The question is simple, and at the same time disturbing: why does a Spanish multinational, all money and wind, decide to sell a wind project, that of Gomoretta, in the heart of the Barbagia, already rejected by all? The question knocks on the door of Sos Enattos, Lula's mine, on the day after the great state parade, the one that should belatedly sanction the official endorsement of the Einstein Telescope project, the spatial ear perched on the bowels of Barbagia. When Siemens Gamesa secretly sells, and Spv Parco eolico Maestrale buys, on 27 July 2022, no one would bet a single euro on that windy operation in the Bitti mountains.

All against

Everyone, namely everyone, from the Ministry of the Environment to that of Culture, from the Tar to the Council of State, from the Region to the municipalities of Bitti and Lula, had already expressed themselves in no uncertain terms: against. Yet in the notary's office at number 22 in via Pietro Tacchini in Rome there is someone who signs: one to sell and one to buy, despite the fact that a headwind has been blowing on that project since 2018 which would be worthy of a retreat in grand style. Instead, they are believers. As if nothing had happened, they make an appointment to draw up a contract that leaves you amazed just rereading it: they sell papers and failures, in exchange for 10 million and 200 thousand euros. What is most perplexing is that he sells a powerful wind multinational, Siemens Gamesa, and buys an unknown company with wind ambitions, the SPV Parco Eolico Maestrale srl., set up just five months earlier.

Miracle of Gomoretta

The operation, of course, was to remain secret. Enclosed in the vortex of notarial documents that flow like a river in flood, karst, underground, but not totally camouflaged. It is that contract, complete with a suspension clause, as if it were known that someone at Palazzo Chigi had promised Gomoretta's "miracle". Only a "miracle", in fact, could lead to the approval of a project tormented by sentences and opinions that appeared incontrovertible, both for the good rule of common sense, and for that of law, starting from the administrative one. Instead, on the eve of the exchange of the bell between Mario Draghi and Giorgia Meloni, the miracle-crime takes place, as if the lords of via Pietro Tacchini had a crystal ball capable of intercepting the final floors of Palazzo Chigi, again, for a few hours , in the hands of the banker who became prime minister. An operation as daring as it is inexplicable, considering that everyone knew that the project collided "scientifically", even before landscape, with the Einstein Telescope, the largest space ear able, thanks to the cosmic silence of the depths of Sos Enattos, to intercept the movements of the Universe through gravitational waves. Everyone knew it, because the scientists had put it down on paper: those wind turbines heavily interfere with the exclusive silence of the bowels of the earth in the triangle between Lula, Bitti and Onanì.

Scientists lined up

They wrote it "apertis verbis", so much so that the Physics Institutes that sponsor the telescope have even presented formal oppositions to the competent ministries. Draghi, however, on the one hand indulged in formal support for the scientific initiative and on the other hand, instead, inflicted a sentence without appeal by approving " manu militari" that project which a few months earlier had been sold, secretly, at a high price. The wind power operation that threatens to seriously endanger the great scientific project of Sos Enattos is now in the hands of the Judges of the Sardinia Tar, but the legal path seems long and insidious, at least for the times that promise to be infinite, given that the first the hearing in the Court of Piazza del Carmine in Cagliari is set for 11 October 2023. Then, after the sentence, there will be a sure appeal to the Council of State of whoever loses.

Judicial sword

A judicial sword that weighs like a cleaver on the race of the Einstein Telescope called to beat the tough and now advanced competition from Germany, Belgium and Holland in the contest for the great cosmic laboratory. The main road, if there were no obvious ambiguities between the palaces of Rome, would be that of revoking the Draghi decree. The reasons that would justify the departure of wind power would not be few, if there weren't the fear, even of the government in office, of hurting the susceptibility of the past prime minister. After all, however, the crossroads are in the facts: either the Gomoretta wind project will stop forever or there is the risk of stopping the Einstein Telescope project forever. There are no alternatives. The rumors that would see the government engaged in verifying the contextual feasibility of the two projects, one above the other, are without a port. Such a hypothesis would excommunicate in one fell swoop all that scientists from half of Europe have said and written about the very serious interference of wind farms on gravitational waves. Certainly it would be inexplicable, for the right-thinking, the insistence on a wind farm placed right on the head of Sos Enattos putting the heart of the Einstein Telescope at risk.

Mysterious sale

There is a reason, however, that most of all should induce the State to make a sudden reverse with respect to that wind project on the peaks of Gomoretta. "State", understood as public institutions that cannot in any way favor speculation and private business with their own acts. That operation sanctioned between July and December of last year, the sale of a project rejected by everyone, brought down a boulder as big as Mont'Albo on that wind project. In fact, there is more to that ten million euro transaction, paid a few days after Mario Draghi's approval of the project with an ad hoc decree. There are names and companies, multinational businesses that allow us to understand that a financial-wind risk worthy of the worst business-speculative "soap operas" is being consumed every day on the head of the island and of Barbagia.

Documents and swirls

In this case, that of the Gomoretta project, documents emerge, all in our possession, which show that there is a first link between the old ownership of Siemens Gamesa and the new one. The name is known within the five years of systematic rejection of the project. This is Gianluca Mercurio. It is he who on December 5, 2018 was written as "Dott.Ing." the wind project to be presented to the municipalities of Bitti and Orune complete with proposals for gifts (nobly defined compensations) in exchange for the green light from the administrations for those gigantic wind turbines on the Gomoretta plateau. It's always him, Gianluca Mercurio, again in December five years ago, as technical manager of the order on behalf of Simens Gamesa Renewables Energy Italia, who proposes to the mayors the alms of 130 thousand euros a year, for those 13 shovels , and 75 thousand euros for the period in which the incentive would no longer have been provided.

The covert operation

When mister Mercurio, born in Catanzaro in 1977, went to the notary to set up the SPV Parco Eolico Maestrale, the company that will buy the Gomoretta wind project for ten million euros, first rejected and then decreed by Mario Draghi, it was February 17, 2022 At that moment, even the hypothesis of a miracle was ruled out. He goes to the notary in company, with 30,000 euros, not his own. With him are Mccutecheon Finlay and Hernandez del Teso Angel. The first is director of Onshore Renewables for Europe, of the SSE Renewables group, a British multinational that obviously deals with wind power. The second is the director of development for southern Europe of the same Anglo-Saxon multinational.

Anglo-Spanish coup

Basically, with a single blow, the British took home two key men from Siemens Gamesa, Mercurio and Hernandez del Teso Angel, but they also acquired Gomoretta's project, it is not known with whose guarantee. There is, however, one last detail: the new company that has purchased the hypothetical wind turbines of Bitti has a fully paid-up capital of thirty thousand euros. They belong, according to shareholding records, to another Spanish company, Sistemas Energeticos Carril SL, in the Parque Tecnologico de Bizkaia. Ironically, however, this company would also be owned by Siemens Gamesa. In practice, the Spaniards first planned the wind invasion of Gomoretta, then sold it to their former men, who in the meantime had become representatives of an English company, SSE Renewables, whose capital, however, would remain in the same Iberian hands. A corporate vortex to return to the starting point. The unthinking come to hypothesize that those ten million, sanctioned by the Anglo-Spanish sale, could be the claim for damages if someone dares to stop them.

Limburg smiles

Between Spaniards, English and incentive seekers, Sardinia is, therefore, surrounded. Meanwhile, however, in the Limburg triangle, between Germany, Holland and Belgium, operations are proceeding at full speed: the goal is clear, to blow the Einstein Telescope away from Sardinia. And if in the heart of Europe the competitor shipyard is advancing at a rapid pace, on the Nuraghi Island business, that of the lords of the wind, will take care of the scientific goal.

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