They wrote it precisely, apertis verbis, in the first instance sentence: the Draghi government decree goes in the direction of the conversion to gas of the current coal plants. They are so convinced of what they say that they come to comment: it makes no sense for the Region to complain given that this choice "responds to the well-known need to reduce the use of fossil fuels in energy production".
Crossfire
More than a sentence of the Lazio Tar is a crossfire, all aimed at dismantling the theses of the Sardinian Region and endorsing, without hesitation, the decree of the Draghi government that unscrupulous commissioner the Island of the sun and the wind. Not only did the judges ignore the functional and obvious correlation between "gas" and "electricity production", in order to eliminate the primary statutory competence of the Region, but they founded the "State theorem" on assumptions devoid of any foundation . It is enough, for example, to find the statement with which they argue that the gas sent to Sardinia, through “water barges”, would have been used to power thermoelectric plants.
Farce conversion
Not new plants but, the Judges write, plants to be "converted" from coal to gas. The reference is to those of Portovesme and Porto Torres, the first of Enel, the second of Ep, a multinational from Prague. The statements of the judges of the first instance on the subject are boundless. To support the government thesis they even go so far as to argue that the employment issue, which the Region had also raised, is out of place: "It is not, indeed, that occupational needs are necessarily recessive with respect to environmental ones, but the decree of the President of the The Council of Ministers is not the sedes materiae in which, at the same time as the decarbonisation of these two plants, a precise response to the employment issue must be immediately provided ".
Workers? Another time
As if to say: this is not the place to talk about workers. The Lazio TAR, however, does not shy away from the topic and adds: "Since the structural difference in terms of manpower of the two plant configurations has long been known, one (coal-fired) equal to hundreds of employees, the other (to LNG) equal to only a few dozen, so it is also the primary task of the Region, in the most suitable locations and in agreement with the State, to find gradual solutions to this problem ». Not only do the judges of Rome discharge the workers of Enel, a state-owned company, to the responsibility of the Region, but they continue, regardless of the reality and the acts, to talk about a reconversion of the plants that does not exist. Not a trivial element, but decisive and decisive on several fronts, the substantial one of that gas transformed into energy would benefit the entire regional and constitutional territory, given that it would be, if the reasoning of the Judges on the competences in question were valid. strictly speaking, of electricity production directly connected to Article 4 of the Sardinian Statute.
