speculazione energetica

At the beginning of July the Sardinian regional council has approved a moratorium that blocks the authorization of new plants for the extraction of renewable energy.A decision, although judged timid and not very decisive in the terms in which it was adopted, which represents the first victory of a vast movement born and grown in recent months which defines itself as "against energy speculation" and against "the assault of multinationals" to the Sardinian territory.A movement that is not satisfied and demands that the already approved projects, which are filling Sardinia with wind and solar plants that will serve not to generate energy for the territory, but to make the region a center for energy exports, also be stopped towards mainland Italy and abroad.Also taking part in the protest are over 60 companies and guides dealing with sustainable and naturalistic tourism, who have sent a letter to explain the reasons for their protest.We have decided to publish it in ful...

Not only in Sardinia, the great works of the so-called "green energy" have arrived throughout Italy, starting from the south and reaching the center.This is the case of Tuscany, where for a year now citizens, committees and environmental groups have been fighting to preserve the the Mugello area is already at risk.The project for the Tuscany Region is always the same:planting towers 170 meters high, «as high as two Giotto bell towers one on top of the other», in natural areas close to the mountain, close to protected reserves, with reinforced concrete bases the size of half a football field. Land consumption, serious impact on the environment, hydrogeological instability, these are some of the risks faced by Mugello, reported by a group of groups in one open letter against wind speculation.Among these, the Committee for the protection of the Mugello ridges, one of the associations active in defense of the territory, which explained to The Independent the situation...

The Italian government has decided to appeal to the Constitutional Court against the moratorium approved at the beginning of July by the Sardinia Region in which an 18-month suspension was foreseen for new projects linked to the production and storage of renewable energy.According to the government, this regional legislation in fact exceeds the competences attributed to Sardinia by the Statute, coming into conflict with national and European laws and violating articles of the Constitutional Charter.The governor of Sardinia Alessandra Todde immediately attacked the Meloni executive, later accused of "demagoguery" by the Brothers of Italy.The Sardinian parliamentarians of the 5 Star Movement have expressed their support in a note thrown the gauntlet at the government on the issue. The hypothesis that an appeal against Sardinian law no.5 of 3 July 2024, entitled "Urgent measures for the protection of the landscape and landscape and environmental assets", had already be...

«Green Umbria is under attack».Thus Roberto Malini, co-president of the international human rights organization EveryOne Group, supported by the environmentalist association Italia Nostra, launches his appeal to the Government and local institutions to curb the wind speculation that is about to hit the Region.Specifically, there are six projects launched in Umbria, which include the installation of 60 wind turbines in naturalistic areas «characterized by delicate natural environments and enchanting landscapes».The blades that will be used are the same ones featured in the similar projects based in Sardinia and Tuscany The Independent he has already spoken several times:structures of approximately 200 meters with reinforced concrete bases «as large as half a football field», which would «a devastating impact on territories characterized by important avifaunal qualities". The project to build wind farms in Umbria involves construction, as re...

In Sardinia, the collection of signatures has officially started to stop wind and photovoltaic park projects on the island in the absence of an adequate regional energy plan.It was launched by the "No Committee", which aims to obtain the vote soon 10 thousand signatures needed to bring citizens to a consultative referendum.The protagonists of the initiative are, specifically, the lawyer Michele Pala, responsible promoter, and the Arzachena doctor Pietro Satta, contact person for Gallura.«Do you want the Sardinian landscape, on land and sea, to be modified with the installation on the land and at sea of ​​industrial wind and/or photovoltaic systems for the production of electricity?» we read in question at the center of the signature collection, which the Committee aims to achieve submit to the vote of Sardinian citizens. “Meetings to promote the referendum and initiatives to collect signatures are underway throughout the island,” wrote...

Planting olive trees against the indiscriminate and coercive expropriation of land.Return to the earth the plants eradicated by corporate interests.The roots as an emblem of the struggle.This is the meaning behind it popular uprising that arose spontaneously within a few hours in the countryside of Selargius, in Sardinia, immediately renamed "the revolt of the olive trees".Here, last Saturday, a citizen was the victim of a forced expropriation.He had refused to sell his lands to Terna, the company in charge of carrying out the work for the commissioning of the Tyrrhenian Link, the long cable that will connect Sardinia to the peninsula to transport the electricity produced by wind power to the island .In response, the company began to uproot the olive trees forcibly planted on the land.The reaction from the area was immediate:about a hundred people were on site to prevent the company from continuing.He was born like this a permanent garrison, which intends to resist against th...

In the port of Oristano, where the permanent garrison against the transit of special vehicles transporting wind turbines was established in recent days, the first tensions with the police were recorded during the night.A group of people actually sat on the ground for prevent the transit of trucks which transport the components of the shovels to the areas of the island where they will then be installed, an initiative which led to the immediate intervention of the police, who immediately set up a cordon to protect the vehicles in riot gear.«The giant wind turbines are starting towards territories to be devastated despite the moratorium, all together we can stop them" was the appeal, in recent days, of the Group for the Protection of the Sardinian Territory (Gruttes), which started the initiative.In recent weeks, in fact, the Region had given the green light to one moratorium which blocks every new renewable energy project, wind and photovoltaic, in order to stop what has been...