Siege of the Costa Smeralda, wind turbines also in Caprera

As if they wanted to drive oil wells in the middle of the atolls of the Maldives or in the crystal clear waters of the Seychelles Island. Devastating the Costa Smeralda with hundreds of gigantic wind turbines to be placed in the middle of the turquoise sea is like exchanging the paradise of Sardinia with the narrowest industrial coast of the northern European seas. Yet the assault is violent, coordinated and at a high level. It does not matter if we are talking about one of the most celebrated places by the world jet set, one of the most impressive environmental tourist business cards on the island. This morning the Olbia Harbor Master's Office will open the casket on the latest assault announced yesterday by our investigation into the wind invasion of the Costa Smeralda.

The assault on Porto Cervo

Papers still classified, for a project of which, however, we have already anticipated the essential data, starting with those 210 wind turbines to be placed in the sea in front of Loiri Porto San Paolo, Olbia, Golfo Aranci, Arzachena, Palau and La Maddalena. A number of wind turbines that is unprecedented in the projects presented both in Italy and in Europe, all this to mean that these gentlemen are only interested in the gusts of mistral recorded by the wind atlas which marks that area as one of the most prolific. If you add up the two projects, that of “Tibula Energia”, from Siniscola to Posada, passing through Budoni, up to Olbia, with that of Zeffiro Wind, in the heart of the Costa Smeralda, the wind turbines touch the threshold of three hundred blades. For now, the abacus stops at 275 blades of almost three hundred meters in height each, like a 90-story skyscraper.

The wind of Garibaldi

The siege, however, would not be over: according to authoritative sources at the Olbia Harbor Master's Office, yet another wind invasion project was presented in the last few hours. The details of this new assault are still fragmentary, but it is known that this time it would revolve around the island of Caprera. For the lords of the wind I lack a minimum of respect for the Hero of the Two Worlds, that Giuseppe Garibaldi who chose that hermitage of peace as his final resting place. To advance the new checkmate on the Sardinian sea would be a company we already dealt with two years ago: the “Nurex Wind Power”. The sharecropping partners are said to be two other companies, "Nicetechnology Srl" and "7 Seas Wind Power Srl", two satellites that revolve around Giuseppe Gino Carnevale who claims to be the "first" tamer of the wind in the sea. The capital paid is from the coconut kiosk on the beach: 5 thousand euros for each of the two shareholders. In reality, however, Carnival is considered to all intents and purposes the most active interceptor of wind business. Behind him, obviously, there are companies ready to enter the field if these ambushes in the Sardinian sea have a minimum glimmer of materialization.

The wind couple

Obviously, “Nurax Wind Power” also has nothing to do with Sardinia, if not the name usurped from the most ancient civilization. Certainly the company is closely linked with the one that presented the assault project in front of the Island of Carloforte, between Porto Flavia, Masua and Portoscuso. Behind this umpteenth assault on northern Sardinia, after the seven fielded in the southern seas of the island, there is a dense intertwining of Chinese boxes all linked to Giuseppe Gino Carnevale and Luigi Severini, the engineer-image of the consortium. They are the ones who planted the first wind turbine in the Italian sea, in that devastated stretch of coast of Taranto, in Puglia. The two meet everywhere, including the insignificant "srl" that would have risked the presentation of the wind project in front of Garibaldi's home. With them in the shareholding structure there is also Mr. Botha Theo Nicholas, British citizenship but with his domicile even in Auckland, New Zealand.

Behind the blades

Today, meanwhile, the cards of the "Zefiro Wind" project presented in the heart of the tourist paradise invented sixty years ago by Prince Aga Khan Karim will be unveiled. Presented by "Stantec SpA", a foreign team with impressive links with high energy spheres Italian companies, starting with the two state giants, Enel and Eni. In the energy undergrowth it is known that for some months there has been a real working group with the specific intent of planning the climb to the wind energy incentives , starting from the offshore.

The round table

About ten large companies, including Eni and Enel, are part of this elitist "round table". To coordinate the table is coincidentally "Stantec", the company of energy giants, those who now would like to recycle themselves with wind turbines at sea and billionaire incentives. The company registered in the Segrate headquarters in Milan, but governed by shareholders between England and the United States, was not limited, however, to the role of business adviser on the open sea. According to the documents in our possession, "Stantec" would have a contract signed in 2019 directly with Enel Green Power for the "preparation of feasibility studies, design and" permitting "in Italy for the construction of new plants powered by renewable sources" . It is that English term, “ permitting ”, or dealing with permits, that arouses more than one suspicion. And it is also Enel Green Power to sign a new agreement with Stantec in 2021 for the preparation of environmental impact studies related to the construction of renewable plants in Italy. The objective of the energy majors has always been to have service companies exhibit in order to avoid taking on the burden of disputes on the projects presented.

Nothing in Sardinia

The only certain fact is that all these wind farms at sea, and beyond, destined to irreparably devastate the paradise of the Costa Smeralda, will have no use for Sardinia and the Sardinians. Through the new cable that Terna would like to build, the Tyrrhenian Link, that energy will be entirely conveyed to Sicily, Campania and the rest of Italy. There will be nothing left on the Island, having installed much more energy than it consumes. The landscape, however, the exclusive one that made Sardinia discover the world, will be irremediably wounded. Wind turbines will remain everywhere, even in the turquoise waters of the Costa Smeralda.