Mauro Pili

The circumnavigation is now definitively closed. Surrounded, as if the siege had no end. Island to all intents and purposes, complete with a fencing of wind turbines in the sea, just so as not to leave a single passage on the Sardinian coasts, which have always been an exclusive landscape and an enchanted horizon. We return to the exact point where this story of the wind assault had begun, precisely in that place of ancient landing on the Oristano coast. The latest project lands in the stretch of sea between Cabras and Bosa, with a deployment of 34 cyclopean shovels to be “floated” in front of the monument of S'Archittu and at the mouth of the Temo. In recent months it was the Spaniards of the powerful Acciona, now the Germans of Baywa, based in Munich, but with a logistic base in the financial heart of Milan, are sanctioning the multinational invasion.

The German landing

The project is presented by Regolo Rinnovabili, 100% German capital, acting as the father and master of offshore wind power. The German attitude, all and immediately without wasting time, is put down in black and white in the letter sent to the Porto Torres Harbor Office on Christmas Eve. Not only do the "Kraks" ask for the concession of an infinite stretch of water at the gates of Tharros, close to the arch of S'Archittu, but they go so far as to claim "a single authorization request for the construction and operation of an off-shore wind farm for the production of electricity from renewable sources with a power of 510 megawatts», almost as much as the Portovesme or Porto Torres plants. Regolo Rinnovabili, a ten-thousand-euro limited liability company with registered office in Largo Augusto in Milan, where it would pay any taxes generated by the plant located in Sardinia, declares itself, through the lead company Bay/Wa, as «a consolidated economic operator in the sector».

From Bavaria to Pittinurri

It could not be otherwise given the modus operandi with which the Germans, without saying anything to anyone, with the arrogance of doing what we want, push themselves from Bavaria to the sea of Santa Caterina di Pittunurri to flood even that stretch of sea with gigantic wind turbines. The device of the application is peremptory: "The activation of everything governed by the Single Authorization Procedure for off-shore wind farms is requested and the pre-arranged restriction on the expropriation of the areas involved by the connection infrastructures of the production plant is applied" . In other words, we are occupying the sea and "demanding" the expropriation of land areas where cables and power stations can be passed. After all, the wind farm for the wealthy Germans is not a matter that concerns Sardinia, but rather Europe, the one that financed the Italian Pnrr with 209 billion. To be more explicit, it's time to move on to the collection of the round game. The reasoning of the Munich company is a consequence: we have allowed (Germans and northern European countries) an extraordinary allocation for Italy in exchange for your country's commitment to the ecological transition.

Tour match

And now Germans, Norwegians, Danes ect. they ask for a smooth pass to collect an infinite avalanche, at least thirty years, of incentives that the Italians will be forced to pay with stellar bills for the next three decades in exchange for these steel skyscrapers floating in the Sardinian sea. In Sardinia, obviously, not only will there be nothing left, neither money nor energy, given that Terna, the arm of the state that deals with electricity transmission, would like at all costs, for now nearly four billion euros, to create a leash cable, from Sardinia to Sicily, to transport that electricity directly to Italy.

For the Sardinians only devastation

The Sardinians would only have these gigantic wind turbines left. The coast from Bosa to Cabras will, on the other hand, be literally infested with these steel pachyderms with a devastating impact, given that all the landscape and visual evaluation algorithms for this type of plant have demonstrated an impact on the horizon line considered "significant ”. The 34 blades proposed by the Germans would add up to the 32 already planned by the Spaniards of Acciona on that same stretch of sea, almost overlapping, opening up a potential conflict over the same areas requested by the two companies. The Spaniards of the giant Acciona, who manage 90% of the Sardinian purifiers through Abbanoa, had knocked on the harbor office of northern Sardinia six months ago, on 27 June 2022. In this wind-powered invasion of the Sardinian coasts, in fact, the Spaniards had been the first to appear on the western coast, the one that goes from Alghero to Bosa.

Precursor Spaniards

The company "Acciona Energia Globa Italia" in that case had "limited itself" to requesting the «30-year state-owned maritime concession, aimed at the installation and operation of an offshore wind farm for the production of energy through the exploitation of the wind of the Sea of Western Sardinia, in the stretch of water between Capo Marargiu and Capo Mannu».

66 skyscrapers at sea

In all, an area of over 3 million and 261 thousand square meters of water mirrors. In both cases, both Spanish and German, the request concerns a thirty-year concession of water space, for a total of 66 wind turbines for a power of 990 megawatts, practically as much as the two power plants in northern and southern Sardinia combined. For the island, the German one is yet another project presented on the Sardinian coasts which adds to the 17 already presented in the various harbor offices of the island, including the two to be placed in the north-east presented in Civitavecchia where they would be connected despite the location being scheduled in front of the Costa Smeralda. For Sardinia at sea, there are a total of 17 projects (9 plants in the south, 5 in the north-east and 3 in the western part) for the construction of offshore wind farms. In total, over 800 wind turbines would be installed on the Sardinian coast for a total power of almost 15,000 megawatts. A disproportionate power compared to that expected along the entire perimeter of the Italian coasts. A real Amazonian forest in the open sea, with an impressive quantity of wind turbines to be placed in the middle of the Sardinian sea, in the heart of the consolidated routes, from those of cetaceans to those of merchant ships, from yachts to passenger ships.

15 times the expected blades

All elements that should be compared with one datum above all: the Italian renewable energy plans communicated in Brussels envisage a wind power potential of 900 megawatts between now and 2030. It remains not only inexplicable, but even unjustifiable why, despite this prediction, anyone, above all foreigners, is allowed to make indiscriminate attacks on a fundamental and non-transferable asset such as that of the landscape and the horizon line of the Sardinian sea. Between Olbia, Cagliari, Porto Torres and now Bosa and Cabras projects have arrived for offshore wind farms fifteen times higher than those envisaged for all of Italy. An unholy invasion, the consequence of a State which not only does not program and does not plan, but which leaves the management of a game as delicate as energy and in this the landscape and environmental devastation to the free will of anyone.

The lesson of the Antimafia

What happened in 2009 did not even serve the State as a lesson, when, on that same stretch of sea, now at the mercy of the Spanish and Germans, equivocal and non-exemplary characters appeared. In those years, as a forerunner of the landing of offshore wind power in the Sardinian sea, a company landed on the proscenium of S'Archittu which resulted, through corporate connections and financial resources, then compromised with the highest leaders of the mafia, opening up precisely on those facts a wider-ranging investigation by the Parliamentary Anti-Mafia Commission itself. Since then, investigations began on the appetites of organized crime for renewable energy, without however arriving at the definition of a more stringent regulation for that type of business. Now the sea projects are being presented by multinationals, but the devastation does not change. Sardinia puts the sea and the landscape, the others do the business.

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