«"Welcome and welcome to Sardinia, the land of the electric landscape".
This risks being the slogan with which we will welcome groups in the next tourist seasons, at least as long as the next seasons exist, given that over time no one will spend their savings on holidays without scenery anymore".
Thus begins the open letter signed by 60 naturalistic companies and environmental guides on the island, who contest the attack on renewable energy production plants underway on the island.
Here is the full document:
«We are guides and tourist companies in the nature and sports sector, some young and others less so, frightened by the policies that are transforming the landscape of Sardinia and which will cause the crisis in the sector. Our work and earnings depend on a particular tourist category, on people interested in Sardinia for its beauty
nature. So to speak, we rent landscapes, with a positive economic impact on the area, given that we eat, sleep, visit monuments and museums, and travel with local carriers.
Among us there are those who started in the early 2000s, working for more than twenty years to make Sardinia a nature tourism destination of European importance, with territorial promotion, collaboration with local authorities, networking, investments in capital goods, deseasonalization... Everything could end, because no one likes walking or cycling among wind turbines, doing yoga among photovoltaic panels or taking photos on a horizon pierced by a forest of enormous poles, visible for kilometers.
Most of us have never received a euro of public contribution, we have built a new economy in Sardinia only with our own strength and our savings, because the Region, despite all its contradictions, seemed to be marching in the same direction: Cycling Network of Sardinia, new parks such as those of Gùturu Mannu and Tepilora, Sardinia Hiking Network, tenders for the construction of bridle paths, International Active Tourism Exchange, conferences, professional training courses for hiking and cycling guides...
