Draghi commissioner for wind power in the Gulf of Nora

Dispatch of war

The Sunday operation was triggered by a "dispatch", that's what it is called, sent directly by the Prime Minister's Office. To write to the Prefecture is the office dedicated to the centralization of the state, the "armed" arm of Palazzo Chigi. A sort of war machine used by the Prime Minister when he wants to impose solutions without leaving too much space for the positions of the various departments. It is the Department for Administrative Coordination that on 25 August writes to the Prefecture of Cagliari. The order is peremptory: stop with these service conferences on offshore wind on the coast between Cagliari, Sarroch, Pula Villa San Pietro and Domus de Maria. The language is warlike: "It is communicated to these esteemed Administrations - Entities - Companies, that with dispatch the Presidency of the Council of Ministers has attributed to the Prefecture of Cagliari the competence to appoint the single Representative of the public administrations in the proceedings concerning the object".

The blades of JP Morgan

And on what the topic of the Services Conference was: "Application for a maritime state concession for the duration of 40 years for the occupation of a stretch of water and areas of maritime state property for the construction and operation of a offshore wind power plant, floating type, in the territorial sea area off the southern coast of Sardinia, consisting of 40 wind turbines, for a total power of 600 MW - Nora Ventu 2 plant ». To this project, the subject of the canceled services conference, we must add the even more substantial one of the same company, with 53 blades, for 795 megawatts, destined to “undergo” the same acceleration. These are not two random projects: in fact, the largest investment bank in the United States of America, JP Morgan, is leading that wind attack. They are the lords of the wind who are putting in every possible pressure to bring home the "sack" of the Gulf of Angels. The operation, the subject of an investigation by our newspaper, had, in fact, revealed that the American bank, even without having any guarantee on the approval of that plan to invade that stretch of sea in front of the Punic vestiges of Nora, had acquired most of the company's shares from Falck Renewables, in partnership with an important Spanish wind group. The blitz in dollars ended on February 24th without any official certainty about the success of the invasion project of the Sardinian sea. With the Infrastructure Investment Fund, JP Morgan took home 60% of Falck Renewables, or the parent company of "Nora Ventu", the company that, with two separate but actually unique projects, had first started the climb to the Gulf of Angels.

The wind "darkness"

To the most attentive observers it had seemed very strange that such an important financial giant had played the game of offshore wind in Sardinia in the "dark". With this real sudden acceleration of Palazzo Chigi, the American project, on the other hand, “risks” going to port, upsetting the coast of Cagliari forever. Plenty of concessions and incentives for multinationals and large banks, while insurmountable constraints and obstacles, for example, for beach concessions.

Umbrellas & shovels

For the assignments of portions of beaches, the Government has invoked international tenders, with concession times not exceeding six / seven years, with the prior definition of the spaces that can be occupied. All this for a few umbrellas. For the occupation of millions of square meters of sea, the Italian state, on the other hand, not only does not set any rules, but allows the first to arrive to occupy immense portions of the sea without a shot being fired. Indeed, the lords of the wind even self-establish the duration of the concession: for the two projects of Nora, American and Spanish, they expect 40 years of duration. In spite of the seaside resorts, they can get what they want. It does not matter if the landscape, marine resources, safety of navigation, tourism development are jeopardized. Everything is allowed to the wind power lords. This is why the order given is peremptory: "For this purpose, said Territorial Office of the Government has instructed the Port Authority to provide without delay the formalities aimed at proceeding with the appointment of the only representative authorized to express definitively and unambiguously and binding the position of all the state administrations involved in the service conferences in question ”.

Draghi's haste

The statements in the "dispatch", which we publish in full, let us understand that Mario Draghi is in a hurry: the Port Authority, "expressly delegated with the aforementioned provision, proceeds without delay to the closure of the preliminary phase delegated up to now, to the drafting of the required documents and to the immediate remission of the same in the hands of the aforementioned Authority ". Palazzo Chigi realized that it was imposing the “single thought” procedure in the middle of August. The conference of services, therefore, is canceled. Municipalities cornered, excluded from everything. In Rome they decided to commission Sardinia. American wind turbines on the Gulf of Angels are at anchor.