Far West wind risk on the Sardinian sea

They decide in St. Moritz

So it is the Swiss of St. Moritz who decide where to put their wind turbines, financed by the stellar bills of Italian and Sardinian citizens, it is they who choose in the house of others what is best and what is not. And this is how, in the end, they chose the south of Sardinia for the aeolian invasion. According to the reasoning of the Swiss on the areas discarded because they are valuable and protected, the one chosen is, therefore, the least valuable. So little of landscape, environmental, geographic, economic and maritime value that we can slap a wind invasion of this magnitude with impunity. Because the lords of the wind who came from the other side of the Alps, with their registered office between the gondolas and the doges of Venice, are only the forerunners of this planned landing in the reviled south of the island.

Wind investigations

The investigations of the Sardinian Union on the wind ascent on the Sardinian seas had well in advance highlighted the appetites of multinationals and spy companies, complete with underground projects already published in recent months. Today, to confirm and make the landing announced by our newspaper months ago even more invasive, are the documents we publish, starting from an official map "hidden" among the papers of a procedure that has remained armored and precluded to most in the Ministry of Infrastructure and Mobility sustainable. In fact, in Rome, at the crossroads of Porta Pia, work is being done extensively to plan none other than the future of the Sardinian sea. To find the document, you need to ask the most experienced hackers for support. When the removal from the state computer safes is complete, you come across the "Management Plan of the Maritime Space Sub Area Mo / 11 Continental Platform and ZPE Western Tyrrhenian and Western Sardinia". A real master plan of the Sardinian sea, from what you can do, what to do, how and where to do it. It is drafted by a state-owned company, Sogesid SpA, divided into three mission lines: Engineering, Territory, Environment. A plan that is not accidental, nor in terms of timing nor in the choice of the starting location. After all, we know: the State, when it comes to Sardinia, operates with the confidentiality that most of the time manifests itself in pre-packaged blitzes.

The state dispatch

Enrico Giovannini's dispatch from the Ministry was struck by the Porta Pia “telegraph” at dawn on 7 February last. The communication is formal, without emphasis: "The consultation phase of the Preliminary Environmental Report relating to the management plan of the Tyrrhenian and Western Mediterranean maritime space is open", translated as the Sardinian sea. The recipients of the letter from Rome are a select few, from the Port Authorities, an arm of the state, the offices of the Regional Environment Department and some other unknown recipient. The preliminary report, 464 pages of everything and more, when he turns the spotlight on Sardinia uses the touch of the incontrovertible values of nature and the environment, to the point of declining the feasibility of the most nefarious war activities.

Prudence & hazards

In short, a mix of prudence and unscrupulousness, of intellectual honesty and institutional conditioning. After all, what can one expect from a state-owned company if not the pursuit of the objective set by the government in office? The plan is ambiguous, as befits the Palazzo's tightrope walk. An incontrovertible fact, however, emerges in the analysis: "The area of the Western Tyrrhenian Sea and Western Sardinia is characterized by the high environmental value recognized by various protection and management tools, first of all the ZPE - Ecological protection zone of the Mediterranean, tools that need to be coordinated, integrated and strengthened, to ensure the long-term protection of the ecosystem services that this area provides for the benefit of the entire environmental and socio-economic system of the Western Mediterranean ». Not half sentences, but the clear exhortation to "strengthen" the protection of the Sardinian sea. As it happens, then, if you move to the south of the island, on the east and west sides, the prospects become more "energetic". According to the Government's plan, in addition to the «peculiar condition of exploitation of deep resources such as red shrimps», «the area has a vocation with respect to the potential for exploitation of renewable energy sources, both with respect to wind and wave energy. This vocation must be preserved and strengthened in the direction of the energy transition towards the development of the renewable marine energy sector ». Therefore, according to the government's plan, there is a "vocation" for that area at sea to be pierced by wind turbines, for the exploitation, in favor of the Swiss, the Americans, the Dutch, of that impetuous wind. Here, as if by spell, environmental peculiarities, commercial traffic, fishing and even military exercises disappear to make room for the aeolian invasion.

Vessel Captain

Among the first to respond to the state dispatch is Mario Valente, the Commander of the Port Authority of Cagliari. Not even 48 hours pass from the letter from the Ministry of Infrastructure that the Captain of the vessel forwards the reply. He cannot use alarmist tones, he understands where the Government wants to "tie up" the wind turbines, but as a seaman he cannot escape a real SOS The risk is a real Far West where the first who wakes up asks to occupy endless expanses of sea. He writes it without half measures: "The graphic representation of these plants highlights, in the sole opinion of the writer, the need for an upstream identification of the areas to be allocated to offshore wind farms to avoid compromising consolidated fishing areas or sea traffic routes ". The call of the man of the ship is explicit: this step risks aeolian anarchy in the Sardinian sea. And the Commander of the Harbor Master firmly reiterates this: "Considering that the planning is aimed at preventing conflicts and increasing synergies between the various maritime activities, even outside the territorial waters, it is considered desirable, already in the aforementioned planning, the identification of the maritime areas mainly usable for this purpose and which interact less with transport and fishing activities ". As if to say, for now, on the horizon of the Sardinian sea, we can only glimpse a real Far West wind farm.