More energy speculation, two more insults to Sardinia. In Ottana a mega photovoltaic project and in Villanova Monteleone two-hundred-meter wind turbines.
Two different stories, with the devastation of the territory in common. A stretch of silicon of hundreds of hectares that, without interruption, will unite the town of Bolotana to that of Ottana. In Villanova Monteleone 11 wind turbines by the Germans of Rwe Renewable aim to deface the landscape between nuraghi, domus de janas and – a naturalistic aspect not to be underestimated – the largest colony of Sardinian Griffon Vultures a few kilometers away.
The protest
The alarm is raised by the Presidio of the Sardinian people. Between Bolotana and Ottana there is a plan by the Roman company Acea, "which would have taken a thirty-year lease for 42.8 million of the lands of the plain, sold by the Nuoro industrial consortium to a private individual for one hundred thousand euros, at one twentieth of their agricultural value". In Villanova Monteleone, however, the nullity of the regional provisions is certified: "The moratorium of July and the law on suitable areas of December have lapsed", informs Davide Fadda, spokesperson for the Presidio. "Here, the authorization of the Council of Ministers had already arrived in 2023, despite the strongly contrary opinion of the Superintendency and the Ministry of Culture who had highlighted the presence of hundreds of archaeological and monumental sites on which the project would interfere".
The Sardinian law
It was well known that regional law 20/2024 was unconstitutional. "But the damage is already done." With the order of June 4, 2025, the Sardinian Regional Administrative Court suspended the effectiveness of law 20 and transmitted the documents to the Constitutional Court.
The solution
For the Network, this situation was clear from the beginning: jurists, committees, associations had warned that law 20 would never survive a constitutional review. "Unfortunately we pay the price of improvisation", comments Michele Zuddas, a lawyer, close to the Pratobello 24 Network from the beginning. "We need a strong, well-founded law that does not collapse at the first appeal and that already exists: it is called Pratobello 24 and only needs to be approved by the Council".
