If it wasn't all written and documented we would think it was a joke. Instead, it's all shockingly true. In the natural compluvium of Marganai, on the slopes of the mountain that overlooks the Cixerri plain, the water flows under trace, disappears and reappears, in that karst-superficial game that has always characterized this enclave of streams and rivers, copious springs and waterfalls impetuous.
German "Pentagon".
It is known that the global dominance of the war industries is capable of anything, but here, in this German "pentagon" in the land of Sardinia, they know no limits. In every way they have tried to conceal a cyclopean expansion of an assembly line that produces bombs without restraint, to be exported here and there, to feed armies across the world and wars without borders. The administrative courts, however, do not let them pass one, including the Council of State which ruled without appeal: in the absence of the Environmental Impact Assessment you cannot move even a nail. It's a shame that they, the Germans of Rwm, have smashed, built and raged with municipal authorizations without ever going through the mandatory procedure for plants of that scale and danger, both for the environment, for the workers and for the surrounding population.
Curses & confetti
They dodged that environmental assessment with both hands, feared as a curse, as if inside that factory only blessings and confetti were dispensed. Now, however, the gentlemen of the Rwm want to attempt the impossible: to heal at all costs that "city of bombs" that they have built by gutting a piece of mountain, invading waterways, modifying the entire orographic structure of the area. At stake is what for them is latent damage that has already been taking place for some time: they cannot even touch that part built between 2016 and 2021, they are forbidden to use it, not even if they put their feet on the ground. Last week, the TAR of Sardinia reiterated this to him in no uncertain terms. The last desperate attempt to prevent bulldozers from having to restore the entire area is the most complex procedure: a posthumous Environmental Impact Assessment, after works have already been completed.
It is forbidden to close your eyes
A process where no one can close their eyes or remain silent. They, the Germans in the land of Sulcis, know this well. For this reason, failing to dismantle the sentences, they try to make rivers and waterways disappear, complete with proposals to modify the hydrographic system deposited in the municipalities and beyond. Technically the maps speak of " partial variation of the hydrographic network and its reclassification ", in essence it is an operation by water magicians, with those river beds that are deleted from the maps without firing a shot, as if those river courses water had never existed.
Rwm, erase rivers
The proposal to "whiten" those water paths was put forward directly by Rwm Italia SpA, the Italian branch of the German Rheinmetall, the largest bomb producer in Europe. The recipients of that "request for the disappearance of the waterways" are the Municipality of Iglesias, due to the administrative island located in those areas, and that of Domusnovas. A proposal that immediately appeared inadmissible, beyond any possible legitimacy given the precedents of the administrative judges. The municipal councils, however, not without some conflict, gave the green light to that request from the "powerful" Rwm, deciding to send with their assent that proposal for the disappearance of the waterways to the Regional Agency of the Hydrographic District of Sardinia , a sort of water court, in theory the guardian of the island's system of rivers and waterways.
High risk area
It is there, in those regional rooms, that in the last few hours an act as heavy as a boulder has arrived. More than observations, it is a truly explosive complaint full of technical data and, above all, a very serious accusation: the Rwm plant classified as " high risk " and its expansion were built in an area largely classified as " Hi4 zone", or " area with very high hydraulic risk (Ri4 level), where loss of life and serious injuries to people are possible ".
Indictment
An unprecedented indictment that reveals the facts and misdeeds of a story that in many ways still needs to be clarified. Signing it are Graziano Bullegas, Secretary of Italia Nostra Sardegna, Rosalba Meloni for the Cagliari Social Forum, Arnaldo Scarpa representing the RWM Reconversion Committee, Salvatore Drago for the Unione Sindacale di Base – Sardinia, Marco Mameli of the Assotziu Consumadoris Sardigna, Giacomo Meloni for the Sardinian Trade Union Confederation and Mariella Setzu of Cobas Cagliari. Supporting a document that is as detailed as it is disarming is a group of first-level technicians, consultants and teachers: Salvatore Carboni, Massimo Coraddu, Leonardo Marotta and Flavia Sicuriello.
Disappearance under attack
The associations' document dismantles piece by piece the reports of the Rwm technicians and those appointed by the Municipalities who had stated that those waterways that cross the Rwm can be eliminated because they are "not significant". A statement that the technicians of the committees devastate with a statement that would deserve much further study elsewhere: " the request was formulated on the basis of incomplete information and a description of the area concerned which was significantly different from the real situation, which appears very different and much more critical than represented."
Risk of serious accident
What appears more serious is that the analysis of the municipal technicians and those of the Rwm omitted that «This establishment is classified as having a risk of major accident of a higher threshold, relating to the control of the danger of major accidents connected with dangerous substances ( Seveso III Directive). The presence of such a production plant appears of particular relevance in the case in question, given that it significantly increases the potential risks linked to the hydrogeological structure". However, it is written in the complaint, this fundamental element " is never mentioned". There is worse in the opposition document : «we immediately realize that the plans in annexes 2 and 3, used to determine the course and catchment area of the examined waterways do not absolutely correspond to the real situation, visible in the satellite image contained in the Report itself".
Everything was forbidden
The representatives of the associations write: «The massive construction activity carried out inside the Rwm plant of Domusnovas-Iglesias, in the middle of the Hi4 area, appears disconcerting, given that the implementation rules of the Hydrogeological Management Plan expressly prohibit it». In the regulation it is written : "In areas of very high hydraulic danger, it is always forbidden to build: new factories or expansions of factories subject to the obligations of the "Implementation of the directive relating to the control of the dangers of major accidents connected with certain dangerous substances"» .
Abuse that cannot be remedied
The attempt to make the rivers and waterways "disappear" is linked to an aspect of the matter of no small importance: « This imposing construction could obviously not be authorized in a Hi4 area with very high hydrogeological risk, and therefore, to pursuant to what is established by the regulations in force it should even be considered an abuse that cannot be remedied ". This is the game at stake: according to the associations and committees, complete with technical reports, that demolition of that area, there is talk of excavations for " no less than 130,000 cubic meters of earth and rocks ", could not be done. Finally, in the technicians' report there is a very weighty statement: satellite images and representations of the catchment area of the waterways absolutely do not correspond to the real situation. The question is heavy: who and why made the waterways disappear in the bomb factory?
