Sink, for the time being. The 300-meter-high wind turbines to be placed in the heart of the Golfo degli Angeli will remain a mirage. The high-profile deals to be consumed to the sound of billionaires state incentives do not have to be done. The long-awaited and unexpected verdict is consummated with an official communication from the Port Authority of Cagliari.
The negative dispatch
The dispatch is dated September 13, 2022. As often happens, the message bursts into the e-mail of the municipalities when the offices are already closed: offshore wind projects rejected. Technically, this is the conclusion with a "negative" outcome of the Service Conferences first called and then revoked to grant or not the mega wind invasion in the stretch of water of the Gulf of Cagliari, up to Pula and Domus de Maria.
Eiffel Tower in the sea
A real assault to the sound of cyclopean wind turbines, higher than the Eiffel Tower, to float with impunity in an exclusive stretch of sea. The gaze that projects from the Bastion of Cagliari to the Punic remains of Nora would have been irremediably compromised if those projects had, in one way or another, materialized. The communication from the Port Authority of Cagliari is a sequence of denials. At dawn yesterday the municipal offices of Pula, Villa San Pietro, Domus de Maria, Teulada, Carloforte, Sant'Antioco, Calasetta and Teulada receive the determination of the Southern Sardinia Harbor Office. Falling under the caudine forks of the graduated men in charge of the safety of navigation and in many ways of the sea itself are four offshore wind farms of gigantic dimensions: the two Falck Renewables projects, Nora Ventu 1 and 2, totaling 91 blades for 1,400 megawatts, and those of Toro 1 and 2, 48 blades for 576 megawatts to be built between the islands of San Pietro and Sant'Antioco, proposed by Seawind Italia.
Routes in danger
The determination of the Port Authority of Cagliari is clear and clear: concession denied. The reason is synthetic: entrusting millions of square meters of water under concession means compromising navigation routes, naturalistic environmental heritage, even affecting the life of the sea, starting with the bluefin tuna route, which has always been a strategic resource for the Island of Carloforte. and not only. The state office overturns the procedures: before granting the concession of such large stretches of sea, an environmental impact assessment is required.
