Even Nurra , like all of Sardinia, is in the sights of wind multinationals : 68 projects presented, almost all of which fall within the municipal area of Sassari with others scattered in Porto Torres, Ittiri, Stintino, Alghero, Olmedo, Putifigari, Ossi , Codrongianos, Villanova and Uri.
An expected production of 6.03 GW, which exceeds the request made by the national government for the whole of Sardinia by 1 GW .
The Nurra Committee against energy speculation , born in Sassari at the end of January 2024, raises attention to what it defines as a "real plan for energy colonization of the Sardinian territory".
The data collected by the Committee, which acts in synergy with other similar ones created in the rest of the island, speak of 756 requests for new connections for a production of 55.05GW in Sardinia, «ten times higher than the request imposed by the government by 2030 » .
The companies that present such projects, driven by an "obvious speculative purpose" are mainly non-Sardinian companies, often foreign, created ad hoc, with "insignificant share capital and no active employees" . Which, according to the Committee, "should be enough to raise suspicions and concerns about their reliability and responsibility".
Companies that «once the resources have been exploited, will be able to dissolve into thin air without assuming the commitments signed in the contracts, neglecting the maintenance or removal of obsolete systems and leaving the territory and local communities to face the costs and environmental damage ».
In short, "yet another colonial assault by overseas institutions and companies that will deliver the final blow to an already fragile economy and society."
According to the data obtained by the Committee, already today "over 40 thousand hectares of Sardinian territory (many in the Nurra) will be sacrificed to host agricultural and photovoltaic fields, 2,700 on-shore and 1,200 off-shore wind turbines" .
«We demand a fair ecological transition», concludes the Committee, which actively involves local communities «respecting their economic, cultural and landscape peculiarities». «We believe in a new energy approach based on renewable energy communities and collective self-consumption . In a model that sees citizens, together with public administrations, small and medium-sized enterprises, and other entities, come together to form legal entities dedicated to the production and collective self-consumption of renewable energy."
(Unioneonline)