The ministry rejects the maxi wind farm of Bitti: stop at the blades of over 200 meters
"Environmental incompatibility": the verdict on the plant that would have disturbed the gigantic investment of the Einstein Telescope in the Lula mine
The Ministry of Ecological Transition says no to the maxi wind farm in Mamone, between Bitti , Onani and Buddusò. The company Wpd Piano d'Ertilia Srl, controlled by Wpd Italia, in turn an emanation of the German giant Wpd Group, wanted to build 15 turbines that would have to turn attached to towers "with an indicative height of 149 meters". Colossi that, according to the project, would have generated 3.36 MW of electricity each, for a total of over 50.
They would. Because late Wednesday evening, two years after the project was filed, the negative verdict came from Mite (Directorate General for Environmental Assessments) and the Ministry of Culture, office of the Special Superintendence for the Pnrr.
The provision is concise, just three pages. But the rejection is sound. The general managers Luigi Nocco and Luigi la Rocca, who signed it, retrace the rain of opposition that has come against the project. If you want to use hyperbola, it seems that those gigantic blades (tower of about 150 meters and rotors of 158 meters in diameter, for a total that breaks through 200), to be placed among "imposing masses of granite rocks emerging within which wide deep valleys ”, appealed only to the proponents.
The reassurances of the company were not enough, which in the preliminary reports spoke of a "positive impact on the strategic action to combat greenhouse gas emissions and on air quality".
And he added that "the initiative has significant repercussions and opportunities of a socio-economic nature in favor of companies operating in the area".
The Region, the Ministry of Culture, the municipalities, the ministerial technical evaluation commission and associations opposed it.
And, last but not least, the Infn (National Institute of Nuclear Physics) had also said no . Because, the opinion reads, “the area where the wind farm would be located is a candidate site to host the future Einstein Telescope gravitational wave observatory”. The ear of the universe that could be installed inside the Sos Enattos mine in Lula. This project is worth one and a half billion euros. Penny plus, cent minus. The observation of gravitational waves requires absolute silence. And the hypothesis of a research work of this kind, for the center of Sardinia, could not be swept away by a blow from the shovel.
"A negative environmental compatibility judgment is expressed for the" project of a wind farm consisting of 15 turbines with a power of 4.2 MW each, for a total power of 50.4 MW, located in the municipalities of Bitti (NU) and Buddusò (SS) in the locality of Mamone ”, it was decided. Now the company can appeal. And try, again, the assault on the Bitti mountains.
