The round bales are planted on the ground. They don't move even if you push them. True plain, that of Campidano at the gates of Cagliari, once the granary of Italy. The ears here are a golden sea that sways driven by a barely whispered breeze. The break-in is not on tiptoe. The lords of the wind, those who make money at full throttle with state incentives, plucked from citizens' bills, this time aiming straight for the most luxuriant lands of the Nuraghi Island.

Wind philanthropists

The "philanthropists" appearances of the wind and the sun have given way in advance to the real assault on the most productive agricultural fields of the island. With the silence and timing of the usual summer blitzes, used by multinational wind companies, without uttering a word, they materialized plans and deals to be consumed instead of wheat and artichokes. In the same moments in which the lords of the wind relied on festive proclamations in Sardinia, the Ministry of the Environment, transformed into that of wind turbines and solar panels, was deposited a real plan for the invasion of Campidano, the quadrilateral between Samassi, Serrenti, Furtei and Sanluri. News to hide, of course. All in the dark.

Wind hourglass

To put municipalities back to the wall and beyond. It is no coincidence, in fact, that the timing of the opposition to the project is marked by an hourglass of just 30 days. The deadline has already been set: by 9 July, applications can be presented to counter those steel skyscrapers destined to forever rape the landscape and open a further gap in the logic of incentives in exchange for agricultural land in Sardinia. Obviously no public announcement, no external communication. The 66 megawatt "Samassi-Serrenti wind farm" project, with transformation station in the municipality of Sanluri, blades and ancillary works in the municipalities of Samassi, Serrenti and Furtei, had to remain secret. The only public notice is hidden, in the true sense of the word, in the worst administrative transparency site of the Draghi Government, that of the Ecological Transition. For months, the protests about denied access to that state archive have been such a rumor that even the Minister himself has had to justify himself with the improbable thesis of a Russian attack on the computer system. Opening the vault of environmental assessment data is like carrying out a robbery in Fort Knox. The "Sardinia" alarm went off last June 8, late in the evening.

Wind and airports

The Ministry of Cingolani loads into the computer system the plan of none other than Sorgenia, the wind and solar company of Carlo De Benedetti, saved from a daring billionaire collapse and now in the hands of the F2i Fund, the same that has already got its hands on the airports of Alghero and Olbia and now he is aiming to put Cagliari's one in his pocket as well. The project to invade the Campidano takes place between Milan and Paternò, deep Sicily, in the land of Syracuse. The client is a limited liability company, based in the land of the Duomo: Sorgenia Renewables srl. The signature on the project, in the name and on behalf of the Antex design company, is of an engineer domiciled in Paternò. And it is he who writes the symbolic phrases of this Campidano occupation plan.

Tourists of the paddles

He does not lack the courage to support the usefulness of those steel skyscrapers stuck between luxuriant artichoke plantations and expanses of “triticum durum”, that durum wheat capable of making a difference in the future of food. It is not easy to find reasons for those 206 meters high blades, with propellers with a diameter of 160 meters, planted on gigantic reinforced concrete foundations in place of the “Sardinian thorny”. He, the engineer from Paternò, however, sports a textbook one of the surreal. He writes: "The presence on the territory of a wind farm can be considered to all intents and purposes the object of a visit and an element of education for schools, universities or even just simple tourists". Well, even just thinking about it is a joke. No one had ever dared to put pen to paper the fact that tourists can come to Sardinia, a stone's throw from the Nuragic palace of Barumini, to "admire" the 68-story wind skyscrapers placed in the middle of the most fertile plain of the island. Wind tourism was missing from the category of business farces in the name of renewable energy in the land of Sardinia.

Beer and business

According to the Sicilian county technician, among the "impressive" revenues of this 66 megawatt wind farm, one tenth of the Portovesme plant, there would also be "an induced activity linked to the plant's activity: restaurants, bars, hotels, etc. . " In short, thanks to those shovels, more aperitifs and lavish lunches will be consumed, all destined to "overturn" the economic fortunes of the territory. Certainly who will make the money, the real ones, with many zeros, will be the lords of Sorgenia.

The bills in your pocket

Each megawatt corresponds on average to 140 thousand euros per year of incentives. Each shovel will "produce" the beauty of 840 thousand euros each year. They, therefore, the lords of Sorgenia, will take home the beauty of 9 million and 240 thousand euros, 25 thousand euros a day, for at least 20 years of State "prebends". Sardinia, and the Sardinians, will remain those tourists praised in economic prose by the engineer from Paternò, ready to sail the Tyrrhenian to "contemplate" the wind turbines of the Campidano and sip a "beer" in front of the slow pace of those fans on the landscape . For the rest, they will always find someone who, in exchange for some alms, will also be a candidate to open the gates of the Campidano to the lords of the wind. Even in this case, Sardinia will have nothing left. Just landscaping and cornfields turned into business land.

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