The missiles and bombs stuck on the black rock of Capo Teulada, the extreme tip of Sardinia towards North Africa, were not enough. Even raids from the ground and from the air weren't enough. In that forbidden hermitage, among the most exclusive beaches of the Sardinian coast, after all, armies from half the world have landed. Aircraft carriers and corvettes, submarines and fighter jets. It cannot be said that the Delta Peninsula, in the 65 years of military occupation, has not seen any color. According to the Public Prosecutor of Cagliari, which investigates for environmental disaster, 686,000 heavy artillery, rockets and anti-tank missiles were exploded in that strip of land from 2010 to 2016, equal to 556 tons of war material. And yet, those lands and inlets of the sea that have been subtracted, perhaps forever, from tourist development, have not yet seen everything. The lords of the wind, Americans and Swiss, will make the assault on that turquoise sea without return. This time around, however, the invasion will be unprecedented. The wind multinationals will get their hands on that stretch of water, until now of exclusive military domain, forbidden to boats and tourists, vacationers and fishermen. Not just any landing, but a real assault devised with the ruthlessness that not even the armed raids had managed to deploy with such impetuousness. It is not a random point that the two foreign wind giants chose.

From Bocche to Zafferano

After having rejected the Strait of Bonifacio, according to the analysis plans considered the windiest in Sardinia, but too sensitive on the environmental level, the aims of the deep-sea turbiners have moved to the south of the island. A technical and eloquent observation slips indifferently on the technical reports of the projects just presented: according to the designers, the area chosen for driving the wind turbines into the seabed does not disturb the military areas. Indeed, according to a suffused evaluation of merit, that stretch of water is already in fact compromised, we might as well place a lot of gigantic wind turbines. The papers, until now classified in the procedures of the Ministry of Infrastructures, are a river in flood, complete with maps and data, projects and occupation of gigantic water spaces, as if there was no tomorrow for those territories. The vastness of the wind occupation project, to be added to the military one, is unequivocal: the coastal front concerned, to remain only at the cartographic borders, goes from Sant'Antioco to what the lords of the wind define as the "Municipality" of Santa Margherita di Pula , ignoring that it is, instead, a fraction of the Municipality of Pula. When they write it in the transmission of the documents to the Cagliari Harbor Master's Office, they do not have the slightest idea that that project is about to impact one of the most exclusive coasts of Sardinia.

Goodbye tourism and pleasure

What is certain is that, if that wind landing plan presented to the state offices were to materialize, the tourist and pleasure boating dream of that area will remain a real chimera for a long time, perhaps forever. The mere fact of making a mistake in the indications of the Municipalities projected on this aeolian invasion speaks volumes about how much these gentlemen consider the Sardinian coast a land of conquest. A promised land for offshore business, full stop. The grandeur of the wind landing has an established cliché. The first miraculous promise they tell you is disgusting: there will be thousands of jobs.

The barter of the fake job

As if to barter a longed-for hope of work for the "concession" of the landscape and environmental asset, not to mention the harmful consequences on Sardinia's electricity system. They repeat it wherever they go, just see the press conferences of the same gentlemen, and ladies, recently held in Puglia. The same flatterers, those of Falck, the same reassurances for everyone: for them there is no impact on the coast, the 250/300 meter blades, they say, are not even seen.

The Apulian revolt

Too bad that not even a Mayor of the boot heel believed him. All against it, they don't even want to hear about forever marring their coasts. The Apulian revolt is total, from the Region to the last of the associations. It may also be for what the former Italian steelmakers first and the Americans of JP Morgan now, have decided to diversify projects and locations, passing, without hesitation, from Puglia to Sardinia, using the same "sentiment" of military occupation. On the chosen side, the one in front of the NATO joint military polygon of Teulada, they feel protected.

Wind bombing

Moreover, if in those parts they "accepted" to be bombed, in no uncertain terms, from the ground and from the air, what will it be to have an army of wind turbines placed in single file in the middle of the crystalline waters in front of Cala Zafferano or Porto Tramatzu? And so they did. The first to dare were those of Repower, based in no less than the lagoon, between Venice and Mestre, but with the holding's capital all in Switzerland. They took it safe: they positioned their wind farm a little further off the sea boundary line of the military polygon. The feasibility, according to the proponents, is practicable "thanks to their location several kilometers from the coast".

No Alps and Lagoon

The Swiss, after having originally discarded the positioning of the wind turbines on the Alps and on the waters of the Venetian lagoon, concentrated directly on the projection of the monumental white dunes of Porto Pino into the sea. In fact, the project envisages the offshore installation of 33 wind turbines of 15 megawatts each. In all, they plan to generate a power of 495 megawatts, all to be sent directly to Sicily, to power Italy in green. But if the Swiss of Repower Renewable SpA have taken a safety margin not to cross warships, missiles and mortars, the Nora 1 project, the Italian-Spanish-American and even Russian one, has chosen to challenge all the pitfalls of the military polygon.

The Nora 1 project

In fact, just behind the border line of the most devastating settlement in warmongering Italy, they have positioned a wind farm with impressive numbers: 53 wind turbines for an energy potential of 795 megawatts. A real wall as high as 100 floors of a skyscraper, between 250/300 meters high, with rotating blades that climb beyond the horizon of the same forbidden peninsula, the one where humans will no longer be able to set foot to way of pollution with no return. Also in this case the multinational descent was put in black and white by the Government of Rome. They are the tenants of Palazzo Chigi who urged the lords of the wind to focus on Sardinia, ready to undergo, according to a common feeling, every kind of invasion, let alone the charm of the giants of world finance willing to do anything to drain a river in flood of money that the palaces around the Colosseum promise to those who storm the seas and lands of Sardinia. Gogò incentives just increased by the government that promises to properly replenish the earnings of the lords of the wind. In this context, the first economic elements of the investments that these companies created ad hoc for this wind power take-off plan to put in place also emerge.

A sea of money

To give an idea of how much they plan to spend on the construction of these wind "parks", according to the documents in our possession, each shovel placed in the middle of the sea should cost 26 million euros. In this context, for the 33 Swiss blades in front of Capo Teulada, the cost should be 858 million euros, which becomes one billion and 286 million euros for electrical substations and connection cables. The lords of the former Falck will spend even more. For them the investment will be for the sea shovels alone of one billion and 380 million euros, plus another 650 million of electric tinsel. Don't worry: gentlemen have no money problems. On the stock exchange they declared that their investments in wind power will earn them a 50% return. More than the wartime war industry profits.

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