Don't call them unscrupulous, they try. The real issue of this borderless assault on the Sardinian sea is that of those who allow it, with procedures as hidden as they are armored, once in the state offices, another time in those of the guardians of the sea. From the harbor master's offices to the wind energy invasion ministry, not a day goes by that there aren't some papers destined to get their hands on the island, from land and sea. The latest blitz is, as usual, reserved for the few visitors to the state rooms in Piazza Deffenu in Cagliari, the seat of the harbor master's office.

Wild West

These gentlemen candidates to slice the wind at sea, on the exclusive coast of the island of tourism, do not care about the SOS that less than a year ago had launched the commander in chief of the Sardinian branch of the Ministry of Infrastructure. The exhortation was aimed more at politics and institutions than at these public wind exploiters for private business. If they had had ears to hear, however, they would have understood it: the south of the island is being transformed, the sea of the coast that goes from Cagliari to Sulcis, passing through the Golfo degli Angeli up to the island of San Pietro, into a real and just far west.

Foreign invasion

Whoever arrives, whether Norwegian or American, German or Spanish, is a candidate to place a jungle of wind turbines capable not only of blocking the route of bluefin tuna, the vital economy of the Tabarchina Island, but of forever devastating the skyline and navigability of that extraordinary proscenium overlooking that stretch of coast. The accounting of the cyclopean shovels, as high as the Eiffel Tower, 268 meters, runs the risk of losing count, if only for the continuous change of tunic of the companies which first appear poor, with ten thousand euros of capital, and then, out of the blue, real money comes out into the open, with tens of millions of euros to be paid or already paid.

Wind for Luxembourg

The latest wind energy invasion project lands at the Ichnusa pier just on the eve of the departure of the America's Cup. The whistling sails of the New Zealanders and those of Luna Rossa go away and the mammoth blades of "Inergia spa" arrive, an unknown joint-stock company with a curriculum to be discovered, starting, for the majority shareholder, 87.5%, from the capital hidden in the tax havens of Luxembourg, to arrive at a receivership, still in place for bankruptcy registered in the company registers. When the papers of "Inergia" cross the entrance of the Capitaneria of Cagliari it is late March.

10,000 football fields

The request is explicit: concession of 84 million square meters of territorial waters, within twelve miles and another sixteen million square meters in international waters, or rather in those "withdrawn" and made its own by Algeria with the imposition of the Zone Exclusive economic in front of Carloforte. In all we are talking about 100 million square meters of sea, or, translated into football, 10,000 football fields. An infinite expanse of sea, taken away, where everything or almost everything will be banned, with an operation in which the benefits for Sardinia will all be lost, no energy, only habitat destruction with incalculable damage to the fishing economy, the tourism and pleasure boating. In short, a sea promised to paradise, usurped by the hell of high-end affairs.

66 blades for Inergia spa

In practice, the gentlemen of "Inergia spa", think of sticking into the sea in front of Carloforte, close to S.Antioco, through a declared floating, as many as 66 elephantine blades, declared minimum height of 268 meters in height, destined to grow if the technology, as is happening in several projects already presented in Sardinia, will go so far as to slice the wind above 380 meters of "altitude" above sea level. The wind turbines they want to place have already been divided between international and territorial waters. In those under state jurisdiction, 20 would go, while in the adjoining ones, in fact Algerian-international, another 46.

25 million inhabitants

The wind farm that they intend to place right in front of La Caletta, the heavenly coast of Carloforte, should have, according to the declared design calculations, a productive power of 990 megawatts, enough to produce energy for one million inhabitants. It is a pity that this production would add up to that already planned with other wind, land and sea "packages", for 25 million inhabitants. So much energy that one would have to find a place to throw it away, since even if they made the Tyrrhenian Link cable, they wouldn't be able to export even a twentieth of it.

Pockets full of incentives

Therefore, yet another operation with a clear objective: to fill the pockets of billionaire incentives in order to devastate the coasts of Sardinia to the sound of land and sea shovels. What leads to more than one reflection is the persistence not only towards Sardinia, but even more concentrated on Carloforte and Sant'Antioco. We reproduce the graphic scheme in the photo on this page, but the overall figure is eloquent: 269 wind turbines have been designed in the archipelago in front of the Sulcis to be placed in the middle of the sea, for a production of 3,651 megawatts of electrical power. We are talking about an amount of energy equal to five power plants like the active one in Portoscuso. Energy for almost four million inhabitants compared to 120,000 in Sulcis, one million in southern Sardinia, including Cagliari, and one million and 650,000 inhabitants of the entire island. In short, a project, the seventh in a long series, which speaks for itself.

Bankruptcy & judges

It remains to be understood why this umpteenth company has decided, last but not least, to throw this new wind project on the Sardinian sea onto the table of the government. Something is certainly happening in the intricacies of wind power affairs if a company owned by a foreign company, covered by the Luxembourg shield, has also applied for this challenge, against common sense and even the patience of the Sardinians.

Seized shares

There is also the side note of the company to be clarified: with a provision dated 7 May 2020, the judge for preliminary investigations of the Court of Ascoli Piceno ordered the preventive seizure of n. 1,062,000 ordinary shares with a value of €1,062,000.00 and no. 468,000 special shares worth €468,000.00 representing the share capital of the company "inergia spa", paid by "silf sa", the company that owns Inergia spa. With the same provision, the judge appointed Omero Martella as custodian and judicial administrator, still today at the head of the company that wants to "climb" the Sardinian sea.

Clash of suitors

The clash on that stretch of sea will not be trivial. On the one hand there will be the opposition of those who believe that wind invasion is devastating, both in terms of landscape and economy, but above all, there will be war between suitors. In recent days, Luigi Severini, the pioneering designer of the wind-powered invasion of Carloforte, presented himself again on the parterre of San Pietro. Initially two years ago, his company "Ichnusa Wind Power srl", had paid a handout of a few thousand euros, just ten, now, in the presence of the ministry, it presented itself with a deliberate capital of over 42 million euros.

The patriarchs & colossi

The patriarchs of the operation are always there, Severini's son, Alessandro, and Giuseppe Gino Carnevale. In the team, however, apparently they don't count for much anymore. We had abundantly anticipated it more than a year ago. To get their hands on that company would have been the foreign giants and the state multinationals that were already buzzing around the operation.

Hannibal, the Dane

It is no coincidence that John Michael Hannibal was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors. The birthplace of the "predestined" says it all: Horsens, Denmark. Much more than a clue. In fact, he is the envoy of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, the Danish multinational that took over the operation together with ENI itself and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. In short, those who want to get their hands on the Sardinian sea, and that of Carloforte in particular, now have a name and surname: the Italian State, with the participation of a company from northern Europe.

Silence & almsgiving

Everyone is silent, of course, from Rome and Cagliari. In the offices of the Region, in one of the key departments, there are even very well-connected subjects, all local, who plan the occupation of immense areas of the canal port, desolately devastated by neglect and abandonment, for the storage of wind turbines, with the sole aim of collecting some crumbs-alms fruit of the devastation of the sea and the landscape of Sardinia. A silence that clashes heavily with the need for strong actions, not to claim mere and sinister compensations, which smack of institutions for sale to the highest bidder, but to block once and for all this assault by the lords of the wind on the Nuraghi Island.

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