More than a moratorium, a flop, resounding and without appeal. According to the law, number 5 of last July 4, which was supposed to stop the speculative devastation on the Island of the sun and the wind, the collapse is without half measures. It was supposed to "avoid", according to article one, "the irreversibility of the impacts on the regional territory deriving from the activities of construction, installation or start-up of plants for the production and accumulation of electrical energy".

It doesn't block anything

He is not averting anything. The wind projects that could have been blocked, from Monte Linas to Marganai, from Villacidro to Domusnovas, since the blades had not yet been raised, had free rein. The endless expanses of "Chinese batteries" did not stop for a moment, not even in front of the "black craters" that deny information on cancer risk and genetic damage. If the devastation materializes everywhere, from the slopes of Limbara to those of Monte Arcosu, in the Palaces of Rome they have trashed the moratorium law even before the examination of next December 11th by the Constitutional Court. At the Ministry of the Environment they consider it as a useless propaganda stunt, without any effect.

Full speed ahead

They didn't even write it, they simply continued to train projects with both hands, as if nothing had happened. The map of the debacle of a law without real prohibitions is written down in black and white in the ministerial protocol. The picture that emerges leaves no room for doubt: the wind and photovoltaic projects that concern Sardinia seem to "fly" precisely because of the push of the moratorium, which seems to have unleashed an effect opposite to that declared. Since the day of its approval by the Regional Council, in the offices of Rome, they have been working hard to get the authorization procedures moving. The procedural "stages" in the Capital are essentially two: the administrative verification of the admissibility of the project and the notice for public observations-oppositions. In both cases, according to the claims of Viale Trento, the moratorium should have blocked both: however, this did not happen.

78 projects in 4 months

Indeed, the procedural rush has triggered the abbreviated terms of publication, in some cases just 15 days to send counter-arguments on the proposed plants. All this has brought into play an unprecedented amount of projects: from July 5, the date the moratorium came into force, to today, the Ministry has put into motion a whopping 78 projects, including wind and photovoltaic, for a total of 4,906 megawatts.

Double signature

A very significant amount if we consider that in just four months, almost 80% of the “minimum” quota assigned, “arbitrarily”, by the decree on suitable areas to Sardinia have been subjected to public evaluation, and for the most part already concluded. The ratio is quickly made: 4,906 megawatts in an advanced procedural state sent for approval in just four months, against the minimum impositions of 6,200 megawatts foreseen by the Pichetto-Todde decree, a provision with two signatures considering that the text has had the green light and the Agreement of the Sardinian Region also as the leader of the Regions on renewables.

The Autumn Coup

The data emerging from the ministerial report are disarming: among the projects that have reached the publication stage, 48 projects are photovoltaic plants, for a total of 2,504 megawatts of power.

Goodbye soil

This is an occupation of land, in many cases agricultural land, destined to exceed 7,500 hectares, a real environmental devastation with impacts not only on the landscape, but also more serious, starting from the repercussions on the hydrogeological level with the creation of very serious micro-climatic alterations for areas substantially removed from water and air. No less important is the impact on the landscape of the wind projects that have reached the procedural level of publication for observations. In this case, the numbers of the procedural progress of the Ministry record 30, yes thirty, projects for wind farms for a planned power of 2,400 megawatts, essentially over 400 blades to be positioned between ridges and monuments around Sardinia.

Speculative rush

The fact that the speculative rush has not suffered any kind of halt can be deduced from the dates of the projects, including those that have just been cleared by the administrative examination to end up in the "praetorian" register of the offices in Rome.

Mandas, Bultei & Gonnos

Just yesterday, two wind projects were published for the final phase: the first with a power of 45 mW with 9 wind turbines to be installed in the "Molimentos" area in the Municipality of Bultei; the second with a power of 50.4 mW with 7 blades destined to invade the hills of Mandas and Gesico. On the same day, to make sure we didn't miss anything, also a photovoltaic project: the "Gonnos-Mar", with a planned power of 34.49 mW, all in the territory of Gonnosfanadiga.

Unarmed Island

Sardinia, therefore, presents itself to yet another speculative assault totally unarmed, with a moratorium law incapable of any effectiveness, both in terms of implementation and authorization. The combined provisions of the assault on the Island are deployed with heavy "ammunition" and "weapons": all the projects presented to the Ministry are moving forward without size limits; the Commissions that must quickly and with priority evaluate the projects with a minimum capacity of 75 megawatts for wind power and 50 for photovoltaic are already at work; the Presidency of the Council of Ministers must close the game for those projects where there is a negative, non-binding opinion from the Ministry of Culture. From now until the end of the year it is conceivable that Rome will complete a significant part of the speculative plan to the detriment of the Island, with a Region incapable of taking clear and decisive legislative initiatives.

The Eligible Areas Scam

Moreover, the bill on suitable areas, which is starting its process in the Regional Council, will do nothing but endorse the speculative plans of fixers and multinationals. Everyone knows it: that text of law is based on the quicksand of the Draghi decree. Any adjustment, any modification will be useless given the legislative framework on which it is based. Moreover, paragraph seven of article 20 of the Decree of the Banker of Europe is all too clear: "Areas not included among the suitable areas cannot be declared unsuitable for the installation of renewable energy production plants ." In practice, without an urban planning provision, such as that provided for in the Pratobello Law, based on a constitutional provision such as article 3, letter "f" of the Sardinian Statute, it will be impossible to stem the devastation of the Island. Time is running out. Sardinia, today more than ever, risks capitulating. Speculators are preparing the final sack.

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