Two cargo ships loaded with gigantic wind turbines in the port of Oristano: it's controversial

Portuguese flag. Departure port: Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands. Tonnage of 17,121 tons. Name: Uhl Frontier, from the United Heavy Lift GmbH & Co. KG company, giant of colossal sea transport. Landing port: Oristano. Destination of the cargo: unknown at the moment. But the first images were enough to spark the controversy: that cargo transports enormous wind turbines that will be mounted on top of the wind towers of one of the hundreds of plants that will be installed in Sardinia to produce energy destined for half of Italy.

The ship docked this morning at 7. And it attracted attention: the men on the ground, when compared to those gigantic pieces of metal, look like ants.

Then another cargo arrived, the Happy Ranger: 11 thousand tons and flying the Dutch flag. He had the towers on board, the ones that will be driven into the Sardinian soil.

The first to make the landing public was the mayor of Villanovaforru, Maurizio Onnis, who knows a lot about wind energy: with his administration he studied the documents of the projects that affect his territory and opposed it in all the offices when he recognized that the wind turbines would have damaged archaeological assets or the landscape.

Today Onnis writes: «Giant wind turbine rotors have just arrived at the port of Oristano: but do you see how big they are? We chat, we chat, while they do it. And we are watching." Even if the front against speculation (not against renewables) is now increasingly broader.

Enrico Fresu