Nobody will be able to say that they got lost in chatter. The military cable is as concise as a signorsì punctuated with a lot of overseas military acronyms. In the missive marked by the Ministry of Defense, sent to the counterpart of the Infrastructures in the Roman Porta Pia, there are more degrees of officers and stars than words. The gift of synthesis is a surface-to-air missile that leaves no way out: you can drive wind turbines into the open sea. The State Generals, in this strip of land, tortured for at least 70 years, have never felt like guests. The approach, yesterday as today, is that of the hosts, who are allowed everything, without asking permission.
Tanks
With the delicate gait of those used to disembarking with tanks and amphibians on the most exclusive beaches of the forbidden coast of Teulada, the leaders of the Ministry of Defense did not let themselves be begged. When the Vessel Captain, Mario Valente, Commander of the Port Authority of Cagliari, issued the notice of publication of the project for a wind invasion at sea, in front of Capo Teulada, a missile shot from the forbidden peninsula, the military leaders answered with the phlegm of the tick of the heels in front of a higher order. After all, the war area, on land and sea, was theoretically safe. The Repower Swiss had seen fit not to interfere directly with military constraints on the coast.
70 years of bonds
To place those skyscrapers, almost 300 meters high, in the middle of the sea of Teulada, it was necessary to stay out of that immense expanse of turquoise waters, already seized by the military in the early 1950s, complete with patrol boats intent on "driving out ”As enemies, tourists and boats, swimmers and fishermen, to the sound of megaphones shouting the superior provisions that prohibit mooring, bathing and fishing in most of the water mirror in front of Cala Zafferano, Cala Brigantina or Porto Scudo. The military offshoot perpetually imposed in the middle of the sea was not enough. Just nine miles from that constraint, the lords of the wind, in Swiss sauce, have seen fit to place, for now on paper, a wind farm with 33 wind turbines.
The Red Island
An expanse of wind turbines capable of segregating more and more the activities of the area, starting from fishing and increasingly forbidding that exclusive oasis of open sea in front of the Red Island. The same that gave its name to one of the most rigorous European plans for the protection of the environmental habitat of this territory, as forbidden to the walk of "humans" as it is granted with impunity to the warmongering violence of tanks and howitzers of all kinds.
Tease out
The lords of arms and the wind in this story are an unprecedented trait d'union . The first, the generals, are very happy that that area is less and less a tourist attraction, for not having in the middle of the sea "pain in the ass" with sailboats and rafts, yachts and life jackets, fins and snorkels, the second, the Mistral seekers rejoice at the idea of sharing the prohibitions with a lot of Navy and State Army. The opinion deposited in the maze of the Port Authority of Cagliari, which we publish in full, with which the Sardinia Army Command, under the order of none other than the Chief of Staff, gives the green light to the Repower project is no different. More than an opinion it is an epitaph, so concise as to induce an internal disposition aimed at sparing words, as if the "obituary" were for a fee.
No frills
The military leaders, under the aegis of the «Logistics, Polygons and Military Servitude Section», renounce the frills: «This Command, having acquired the opinion of the technical bodies, issues a favorable opinion of the Armed Force for the realization of the work in question». In short, masters in the home of others. Favorable opinion, as if the fishermen of the area did not exist, after having annihilated them with bans and fines, as if the open sea here were to remain eternally closed and precluded. They weren't even wasted on arguments. To the state order to proceed, without posing any problem, they responded with a rigorous sir . They were so careful in preparing the favorable opinion that they even indicated that of Sarroch as the municipality of competence, which has servitude, but oil.
Welcome shovels
If the Army opens its arms as a sign of welcome to the new occupants of the Sardinian sea, the Navy is no exception. The new defense opinion is entrusted to the Hydrographic Institute of the Navy, the body dedicated to monitoring what happens in the waters surrounding the peninsula. The statements that put pen to paper should lead to more than one perplexity, in reality, even in this case, everything is fine. Yet at the back of the note they write that "the area intended for the installation of the 33 wind turbines of the wind farm is crossed by two electric cables, one of which is in use, the route of the submarine power line that connects the offshore substation to the ground junction point it is located at a minimum distance of 1 km from the T811 exercise area and in the last section of the submarine power line, the cable before reaching the ground, crosses an anchorage area in the Echo Zone ». There is no need to worry, the Navy Institute is loyal to the provisions: we must not create problems.
Come on, there is room
For this reason, the opinion in the documents of the procedure of the Swiss project is yet another Signorsì marked by a disarming recommendation: "The Hydrographic Institute of the Navy expresses its consent, to the extent of its competence, subject to compliance with the following: once once the laying works are finished or whenever significant parts of the plant are installed, in order to update the official State Documentation and the official State database, it is required to send the layout of the elements of the same (cables, wind turbines , anchoring elements, etc.) '. In short, do what you want but let us know where you do it, at least we put it in the nautical charts.
Tourist vocation
The Mayor of Sant'Anna Arresi, Maria Teresa Diana, wants to embrace the future of the territory: "Despite the presence of this servitude, it is an area with a tourist vocation, having the naturalness of the landscape as its characteristic attractions, and which seeks , through this model of development, to free oneself in a sustainable way from the advanced process of deindustrialisation that has been underway for some decades ”. The favorable opinion of the Ministry of Defense for the wind invasion of that stretch of coast is, therefore, yet another slap in the face of the dreams and ambitions of the territory. The mayor of Sant'Anna Arresi writes again: "The realization of these mega projects goes in the opposite direction to which the municipalities of the territory are tending with their actions and their programming tools, and for this reason a clear opposition is expressed the construction of the wind farm in question ".
Generals & Statutory Auditors
For the generals, however, everything is fine: we can proceed. It matters little if the legitimate representatives of the territory, the Mayors, have carved their own clear opposition with strong and unambiguous words. Not even a little respect for the Municipality of Teulada, the real host. Daniele Serra, the mayor of Teulada, writes it in no uncertain terms in the contrary opinion sent to the Capitaneria: «Military constraints are not limited to the mainland. Added to these is the strong limitation of the stretches of water in front of the Polygon that are forbidden during training activities, both at sea and on land, and there are also specific permanent ordinances that limit transit, fishing and bathing. The community of Teulada "has already given" in terms of renouncing its territories for "reasons of state" which is why, also in order to avoid adding constraints to constraints, it is believed that other areas must and can be chosen to to impose new ones ».
Wind & war
The Generals in this affair, however, are in good company. In the document presented to the Captaincy by the lords of the wind on the subject of "servitude at sea", skimpy as if it had also been written by the military academy of synthesis, they do not dwell too much, as if they already had the consent in their pocket from the top of the defense. In the accompanying report they write: "There are no obstacles to the military uses of maritime space." Too bad that they pretend to ignore that immediately after the military constraints at sea would also trigger the wind ones. In short, after the spaces at sea used for naval exercises of surface units and submarines, shooting, bombing, dredging and amphibians, their cyclopean blades would rise. Therefore, they do not disturb each other, on the contrary. Simply both will occupy, some with missiles and some with wind turbines, at least for the next 30 years, hundreds of millions of square meters of Sardinian sea, the exclusive one in front of the increasingly forbidden coasts of Teulada. Sardinians permitting.
