The step from the oil well to the steel skyscraper in the mountains of the Isola dei Nuraghi is short. Just enough time for a wind somersault on Sardinian soil, pushed by those alternating current environmentalists who remain silent about the pollution of Sarroch and exalt the rotating and devastating deeds on the Tacchi d'Ogliastra. It is the other side of this war on Sardinia on which the wise men of the environmentalism of the powerful remain silent, to be consumed without respite on the head of the Island of the sun and the wind.
Oil-Wind Stories
It is the projects, the names and surnames, the stories hidden from most, that reveal who is behind that devastation with the help of cyclopean wind turbines to be placed in the most exclusive places in the hinterland and not only in Sardinia. State companies that have effectively overturned the rules of the Civil Code, before it was the state shareholder who controlled them, now they are the ones who control the State, guide the policies of the Governments, impose times and procedures, decide the money to be "given", perhaps making it weigh as often happens on the bills of the citizens. They do not look at anyone's face. They do and undo, they enter the Parliaments through the main door, heard in the commissions as oracles from which to await indications and provisions.
Sponsors & Lobbies
The parade of these next few days in the Palaces of Rome is disarming: they burst into the hearings of the Parliamentary Commissions on the Decree on renewable energy with the same presence of the old potentate of politics, each sponsored by their own party of reference, with a map of connections that leaves even the most experienced lobbyists of the Transatlantic of Rome speechless. Each oil or fake wind company is accompanied by a code acronym, that of the parliamentary group that offered the passepartout to access the rooms apparently of the buttons.
The partition
To be discussed is the latest framework decree which in itself is already a paved road for the wind fixers in the land of Sardinia, from the procedures to the supremacy of renewables in the presence of "Landscape" and "Cultural Heritage". In short, despite the fact that in those texts it is already foreseen that wind turbines and silicon panels always come before Nuraghi and Menhirs, sinuous hills or granite Heels, they, the wind oilmen, always want more. They would like to annihilate the last resistance of those who oppose the devastation of an Island, deny any environmental assessment to obtain with a "military" decree the authorization to stick, in the land and in the sea, their new drills, no longer those of depth, but those of the sky. In Sardinia, the multinational oil companies, sponsored by "peppy" and high-sounding environmental associations of high rank, those who instead of protecting the environment remain silent about the spills in the air, on the ground and underground in the vicinity of the refinery that once belonged to the Morattis, are at the forefront of the assault on the landscape of the Island.
Secret Charm
The deployment of the wind oilmen is the image of power, the real one, consolidated and pervasive, capable of entering the decision-making ganglia and remote-controlling anyone, excluding those who do not give in to the secret charm of “petroleum” wind power. Entering the sea magnum of projects brought down to Sardinian soil by the “crude oil” powerful is like looking at a military map of areas to conquer and conquered, of untouched scenarios to attack and others to reduce to new “Saras” or wind petrochemicals in the middle of Gennargentu, Montiferru, passing from Marganai to Limbara. The chessboard seems surreal, but it is all true, marked by cyclopean projects with hundreds of wind turbines distributed everywhere without any fear of contrary reactions. Leading the assault are the oil and gas multinationals, the top-level ones, from Eni to Saras, from Sorgenia to Repsol, up to Erg di Saccargia. First of all, “His Highness” Eni, or the constituted power, the real Foreign Minister, the real Energy Minister, the real Defense Minister. The state agency that “emptied” the oil wells of half of Africa is now targeting the Sardinian Sea. It officially submitted its latest project for environmental assessment on the eve of this last August bank holiday, July 27, 2024, not caring about fake moratoriums and false proclamations from the Palace.
Garibaldi Mission
The wind-oil landing could have easily been called “Mission Garibaldi” given that the project aims to place 33 wind turbines right in front of Caprera, the island that belonged to the Hero of Two Worlds. An offshore wind project – the ministerial protocol states – to be built on the coasts of north-eastern Sardinia, with a power of 462 megawatts, energy for almost half a million inhabitants. The oil-wind lords have not denied themselves even in the search for a name for the project with which to “plunder” the consensus of the Nuragic civilization.
Nurax, in front of Caprera
They called it Nurax Wind Power, as if the Nuragic inspiration could somehow protect that outrage in the middle of the Sardinian sea. The oilmen in the palaces of Rome were not satisfied with presenting a project to deface only the Island of the “Red Shirt”, but they relaunched by presenting a second project right in front of the Costa Smeralda, an industrial scarecrow of 1008 megawatts, 72 wind generators, potentially over 300 meters high, with a high-sounding name: “Poseidon”. To the two sea parks in the north of the island, Eni, always “magnanimous” with the south of the island, has added special attention to the Island of San Pietro and the Iglesiente coast, already dominated by the devastation of state mining, never healed, with a further offshore project, this time the Ichnusa Wind Power. Another 500 megawatts and 42 blades to be placed on the tuna route, in front of Carloforte, Masua and Porto Flavia.
The Saras Invasion
Those who preferred to keep the hinterland of the island tightly closed are the other multinational oil company, Saras, the refinery that once belonged to the Morattis and now passed into the hands of a boundless Vitol, a company without a fixed abode, with billion-dollar interests all over the world. The legacy should also include all the wind projects that the oil lords of Sarroch have scattered copiously far and wide throughout Sardinia. A real climb to the Sardinian wind, without any shame, annihilating most of the time, if not all, common sense and the sense of responsibility. Ten wind “industrial parks” planned in the most exclusive points of the island, without any shame for the environment and landscapes. They are even planning one in front of the paradise of Tuerredda, with 7 wind turbines over 200 meters high to be stuck on the promontory of "Kersonesus" between Teulada and Domus De Maria, with cable ducts up to Pula, Villa San Pietro and Sarroch. The list is long: "Monte Pranu", 10 turbines for a total power of 72 megawatts in Basso Sulcis, in the territory of Villaperuccio; Villanova Tulo, 72 megawatts 10 turbines, with passages in the municipalities of Isili, Nurallao, Nuragus, Genoni; "Monte Argentu" project, 6 turbines, in the municipality of Nurri; "Onanie" project, 6 turbines in the territory of Onanì Bitti, Buddusò; ten wind turbines in the heart of Seui for 68 megawatts; "Amistade" project, 21 turbines for 130.2 megawatts to be built in the municipalities of Esterzili and Escalaplano; 7 more blades for 50.4 megawatts to be driven into the Isili area; "Astìa" project, 5 turbines in Villamassargia and Musei; "Boreas" plant, 10 turbines in Jerzu and Ulassai.
Saccargia's Defacement
Pure oilmen, reconverted on the path of the wind, also the gentlemen of the award-winning Erg, Edoardo Raffinerie Garrone. They are the ones who, with the obstinacy of the wind-powered crude oil prospectors, have decided, with the good offices of the State, to undermine the proscenium of the great Basilica of Saccargia with devastating wind turbines over 200 meters high. A project approved by Mario Draghi himself, despite the contrary opinions of the Superintendence, the Region and every institution with common sense. Pursuing the Sardinian trend of "oil-wind" are the Spanish oilmen par excellence, those of "Repsol", the most important oil and gas company in Spain and one of the largest in Latin America. For them, three projects have already been presented: 99.2 megawatts, 15 blades for the "Orria" project to be built in the Municipalities of Nulvi and Sedini; 15 wind turbines also for the "Olivinditta" project in the municipality of Alà dei Sardi; 15 wind turbines for the "Monti" project to be built in the municipalities of Monti and Olbia. The Spanish oil companies are not missing out on the agrivoltaic plan either: the 75 megawatt "Madagoccu" project to be built in Uta and Assemini
The Powerful Ones of Sorgenia
Finally, between gas and electricity, one of the biggest potential “disfigurers” of the Sardinian landscape is Sorgenia, which has been “tapping” methane since 2003, directly from the Green Stream gas pipeline, directly connected to Libya. The projects of the company owned by F2i, the financial fund that would also like to buy Cagliari airport, are spread across the island from north to south. A chessboard that appears to be linked more to geopolitics than to wind. Seven gigantic wind farms planned from Monti Ferru to Sulcis, from Medio Campidano to Gallura. In this plan by Sorgenia to conquer the Sardinian wind, we can glimpse strong, if not very strong, ties with Sardinian politics itself, at the highest levels, with a national direction that sees the banking world and well-identified political potentates committed to supporting this financial wind energy climb in Sardinia. All relationships, ties and intrigues that lie behind the great deal of the Sardinian wind, between oil and gas.
