The Prosecutor's Office's Lens on Renewables. In Cagliari, Coordination of Investigations

All the complaints regarding wind power and renewable energy plants have ended up on the desk of the deputy public prosecutor of Cagliari, Rossella Spano , who is in charge of a series of investigations – still without any criminal charges and without suspects – which aim to shed light on compliance with the regulations regarding authorizations and on the regularity of the projects already approved and currently under construction.

There will therefore be a single, wide-ranging investigation, overseen by the District Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office , which may subsequently involve other Sardinian prosecution offices, should hypotheses of crimes falling within their respective areas of competence be formulated.

In addition to the complaints filed in all the Sardinian prosecutors' offices by the Scientific Committee Insularity in the Constitution, in the past other associations and individual citizens had also formalized reports and complaints in the various criminal registries of Cagliari, Sassari, Nuoro, Oristano, Lanusei and Tempio Pausania. In order to avoid the birth of carbon-copy investigations, with useless and costly duplications, with the green light of the Attorney General, Luigi Patronaggio, the decision to entrust everything to the district attorney, Rodolfo Sabelli, and - in cascade - to the deputy prosecutor Spano, was recently shared.

The exposed

The latest complaints-denunciations filed in chronological order, as mentioned, were those of the Scientific Committee on Insularity in the Constitution, coordinated by Maria Antonietta Mongiu and legally assisted by the lawyer Rita Dedola. But the chancellery of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Cagliari, both recently and last year, had already received other complaints. One concerned the project of 10 wind turbines about 200 meters high planned for Villacidro: it was filed by the "Gallura Coordination against wind and photovoltaic speculation", supported by the lawyer Michele Zuddas. A complaint against the same plant had also been filed by Anfor, the National Forestry Association chaired by Pierino Daveri, and another by the associations "Sardegna Pulita" of Angelo Cremone and "Donne ambiente Sardegna" of Lidia Frailis, both assisted by the lawyer Alessandra Nocco. Another complaint with a request for verification by the judiciary concerned the Tyrrhenian Link, the submarine cable that should connect Sardinia, Sicily and Campania. In this case, the ones who formalized the complaint were the lawyers Giulia Lai and Paolo Pubusa for the “No Tyrrhenian Link” committees of Quartu and Selargius.