Kersonesus & Affari, the doubling of the shovels

The climb of Saras

The signature at the bottom is from the wind arm of Saras, Sardaeolica, the srl of the Moratti group which aims to rage on the peaks above Lula's Einstein Telescope, passing through the "Tacchi d'Ogliastra" and now directly on the most famous coast of the South of the island, the one that goes from Pula to Teulada. That oil scar imprinted for life on the proscenium of the Golfo degli Angeli was not enough for him, now the black gold multinational wants to colonize even the remaining coast with wind turbines, with seven gigantic turbines of 6.2 megawatts each of power, the largest available on the terrestrial market, for a total of 43.4 megawatts, to be placed along the main stages of the path of S. Efis.

Slap to S. Efis

In spite of the vaunted environmental sensitivity, the new intervention is a violent slap in the face of an area that until now has had no wind turbines, distinguished not only by a great naturalistic value, but also by an excellent agricultural vocation, together with a primacy five-star tourist. Nothing to do, for Saras it is more important to collect some other millionaire state incentive in favor of this wind offensive rather than safeguarding the environment and landscape.

Burning oil

However, the project of the multinational from Sarroch is not the only audacity of the Moratti family. In this first "quarterly" of 2023 as regards the wind projects presented in Sardinia, just seven days before "Kersonesus", also presented by Saras, appears "Astìa", the wind power plant to be placed on the peaks around Villamassargia and Musei , at the gates of the Iglesiente, as if by now there were no more borders, thrown down by the greed of wind and shovels.

Pale in S'Ortu Mannu

The positioning of the new wind turbines, apparently with a devastating intention, is envisaged in a place that has always been considered inviolable, between the naturalistic oasis of S'Ortu Mannu, with a heritage of millenary olive trees unique in the Mediterranean, the Castello della Gioiosa Guardia and the Orbai Mine with its remains transformed into a tourist site. Yet, the project, this time already viewable, doesn't worry about the environment, nature and protected sites in the slightest. For Saras, only one rule applies: first of all, spin shovels and incentives, it doesn't matter if we are dealing with safeguarded and protected assets. In this case, towering over those peaks will be seven wind turbines as impressive as they are invasive, visible according to the algorithms of visual perception from every corner of the Iglesiente, with seven skyscrapers of at least sixty floors each stuck on the ridges of the mountains close to the inhabited centres.

New 172 blades in three months

The energy security protocol, that of the ministry of incentives galore, did not stop for a moment in the first quarter of this year. For Sardinia it is an unstoppable wind invasion with the primates following one another without respite. Almost as if it were a stock market takeover, the “first quarterly” of the projects already presented on the island since the beginning of the year has already reached unthinkable levels. In just three months, projects were presented for 172 new blades, for a power of no less than 1,151 megawatts.

25 million inhabitants

The comparison is easy to make: in these first ninety days of 2023 projects equal to 80% of what has already been established in Sardinia in the last 20 years have been presented. A figure that says a lot about the assault from land and sea on the Nuraghi Island. In the last two years and three months, from 2020 to today, wind power projects have been filed in the Rome offices which plan to drive as many as 528 new blades into the peaks of Sardinia with an energy power forecast of 3,264 megawatts, more than double that of wind power already available, and above all more than double that which would be needed to replace that generated with the coal-fired plants of Portovesme and Porto Torres. This is wind energy which, according to a conservative estimate, could supply electricity to over 4 million citizens. An enormity to which must be added what the wind turbines that the lords of the wind would like to place in the middle of the sea of the island should produce. With a downward calculation, we would arrive at a production of wind energy for 25 million inhabitants. A fact that alone explains the madness of this mad race, illogical and blinded by the billionaire incentives that revolve around this operation. An unbridled race for Sardinian wind and state money.