speculazione energetica

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...

Last Saturday, thousands of people poured into the streets of Saccargia, in the countryside of Codrongianus (Sassari), for a major mobilization against the speculative assault on renewable sources in Sardinia.The event, entitled "E-Vento di Saccargia", saw the presence of information gazebos of the committees and speeches on stage by their spokesmen and a series of experts, as well as musical moments from artists who wanted to give their contribution to the cause.The event follows a few days after the meeting held by the members of the coordination with the new president of the Region Alessandra Todde, following the approval of the Council's bill which blocked the installation of renewable plants for 18 months.According to the committees, even following the discussion, which took place in a serene atmosphere of dialogue, numerous «dark spots», in particular on the minimum ceiling of 6.2 GW of renewables assigned to Sardinia in the agreement with the Ministry and o...

The regional council of Sardinia, chaired by the new governor Alessandra Todde, approved on Monday the bill "Urgent measures for the protection of the landscape, landscape and environmental assets", which introduces a ban on the construction of new energy production and storage plants electricity from renewable sources which directly cause new land occupation for 18 months.In fact, the text specifies that article 9 of the Constitution provides that the Republic, and therefore also the Regions, are called upon to work towards ensuring the safeguarding and protection of the environment and landscape.For years, citizens and networks of Sardinian associations have been mobilizing against the multinationals' assault on the island's territory, whose municipalities have been flooded by authorization requests for the construction of wind turbines and new photovoltaic systems.A battle which, in recent weeks, has begun to intensify again, with an influx of petitions and initiatives in...

Mayors and citizens, committees and unions, politicians and independent acronyms.There are thousands of people who today, Wednesday 2 October, have decided to take to the streets of Cagliari to deliver the over 210,000 signatures in favor of the “Pratobello 24” law proposal against energy speculation.Citizens from all over Sardinia were present at the event, many of whom arrived in the regional capital on board organized buses.The law raised quite a bit of controversy, but in the end it succeeded bring together most of the committees and municipalities in the region."Today is a date that, in my opinion, will become historic, because we are delivering 210,000 signatures which would effectively block energy speculation in a clear and stable way," he declared to The Independent the lawyer Michele Zuddas, among the promoters of the initiative.«We will deliver the signatures to the President of the Regional Council with the hope that this Region will interpret th...