Energy colonialism, the cry of the independentists in Porto Torres: «Let's expropriate the plants»
The appeal launched from the foot of a large wind turbine: "We need a plan that brings benefits to all Sardinians"Video di Mariangela Pala
"Sun, wind and water are our oil and our Sardinian people must be put in a position to draw energy from them and with the means they deem appropriate, according to their own energy plan". This is what the independentist of Sardigna Natzione, Bustianu Cumpostu, said, speaking on the hill of Monte Rosè, under a large wind turbine in front of the industrial area of Porto Torres, for an action against colonialism and energy speculation.
A protest that saw the participation of representatives of Sardigna Natzione, as well as Entula and Unioni Giovines Comunistos (Uni. G.Com.), represented by Bustianu Cumpostu, Pierluigi Caria and Samuele Spiga. They are asking for the expropriation by the Sardinian people of the wind farms already built and in production, owned by large multinationals and speculative companies from all over the world, also using the provisions of the statute, as already proposed by several technicians and popular committees, to obtain an energy transition that goes against colonial politics.
"We are not Don Quixotes fighting against windmills," said Caria, representative of the Entula group, "but Sardinians who are fighting for their nation and who want to allow it a better future than what it has suffered in the past." For the very young Danilo Caredda, 19 years old representative of Uni.G.Com. "as Sardinian youth we share this battle, because we are not against the evolution of technologies and new ways of producing energy, but we are here to claim a way of producing electricity that belongs to the Sardinians."
And again: "Just as we have suffered the felling of forests, mining exploitation and petrochemical industrialization, now they want to force us to passively suffer a new colonization, but this time we are capable of opposing it". Hence the need for a Sardinian Energy Plan that determines the needs of the Island and entrusts a Public Body with the task of satisfying them, through Fer- Renewable Energy Sources - plants to be installed on already waterproofed surfaces and through integrated and diversified systems for accumulating the energy produced.
