In Sardinia a forest of wind turbines, endless expanses of photovoltaic panels in agricultural fields, barges and tank wagons. Borderland, on the outskirts of the third world, where the energy of the sun and wind must be captured to “give it away” to the Continent, without any benefit for the island, other than environmental and landscape devastation. The energy cost will not only remain very expensive, the most expensive of all, but will also be destined to grow further than in any other Italian and European region. From now on, however, even that minimum energy production autonomy will be canceled and the Sardinian industrial system, what remains, will in fact be attached to a cyclopean “battery”. For the rest, the Sardinians will only have a mega electric leash, a cable between Sardinia and Sicily, designed by Terna, which will force the island to produce a quantity of renewable energy at least 5 times higher than its own needs in order to export it to the Continent.
The electric blitz
The energy blitz is no longer just a hypothesis or a prediction. For some hours what we had documented in our energy inquiries has been taking shape with an impetuousness that recalls strong terms, capable of overturning constitutional principles, from loyal collaboration to respect for the prerogatives of the Special Statute Regions. The text is armored in the secret rooms of Palazzo Chigi. The state stamps have not yet been affixed. For the final blow Mario Draghi will probably wait for the weekend. Certainly those two articles and eleven paragraphs on the desk of the President of the Council of Ministers are much more than a decree. In one fell swoop they impose on Sardinia unprecedented choices, almost a military occupation, decided with acts that totally exclude the Sardinian Region from the decisions and, above all, cancel with a stroke of the sponge the constitutional and statutory competence of the regional administration on a subject as decisive for development as energy.
Energy colony
An operation entirely decided in the tunnels of the strong powers who have, in no uncertain terms, decided to use Sardinia as a real "energy colony" to exploit wind and sun, disfiguring the landscape and the environment, and then transport it to Sicily and Campania. In practice, the Island, according to the decree prepared by the Minister of Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani, and upon the signature of the Prime Minister, must be sprinkled with thousands of hectares of photovoltaic panels and hundreds and hundreds of wind turbines of all sizes. In recent months we had published the content of an amendment, later approved, with which Parliament was giving a mandate to the government to score a real energy "coup" against Sardinia.
