There will be history, that charge of rebellion and courage that was Pratobello, there will be the future, that of a people marching to defend their land and plan their own development. There will be young people and old people, there will be no party flags, but only one banner, that of the Sardinian People. It is useless to label today or the 210 thousand signatures with the trappings or the old canons of politics, the one that divides and shares. In those "treasure chests" of consciences and signatures that this morning will cross via Roma, in the heart of Cagliari, to scale the Regional Council Building, there is no longer just a proposed law of popular initiative. It would be reductive to think so, a huge mistake to consider those signatures as a bureaucratic fact.

Granite consciousness

The attempts to diminish the importance of this peaceful “rebellion”, which matured in the hottest August in every corner of the Island, will be shattered by the awakened and granite awareness of a people who do not even want to hear of seeing the landscape of their land gutted or attacked, by the sound of wind turbines or infinite silicon grills, every symbol of its archaic history. In that mountain of signatures there is much more than a law of popular initiative: there is a widespread, tangible and palpable feeling of a Sardinian community that feels the weight of the speculative aggression that concretely looms over the Island.

Enough procrastination

A common feeling that does not accept subterfuge or bows, that rejects the “ modus operandi” of institutions that procrastinate or slumber just to favor the “coup” of fixers and speculators. In those forms spontaneously signed by Sardinians lined up in the town halls there is a movement of ideal and cultural rebellion, a civil conscience that has resurfaced impetuously with the explicit and declared aim of rejecting the new speculators and building a new future of energy independence for Sardinia. A message echoed in the symbolic places of this identity resistance anchored today more than ever to those exclusive landscapes of this Island, from that universal heritage of the ancient Nuragic Civilization to that Creation that has made Sardinia unique and unrepeatable.

Inviolable landscape

If there is an indelible and impregnable result that stands out as a symbol of this mobilization, which has already become a page of history, it is precisely the widespread feeling of a people who perceive their environment and its landscapes as an unrepeatable and non-sacrificable asset. A positive, cultural and identity-based rebellion, which has had the courage to open eyes and awaken consciences to make known what is at risk of happening to the heads of Sardinia and the Sardinians.

Inform to know

An arduous task that the newspapers of the “L'Unione Sarda” Publishing Group have carried out since the first outbreak of this unusual aggression against Sardinia, denouncing with investigations and in-depth analyses, since the first disastrous Draghi Decree, 8 November 2021, the dangers and risks that loomed in every corner of the Island. A relentless commitment to reveal under-the-table projects and architects, multinationals behind the scenes, businesses and fixers busy plundering lands and promontories, ridges and hills in every corner of this land. The popular reaction, to the advance of hundreds of projects, published and analyzed in our daily newspaper, has been spontaneous and impressive, between concern and anguish, anger and determination.

Complicit governments

In the meantime, a chain of measures emerged, drawn up by the governments in office that have followed one another in recent years, up to the Draghi Decree "dedicated" exclusively to Sardinia, March 29, 2022, with which the total "sacking" of the Island was decided. It was a constant and daily action of denunciation of what was maturing in the Palaces of Rome, between silences and omissions consumed on Sardinian soil, to open a decisive gap in the attention of the Sardinians towards an assault that seemed destined to scar the Island in total silence. The rest was done by years in the journalistic trenches to unmask the plans of international lobbies and powerful and unreachable investment banks, up to the regulatory analyses to identify the main road to block the state complicity engaged as never before in the destruction of the identity "Landscape" of Sardinia.

The turning point of Pratobello

When it was now clear that the new regional legislature, like the previous one, would not produce anything concrete in the fight against the speculative assault, it was decided to take action. In the heart of Sardinia, in the meetings between Committees and Mayors, most often in the sheepfolds between Orgosolo and Oliena, the new “Pratobello '24” matured, a popular initiative bill destined to go down in history as the most impressive legislative mobilization ever implemented in Sardinia, without equal in Italy.

Servitude of yesterday and today

From those pastures between Orgosolo and Fonni, which 55 years ago the Palaces of Rome had decided to militarily occupy with bayonets and heavy vehicles, to the new energy easements it is a short step. Now the threat is counted in 3,000 land-based wind turbines 200 meters high that the lords of the wind would like to stick everywhere, from north to south of the island, in 1,500 wind generators, 300 meters high, to be "slapped" in the middle of the sea with a view of the Costa Smeralda or the Golfo degli Angeli, in front of Capo Caccia or the Island of Carloforte. Not to mention, then, the 70,000 hectares of photovoltaic panels to be "flattened" on agricultural fields, devastating land and generating a "grill effect" capable of altering the environmental liveability of entire portions of Sardinia. In short, there was no more time to waste.

The modern revolt

In the country of murals, it is late July when, between fears and hopes, it was decided to tackle the “modern” Pratobello, the new fight of the Sardinians against the new impositions of the State, this time the energy-speculative servitudes. Pasquale Mereu, Mayor of Orgosolo, a Sardinian at heart, frank and indomitable, is the one who breaks the deadlock. He is the one who accepts the invitation of the common people and the Committees: react, ban speculation, plan an energy-independent Sardinia. This is how “la Pratobello” was born. The text does not allow subterfuge: it traces a strong and clear path, decisive and without hesitation, the only one capable of blocking without appeal the invasion of wind turbines and expanses of photovoltaic panels ready to devastate forever the proscenium of Orgosolo and Gennargentu, Marmilla, Logudoro, Campidano, Montiferru, Planargia and Sulcis.

The constitutional pillar

The essential pillar of the “Pratobello” law is the most solid of the “Sardinian Constitution”: the primary competence of the Sardinian Region in “urban planning” matters. A no-frills approach, without further and damaging waste of time, without leaks for the lords of the shovels and panels. A law with immediate effect, which cancels everything that is transitory, annihilating sneaky loopholes for nefarious speculation. A rule that has become more urgent than ever, capable of immediately restoring to the Region its legislative “power” in the “Government of the Territory”, a primary matter entrusted to Sardinia through art.3 letter “f” of the Sardinian Statute, the only matter that the Constitutional Court, even in the latest ruling of 7 June, has deemed unassailable, despite the appeal, lost, proposed by Palazzo Chigi. The challenge arrives this morning in the Regional Council: the Pratobello Law with its load of 210,000 signatures aims to give back to Sardinia the power to decide on the "government of the territory", proposing innovative solutions, such as the Hydrogen Island to pursue the total energy "independence" of the Island. It is not a No to renewable energy, but the exact opposite, with the direct management by the Sardinians of that resource, prohibiting speculation and the devastation of the Island of Nuraghi, that of the Sardinians.

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