Converted on the road to Saccargia, as befits the oilmen of the sun and wind. They don't care about the ancient Basilica and that infinite expanse of Nuragic monuments that surround it, vile money, translated into incentives with many zeros, comes first for these gentlemen. It is no coincidence that that open-air museum, between Logudoro and Meilogu, is today the favorite target of the new cheap consumers of landscapes and history.
No intuition
They didn't get there because of a wind or photovoltaic intuition, they simply chose to devastate that proscenium because a stone's throw from that bell tower "chiseled" of black and white stones, in the territory of Codrongianus, Terna, the electrical arm of the State, decided to "plant" batteries and transformers, just to make Sardinia even more of an energy colony of Rome. In theory a "serial accumulator" of renewable energy, built on a surface equal to 33 football fields, all dedicated to energy storage.
“Magnet” battery
A sort of “magnet” for those who wanted to be sure of pocketing incentives and stellar earnings from the wind and sun. The fact that that “battery” was built a stone’s throw from Saccargia did the rest: to save on connection networks and transformers, the “oil companies” and others, decided to surround that area full of history and landscapes. The numbers do not fully tell the story of the devastation that risks being consumed on that thousand-year horizon, but they are an inescapable photograph of the devastation that looms. The wind farms proposed around that monumental oasis are seven, for a total of 87 cyclopean blades 200 meters high each, for a good 480 megawatts of electrical power, almost as much as the Fiumesanto power plant, all between Ploaghe, Nulvi, Osilo and Codrongianus. A barbaric “descent” aimed at devastating monumental landscapes, cultural and archaeological assets, despite the contrary opinions of Ministries and Superintendence.
Shock photo insertions
Just scroll through those thousands of pages to realize that most of the time the responsible bodies are forced to ask for the crucial document of the "photo insertions" two or three times, the so-called "rendering", which allows, through different observation points, to simulate the "visibility" of those blades on the Nuragic or landscape proscenium. The result is simply disarming. The images are eloquent as "punches" in the face. The description of the "proof" is a caption that ignores the nuraghi in the foreground, treated like an unaware pile of stones.
Oilmen of the wind
Among the “new wind slicers” in the hermitage of Saccargia there is everything and more, from the oilmen of Erg, the historic Edoardo Raffineria Garrone, to Repsol, the Spanish public multinational energy and petrochemical company. The first, Erg, is the protagonist of a real state gratification: the Draghi Government, despite all the opposition and even the contrary judgments of the TAR and the Council of State, on that devastating project, has reiterated “the prevalence” of renewables over landscape and cultural heritage by approving for the umpteenth time that “strengthening” project, among other things also permitted by the useless regional moratorium.
On Saccargia giant shovels
A plan to replace the old blades, 50 meters high, wanted and approved in the early 2000s by the Municipalities of Nulvi and Ploaghe, authorized by various Superintendencies, and which had in any case been removed from the ridge in front of the Basilica. To replace them now there will be latest-generation wind generators 200 meters high, devastating on the Saccargia proscenium. Although the project was "gratified" by the pass of Draghi & company, the Region could now, in light of the opposition expressed in past years, not issue the sole authorization of regional competence, justifying it with the opinions formally expressed by the Sardinian offices. A decision that will be a real test of the real intentions of Viale Trento on projects like this capable of "irremediably" devastating an immense historical and landscape heritage. To date, however, the Regional Council has not adopted any act to block that project, abstaining from a clear direction for the denial of that authorization.
One million users
On that ridge of Saccargia, now, with the code name of “Marte srl”, Enel appears directly, which would like to pierce the landscape with 8 wind monsters of 200 meters each. In addition to the wind plans, there are photovoltaic and agrivoltaic plans that surround the entire area. The projects presented exceed 526 megawatts, equal to 2000 hectares of panels.
Industrial landscape
In short, from a historical landscape to an industrial landscape. Last note: the sum of the megawatts of photovoltaic and wind energy leads to an electrical power of over 1000 megawatts, the same amount needed to provide energy to almost a million users. Nulvi, Ploaghe and Codrongianus, put together, however, do not even exceed 9 thousand inhabitants.
