They didn't even wait for the start of the new year. Twenty-four hours before the New Year's Eve fireworks, on December 30, the National Technical Commission Pnrr-Pniec effectively "decapitated" at birth, even before the constitutional challenge, the law on "suitable areas" approved by the Regional Council on December 5, 2024. A very hard blow for a regional legislative system that from the beginning threatened to dissolve at the first gust of wind among the speculative storms that increasingly threaten the Island.
One-two
In its last meeting of the year, the highest national body for the approval of wind and photovoltaic projects, it delivered a massive “one-two punch” that floored the Sardinian Region and put two new projects into action, all of which, according to the recently approved regional regulations, fall within “illusory” “unsuitable areas”. Too bad, however, that the misleading definition of “unsuitable areas”, pursued by the Regional Council itself, was based on the assumption of the infamous Draghi who has constantly reiterated: even in “unsuitable areas”, rotating skyscrapers or endless silicon grids “made in China” can be built.
Facade prohibitions
The regional law also provided for "bans" on those areas, but these are, also in light of the latest ministerial pronouncement, ineffective and/or illegitimate bans given that the Draghi Decree, which the Sardinian law slavishly draws inspiration from, excludes them a priori. Non-stringent bans, totally unanchored by explicit constitutional rules as, instead, provided for by the Pratobello Law which bases its bans on the primary competence of the Region in the matter of "urban planning". For the National Commission, the verdict on the two projects approved at the end of the year, "Monte Nurra", in the Sassari countryside, and "Villasor" in the Medio Campidano countryside, constitutes a precedent destined to become a "principle", barring judicial reversals, which are in any case difficult to imagine given the consolidated jurisprudence on the matter.
