Sink, for the time being. The 300-meter-high wind turbines to be placed in the heart of the Golfo degli Angeli will remain a mirage. The high-profile deals to be consumed to the sound of billionaires state incentives do not have to be done. The long-awaited and unexpected verdict is consummated with an official communication from the Port Authority of Cagliari.

The negative dispatch

The dispatch is dated September 13, 2022. As often happens, the message bursts into the e-mail of the municipalities when the offices are already closed: offshore wind projects rejected. Technically, this is the conclusion with a "negative" outcome of the Service Conferences first called and then revoked to grant or not the mega wind invasion in the stretch of water of the Gulf of Cagliari, up to Pula and Domus de Maria.

Eiffel Tower in the sea

A real assault to the sound of cyclopean wind turbines, higher than the Eiffel Tower, to float with impunity in an exclusive stretch of sea. The gaze that projects from the Bastion of Cagliari to the Punic remains of Nora would have been irremediably compromised if those projects had, in one way or another, materialized. The communication from the Port Authority of Cagliari is a sequence of denials. At dawn yesterday the municipal offices of Pula, Villa San Pietro, Domus de Maria, Teulada, Carloforte, Sant'Antioco, Calasetta and Teulada receive the determination of the Southern Sardinia Harbor Office. Falling under the caudine forks of the graduated men in charge of the safety of navigation and in many ways of the sea itself are four offshore wind farms of gigantic dimensions: the two Falck Renewables projects, Nora Ventu 1 and 2, totaling 91 blades for 1,400 megawatts, and those of Toro 1 and 2, 48 blades for 576 megawatts to be built between the islands of San Pietro and Sant'Antioco, proposed by Seawind Italia.

Routes in danger

The determination of the Port Authority of Cagliari is clear and clear: concession denied. The reason is synthetic: entrusting millions of square meters of water under concession means compromising navigation routes, naturalistic environmental heritage, even affecting the life of the sea, starting with the bluefin tuna route, which has always been a strategic resource for the Island of Carloforte. and not only. The state office overturns the procedures: before granting the concession of such large stretches of sea, an environmental impact assessment is required.

Environment first

The concept is explicit: "From an analysis of the observations presented at the end of the investigation phase delegated to this Harbor Master's Office by the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, it can be seen that the environmental impact assessment procedure constitutes a fundamental and essential in order to establish the required 'compatibility of the structures making up the plant with other maritime activities including the migratory routes of tuna and the possible impact of electromagnetic fields with fishing'. As if to say: first the fundamental conditions on the landscape and environmental level are verified and, then, eventually, the request for the maritime concession will be evaluated. The wind lords wanted the exact opposite: first the hands on the sea and the wind and, then, only after, the environmental impact assessment. Now the Port Authority reverses the administrative process that the wind companies have tried to impose, asking in advance the maritime concession on immense water spaces.

First the sea

The position of the state offices of Cagliari was leaked by a letter intercepted in recent months as part of the investigation of our newspaper on the wind invasion in the Gulf of Angels. On that occasion it was clear that those floating paddles in the middle of the sea would not have had an easy life anyway.

The notice of the Command

The Commander had written it clearly: "For the exclusive aspects of competence, from the point of view of safety of maritime navigation, safeguarding human life at sea and maritime police, although not directly interfering with each other, the graphic representation of The set of six projects highlights, in the writer's opinion, the need for preliminary planning of the areas to be allocated to the location of the wind farms, since their coexistence could interfere with traffic and fishing activities in the future ".

Far West risk

In short, for the South Sardinia Sea Command, the Far West of wind farms had to be stopped in every way. Hours the papers with the refusal of the Capitaneria of Cagliari return to Rome. Destination ministries of Infrastructures, Ecological Transition and Palazzo Chigi. The wind lords will not give up easily.

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