Unsuitable Areas: "The Map Does Not Exist"

A map of unsuitable areas in Sardinia? "I asked the Region: it doesn't exist. We're talking about nothing." Maurizio Onnis, mayor of Villanovaforru, calls the discovery "a terrible turn of events" while he is dealing with one of the numerous requests for the construction of a wind farm in the territory of his municipality.

The regional Department of the Environment asked him, the mayor, to indicate whether the areas chosen by the company Engie Trexenta Srl for the “Marmilla” project, with six large-scale wind turbines, are suitable or not on the basis of Law 20 approved last December by the Regional Council. A short circuit of competences.

Onnis sought enlightenment with a phone call to the department. The answer made him drop his arms, made him jump in his chair and unleashed all the reactions of despair that can be expressed with ready-made phrases: "The map is not there."

The mayor

«Where is the detailed map of suitable and unsuitable areas in Sardinia, which comes from Law 20 and its annexes, with the dozens and dozens of criteria that allow the exclusion of the installation of renewable energy sources?».

The Board

In the evening, a joint note of reply to Onnis arrived from the regional departments of Urban Planning, Environment and Industry: «The map actually exists and is in the testing phase», they affirm.