The Sardinian committees against energy speculation are making their voices heard again . And they're taking immediate action: tomorrow morning, the Gallura, Sarcidano, and Alta Marmilla Committees will file " a formal complaint ," states Maria Grazia Demontis, the first signatory, "with the Cagliari Public Prosecutor's Office, the Oristano Public Prosecutor's Office, and other relevant authorities, regarding serious irregularities at the Monte Grighine wind farm in the municipality of Mogorella ."
The battle continues, therefore, and this morning the permanent garrison of the Sardinian people returned to the square, under the Regional building in Viale Trento in Cagliari, to put the energy issue affecting the island back at the centre of the debate .
"The Sardinia Region must immediately challenge Legislative Decree 175 , which regulates the regulations on areas suitable for the construction of renewable energy plants , and at the same time it must address what it has failed to do up to now," the protesters specified.
For Davide Fadda, one of the spokespersons, «the Region must lay the foundations for urban planning legislation that will regulate the matter , not so much energy, which is a matter in competition with the State, but urban planning : for a Sardinian citizen it is impossible to open a window in a building in the countryside, while for these speculators it is possible to build 250-meter-high towers».
Among the demands is approval of the popular initiative bill called Pratobello24, to free the island from the grip of the wind and agri-photovoltaic energy onslaught.
The Region, through President Todde, had already expressed firm opposition—and announced it would consider challenging it—to the government's chosen path, considering it " an act of force that tramples on the role of the Regions and completely ignores the voice of the territories ," because "it renders all regional laws regarding suitable and unsuitable areas ineffective and requires that authorizations be based exclusively on state legislation."
