The news of the Sardinian Union of recent decades, as well as the Videolina news archive, certify a certainty: this editorial group has always fought in defense of a primary good, Sardinia. Declined on all aspects of everyday life. The most exposed nerve in recent times, due (also) to two Government decrees, signed by Mario Draghi and Giorgia Meloni, is called energy speculation.

The appetites of multinationals

Behind the screen of renewables, our island is suffering the appetites of multinationals who not only have the objective of saving the world, but also of putting the incentives for the production of "green" energy in the safe. But for Sardinians, capturing the wind and sun is not free. Three thousand wind towers planted wherever they happen, the equivalent of 86 thousand football fields covered with photovoltaic panels. In defiance of our landscape, our nature, our history, our dignity, our future.

The “pact” with the Government

The Sardinia Region, a few weeks ago, signed a pact with the Government: we are ready to host plants to produce 6.2 gigawatts within suitable areas yet to be defined. Not to mention the assault planned in every corner of the Sardinian coast. A disproportionate amount not only compared to the needs of the population and businesses of the island, but also to the export capacity of the infamous submarine cable, the Tyrrhenian Link, designed, born and raised to transform Sardinia into an energy colony. The writer highlighted this in a 2019 editorial, Giuseppe Conte Prime Minister: Terna, the Sicily Region and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti signed an agreement for a large power line between Sicily and Sardinia, aimed at «the efficiency and sustainability of the Sicilian electricity grid ». A cable to also be passed near Ciminna, between the locations of "The Leopard" by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. We wrote it then, easy prophets: it will be a noose around the island's neck. The Conte I Government (Five Star Movement and League) and Conte II (M5S and Pd) put their hats on it, even more so with the resources of the Pnrr resulting from Covid. That project was accepted in the silence of those who only wanted to maintain the income of their political position, in full Leopard style. Even in our latitudes. Written and rewritten. Here. Just to remind the keyboard lions, apologizing for the abuse of felines.

A commitment to our land

From 2000 to today, the Sardinian Union has dedicated around three thousand pages to the risk of energy speculation masked by green labels, more than a thousand pages from 2022 to today alone. It is not acceptable for the green flag to be waved without having the intellectual honesty to say and write that Sardinia cannot afford to accept with its head bowed decisions taken elsewhere for unclear interests. Indeed, very clear. Interests that do not coincide with those of our children and grandchildren. Yes to the production of energy from renewable sources in industrial areas compromised (and never reclaimed) by the usual suspects, yes to panels on the roofs of houses and companies. No to the towers in front of the Nuragic palaces, the sacred wells, the Romanesque churches, the most beautiful beaches in the world. No to expanses of panels in agricultural areas, where food, bread, wealth and life are produced. Are we out of time? Or are those who decide in Rome that the island should produce more energy than Lombardy out of time? Or who doesn't defend every square centimeter of this gift from God called Sardinia? Or who wastes even a single day without slamming the door in the face, in accordance with the law, of those who want to put a tombstone on our landscape? It is surprising that in this return to the future, associations that have always fought to defend nature have come down from the time machine, planting (and we are grateful for) flags and flags. Here, we would like every Sardinian, tomorrow, to be able to proudly say I was there and I fought for you, Sardinia. And I won .

Emanuele Dessì

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