Wind power on land (on-shore) and at sea (off-shore). And also photovoltaic. There is data, which comes from Terna (responsible for receiving and instructing the procedures for connection to the electricity grid for all plants), to show how much Sardinia is in the sights of companies with few scruples: the value of the destruction of the environment, the financial advantage for speculators of energy produced by the sun and wind amounts to 122 billion. Numbers that describe the severity of the attack on the island and the urgency of stopping it.
This was highlighted by the editor of L'Unione Sarda Sergio Zuncheddu in recent days during the forum “Insularity is landscape & environment” in the “Giorgio Pisano” room in Cagliari. An intervention, his, which is forcefully back in the news after two ships landed in the industrial port of Oristano loaded with dozens of gigantic wind turbines which will have to be installed in Sardinia. Cyclopean dimensions, for a single system. But enough to give an idea of the devastating impact on the landscape.
The meeting, conducted and moderated by Maria Antonietta Mongiu and Rita Dedola, president and member of the scientific committee "Insularity in the Constitution", had a common denominator: concern for the future and the need to act against energy speculation which heavily influences the development of the island. There is also data on the value of the incentives that the wind lords could collect if the projects presented were to get the green light: «They could collect over 8 billion euros in a year, a very high figure if we consider that the Region's budget amounts to around 9 billion", underlined Sergio Zuncheddu.
The entrepreneur added that «the landscape is a unique economic and identity asset and that the requests for the construction of photovoltaic systems in Sardinia affect an area of over 68 thousand hectares equal to 86,212 football fields. For offshore wind, with a total power of 17,820 megawatts, the aim is to build 1188 blades, over 300 meters high". In terms of wind farms to be placed on the mainland, the risk is that of witnessing a real invasion of blades (2479 with a height of 200 metres) capable of ruining the Sardinian landscape forever. «All this», added the editor of L'Unione Sarda, «to produce 57 thousand megawatts of energy capable of satisfying the needs of over 50 million people. Once again the island would be exploited to produce energy to be used mostly in other contexts."
(Unioneonline)