Wind ambush with 210 blades in the sea of the Costa Smeralda

An unprecedented blitz. An ambush in the heart of the Costa Smeralda planned with the coldness of a killer, the unscrupulousness of the most violent colonizers, the high-profile covers of politics and the business world. It is 13 and 48 minutes yesterday, 21 June, when Giovanni Canu, Captain of the Ship, Commander of the Olbia Harbor Master's Office, affixes his digital signature to the sending of the communication to eleven unsuspecting recipients of a message as heavy as a mountain of granite thrown suddenly on the bay of the Costa Smeralda and its surroundings.

State seal

The state symbol, five-pointed star and olive and oak twigs, stamped on the title page, is the seal of a communication that you do not expect even in wartime. Yet the dispatch leaves no margins: the Mayors shall arrange for this notice to be published on the municipal notice board by June 23 next. In practice, by tomorrow morning, six municipalities of Gallura, those further north of Loiri Porto San Paolo, will have to put their hands on the official bulletin board. Not a notice like so many others.

Aeolian epitaph

What the Olbia Harbor Master's Office sent yesterday to the local administrations at the end of the shift is much worse than an epitaph, an obituary without blessing, a death sentence without appeal. At stake is the heart of tourist Sardinia, the emblem of that challenge that sixty years ago Prince Aga Khan Karim had launched to the whole world to transform the paradise of Gallura into the most coveted destination in the whole world: the Costa Smeralda. The municipalities of Olbia, Golfo Aranci, Loiri Porto San Paolo, Arzachena, Palau and La Maddalena receive the message. The chosen area is the “turquoise crown” of the northern sea of the island, already cheered by sailing ships and rich high-end yachts.

De profundis

Together with the Municipalities, just to mark the border of the ambush, the Port Authority also transmits the "de profundis" to the Port Authority of La Maddalena, the Golfo Aranci Maritime District Office, the Porto Rotondo Beach delegation, the Porto Cervo Maritime Office and the Palau Local Office. A stretch of coast that has marked the history of the most flattered and photographed sea in the world. Breathtaking scenery, a skyline that embraces those Strait of Bonifacio with a glance, all wind and indomitable charm. The argument, as the Commander calls it, is contained in a few lines: «Publication notice for the request for the release of a state-owned maritime concession pursuant to art. 36 Cod. Nav., For the construction of an offshore wind power plant called “Zefiro Vento” north of the eastern coast of Sardinia about 20 km from Olbia ». The deadline for the presentation of the objections to the 65-blade "Tibula Energia" project to be placed in the sea from Olbia towards San Teodoro, Posada, Budoni and Siniscola is not yet concluded that the Capitaneria is called upon to publish a new devastating project for a park offshore wind power that is unprecedented in Sardinia, Italy and Europe.

The gamble

The project will be known in detail only in the next few hours, when the thirty-day deadline for presenting the objections to the Costa Smeralda occupation plan will start. The documents we are in possession of, however, allow us to anticipate all the most relevant data of this real ambush on the sea in the north east of Sardinia. First of all the number of wind turbines. The figure is disproportionate: 210 wind turbines, more than triple the project presented for the sea of Gallura and Baronia, south of Olbia. Never had an offshore wind project dared to be so unscrupulous as the one that tomorrow morning will be officially on the register of the Olbia Harbor Master's Office. We are talking about an expected electrical power of 3,150 megawatts, more than double that of the Porto Torres and Portovesme power plants combined. An electricity production entirely destined to be sent to Sicily and Campania, through the Tyrrhenian link connection cable that Terna would like to create to ferry the energy produced by the wind invasion of Sardinia, on land and sea, to the rest of Italy. To put pen to paper the most devastating operation for the most touristic area of the island is a company hitherto unknown to the radar of wind projects: the "Stantec SpA", offices in Segrate, in the famous Palazzo Canova, in the most directional Milan .

Lords of the wind

But with Italy and Sardinia they have little or nothing to do with it. The ownership, in fact, is entirely English, in the hands of "Stantec Europe Limited", a company that holds 100% of the shares of the team that has taken on the burden of challenging the Costa Smeralda, with wind turbines from three hundred meters l 'one, to be placed among yachts, terrestrial paradises, breathtaking inlets and enchanted landscapes between the Strait of Bonifacio and Porto Cervo. The location chosen for this assault is not enough to make the whole thing even more devastating: these wind gentlemen who came from London asked the Harbor Office to occupy a stretch of water with a total surface area of 1,747,501,960 square meters. To translate it without too many numbers, it is almost two billion square meters. The request provides that the paradise of the north east of Sardinia will be occupied for thirty years with 210 blades, each as high as a 90-storey skyscraper.

The puppeteers of the blades

Placed without restraint in the heart of the Costa Smeralda. There is a disturbing question, however, that awaits an answer: who is hiding behind these gentlemen who want to destroy Sardinia with wind turbines? Behind this umpteenth operation there are the giants of energy, those who pull the strings of the assault on the Sardinian sea, from north to south. A chapter still shrouded in the mystery of the state.

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