Italia Nostra Sardegna denounces the Italian Government before the European Commission: « In the application of the Red directives on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources, it has violated numerous directives, regulations and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU itself», the environmentalists claim.
According to the prosecution, the national executive, in addition to "not having taken into account the policies relating to the participation of the people affected by the projects and in particular the local population, favors energy speculation by instrumentally delaying territorial planning and incentivizing the installation of large production plants to the detriment of Renewable Energy Communities and self-consumers. As has been happening for years in Sardinia and in the central-southern regions of Italy".
Also in the crosshairs is the much debated regulation on the (alleged) suitable areas for the construction of Fer plants. For Italia Nostra and its president Graziano Bullegas «it does not comply with the provisions of the European directives that provide as a priority for installation on artificial and built surfaces , in transport infrastructures, in car parks, in waste disposal sites and in industrial ones». While the delays in applying the regulation (about 1,000 days compared to the 180 expected) «are allowing the obligation to subject the plan of suitable areas to a Strategic Environmental Assessment to be circumvented».
The Draghi decree also reportedly disregarded the regulation establishing the Recovery and Resilience Device, the so-called “Taxonomy Regulation”, «which provides for the financing of only those works that respect the principle of not causing any significant damage to the environment». The executive's provision, according to Italia Nostra, «finances the infrastructure for the methane gasification of Sardinia. A work aimed at the consumption of a highly climate-altering fossil fuel that is extremely harmful to the environment and health».
Last but not least, «Italian law actually encourages speculation in the context of activities relating to the establishment of industrial plants for the production of electricity from renewable sources, repeatedly disregarding art. 41 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which provides for the right of every individual to be heard before an individual measure is adopted against him or her that would cause him or her harm».
With the complaint, Italia Nostra Sardegna reaffirms "its commitment to a fair and sustainable energy transition for the territories and the communities that inhabit them and continues its battle against speculation in renewables, alongside citizens and those who fight to defend agricultural and maritime activities, the territory, the sea and the landscape of Sardinia".
(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)
