Remember Angelo Bonelli planting a beach umbrella in the dry Po River to denounce the «government’s climate indifference»? Or the eco-proposals of Elly Schlein? Electric buses, heat pumps, and green projects funded with resources taken from who knows where. All communist stuff on Mars, because once back down to earth, even these people have to face reality.
And there’s no escape, as the case of the “H002-Asciano” wind project well illustrates, presented by Gruppo Visconti S.r.l. to install 10 giant 72 MW wind turbines in the iconic landscape of the Crete Senesi. Industrial wind turbines up to 200 meters tall between the locations of San Martino in Grania and La Campana, a project covering an area of over 600 hectares well known to off-road cycling enthusiasts, but a place everyone has seen at least once in their life, if not in person then on TV or in some magazine. A unique place, and the very idea of imagining huge windmills there would not only drive Don Quixote crazy but is contributing to an unprecedented political alliance in red Tuscany, with the champions of green and renewable energy leading the march to say “no” precisely to renewable wind energy: because as long as it’s about attacking oil multinationals, everything is fine, but when the green plants you don’t like end up outside your home, then everyone stops. Around the (correct, without doubt) protection of the Crete, which has its strength precisely in the visual impact, a bipartisan convergence has formed.
Boom in consultancy from the EU Commission to get opinions on climate and energy
For at least a couple of years there has been talk of a crisis or at least a slowdown of the European Green Deal: the strategy l…
The mayors and administrations of Siena (including the Province), Asciano, Monteroni d’Arbia and the Union of Municipalities of the Val di Merse (90% of which are led by administrations affiliated with the PD and the left) have united: through dozens of observations submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Energy Security (Mase), they are requesting the project be blocked. Tomorrow, a heated meeting will be held in the municipal library of Asciano, in full “Nimby syndrome” (Not in my backyard, not in my garden), making the ideological short circuit of the left clear. Their political narrative focuses on accelerating the ecological transition, abandoning fossil fuels, and increasing renewable energy targets. They have been hammering this into us. Then comes the test of facts on the ground, where governance happens and not comfortably in opposition, and they crash into practicality, both electoral and civic.
Milan, left divided on everything: green, smoke, and Gaza, a sensational case
The Green Councilor of the Municipality of Milan, Elena Grandi, is absent. But despite her absence in the chamber, the…
And here the left finds itself stuck: theoretically and in parliament it demands strict and costly environmental initiatives, waving dogmas and exploiting fears. Then, in the councils and regions they administer, they capitulate in front of protests from residents, committees, and farmers, discovering that energy infrastructures require land consumption, changes in traffic, visual impact. A social cost that is easy to demand but few are willing to pay lightly. After all, precisely in Tuscany led by the Democrat Eugenio Giani, they have long been dealing with the case of the large and contested photovoltaic plant in Val di Cornia, and with the dispute with Emilia Romagna over other large wind farms along the Apennine backbone. Yes, Emilia, another red region that has problems with green…
Angelo Bonelli, from the banks of the dry Po the delirious attack on Giorgia Meloni
From «Meloni come to Parliament to report» to «Meloni come to the banks of the Po to realize the …
Of course, there are the latest and next-generation civil nuclear plants, small in size (the SMRs, small modular reactors, occupy spaces from 3 to 5 football fields; the MMRs, micro modular reactors, are like ship containers) and probably the truly sustainable and futuristic real solution: but we have understood that the left mostly likes to protest…
