They wanted to attack the pre-Nuragic proscenium of Pranu Muttedu, the megalithic village downstream of the large Mulargia lake, in the land of Flumendosa, with wind turbines. An exclusive landscape, an archaic interweaving of a wild environment and ancient signs of the great civilization of the Sardinian people. Places without a future, according to the wind profiteers, who once again came from very far away. As they had already done throughout the length and breadth of Sardinia, here too they thought of making the totalizer of State incentives spin, intercepting the gusts that have always, in this place steeped in ancient spirituality, shaped ridges, smoothed the horizon and " disheveled” centuries-old holm oaks and junipers. It went badly for him, for today and, in all likelihood, also for the future. Last night's ruling by the Sardinia Regional Administrative Court is not an occasional decision. The administrative judges not only wrote a tombstone for those wind turbines that would have forever scarred that place steeped in ancient history and uncontaminated nature, but they wrote a decisive chapter in the future of the island. What politicians and institutions at all levels have failed to do, the officials of the Administrative Court of Sardinia are doing.
“Constitutional” verdict
Not simply a verdict, but a pronouncement that in many ways takes on a "constitutional" value, putting down on paper one of the most authoritative, enlightened and modern interpretations of the Charter of Laws. A sentence preceded by a careful reading of all the values imprinted in that Constitution which even today seems to represent the last bastion of common sense and foresight. What the TAR Judges do, with the ruling dated 5 April 2024, is an objective and timely balancing of those cornerstones introduced by the Constituents and recently innovated on the subject of the environment.
The question: who prevails?
The decisive issue can be summarized with a question: which comes first: renewable energy, wind turbines and photovoltaic panels, or the environment and the history of Sardinian civilisation? The response of Judge Gianluca Serra, author of the sentence, of Judge Councilor Oscar Marongiu and of the President of the TAR himself, Marco Buricelli is destined to mark the future of the Island. The passage is limited to a few concepts: « . In summary: it is true that renewable energies are important, but they cannot in any way prevail or, worse, be all-encompassing over other constitutional values, such as the landscape, the environment, the culture and the identity of a people. And it is the Judges themselves who define as irrelevant any other jurisprudence that does not take these values into account: « ". In other words: the point of balance for the Judges is not to put a few less shovels and "sacrifice" a few nuraghi and menhirs, as the three brothers from Bolzano Ernest, Thomas and Josef Gostner, owners of the project and of the Green Society, would have liked Sardegna 2 srl who proposed the massacre. The balance is therefore given by the absolute protection of those assets explicitly and intrinsically protected by the Constitution. The magistrates in Piazza del Carmine, headquarters of the Sardinia TAR, were not even worried about the avalanche of regulations that governments and parliament have passed in an attempt to facilitate the wind attack, in Sardinia first of all. And they say it without too many preambles: « .
