence, in Sardinia and in Teulada, did not even buy drinking water, which arrived directly from Naples for the occasion. Not to mention the million-dollar jobs entrusted to direct negotiation to two companies arriving directly from Calabria, or the purchase of croissants and bacon in Bologna.
The sewage economy
In Sardinia there is only the disposal of sewage waste, that accumulated by the chemical toilets arrived for the occasion directly from NATO. The reclamation plan, preceded by an imaginative land response, which we mentioned in the previous episode, can be summarized in four lines, those on page eight: «the purpose of the removal of exercise residues is to restore the conditions of the "Delta" firing range to allow normal transit in safety and future use of the same as a target area for shots arriving".
Clean up to pollute
There is no precedent of this kind, not even looking for it with the lantern: in practice the objective of reclamation is to resume polluting and destroying. A sort of perennial license to destroy habitats and landscapes, trampling criminal investigations and community directives, ignoring the decrees that established maximum environmental protection in those same areas. It is not clear who the military authorities want to encircle with surreal environmental salaams, certainly the continuation of the "prince" paragraph of the phantom reclamation is enriched with a further "gem" when they state that "the target area for the arrival of shots will be delimited with material eco friendly".
