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The Italian energy speculation company VISCONTI is trying to install 8 wind turbines 200 meters tall (almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower!) among the ancient historic villages of Orvieto, Castel Giorgio, and Castel Viscardo, in Umbria, in an area where there is no wind. As you can see from the photo, they have proposed wind turbines less than 120 meters from a landing strip in Castel Viscardo! All this without any consideration for residents, businesses, agriculture, or wildlife. The chosen sites are located on beautiful fertile land rich in Roman and Etruscan archaeology, which attracts a huge number of tourists every year.
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This is part of a policy aimed at sacrificing Tuscia, in central Italy, to the speculative industry of renewable energies, whose interests are not ecological at all, because true ecology is about preserving the environment, not destroying it, even for green energy! Everyone knows that the world must abandon fossil fuels, but renewable energies can be easily and successfully installed on existing industrial structures in already industrialized areas. In Italy, studies have shown that there are enough to meet the EU Green Deal targets set for Italy, with a 30% surplus. In Tuscia, projects for 453 wind turbines between 200 and 250 meters high are awaiting building permits, between Orvieto and Capalbio. This will deprive central Italy of arable land used for growing the fine Italian food, renowned and appreciated worldwide. Furthermore, it will destroy ancient historical landscapes, natural parks, Etruscan and Roman archaeological sites like Pitigliano and Sorano, flora and fauna, and forests that will be cut down. The area of Tuscia will be devastated.
Link to project on MASE website: https://va.mite.gov.it/it-IT/Oggetti/Documentazione/11753/17968
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There are plans to install 453 wind turbines in Tuscia, 200-250metres high
industrialising tuscia will decimate a bucolic landscape, .Ancient heritage and food sovereignty
Everyone is aware of the need to change our energy production away from fossil fuels to renewable sources, but there is no sense in installing renewable energy plant at the cost of ruining the landscape, rendering agricultural land sterile and useless. Governments must devise a strategy which increases green energy production without destroying pristine landscape. This is possible. In Italy there are hundreds of thousands of existing roof structures, industrial and agricultural, which could be used for photo voltaic generation. Similarly, there are motorway and railway cuttings which would also be suitable. Giving the individual the ability to produce also increases energy responsibility, potentially reducing waste.
Italy has almost 8000km of coastline, so the choice of offshore sites for wind turbines is enormous. Offshore wind sited 30km from the coast makes them imperceptible from the land, where any wind is more consistent, and their effect of landscape is negligible
The bucolic historic Tuscian landscape has been targeted for green energy production because of its proximity to the TERNA electrical power station in Civitavecchia but for anyone who has made their life choice to live in the beautiful Tuscian clean countryside the prospect of hundreds of wind turbines is one of the worst nightmares.
The mad gold rush to produce green electricity is yet another opportunity for wealthy financiers and corporations to reap profit at the expense of countryfolk who DO NOT benefit from any free electricity or subsidy. Governments and administrations are being strong-armed into lucrative contracts, bypassing planning legislation, in order to plant structures which are totally unsuitable within a rural setting.
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"We cannot solve the environmental crisis by destroying the environment."
Satish Kumar
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Ten facts why wind turbines should not be built in Tuscia:
One Data shows there is insufficient wind in Tuscia to render onshore wind farms an efficient source of green energy, Italy is a country of sun, not wind.
Two A 200 metre high wind turbine needs a foundation 30 metres deep and requires 2200 tons of concrete, 628 tons of steel and 830 tons of sand . Wind turbine installation poses a serious risk to local aquifers and water table, apart from the huge use of resources, and threat of health and safety of all species.
Three Tuscia is primarily known for the countless ancient historical Etruscan and Roman sites that would be severely impacted by the installation of the turbine structures and installation of electrical wiring, piping and access roads.
Four Wind turbines are a death sentence to tourism affecting local economies.
Five Wind turbines create 'dirty electricity'. Electromagnetic waves are generated by the conversion of wind energy to electricity. This conversion produces high-frequency transients and harmonics that result in poor power quality. These high frequencies can flow along the wires (dirty electricity) and along the ground, thereby causing ground current.
Six Farm animals will not graze near a wind turbine because of negative vibrational waves, noise and dirty electricity
Seven Soil becomes sterile from dirty electricity because insects and worms move away from large areas around wind turbines, destroying agriculture
Eight The rotation of blades frequently kills local and migratory birds and bats.
Nine Any dwelling such as a hotel, farm or agriturismo within 5km of a wind turbine farm will decrease in value by an average of 30%
Ten The visual effect of a wind turbine has no place in a rural setting where people are living close by.
Eleven The BPA resin used for wind turbine blades pollutes when it weathers, shedding 180kg of toxic powder every year into the air and onto the ground around it for the entirety of its lifetime.
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Places affected: lago di bolsena, orvieto, Cività di bagnoregio, Pitigliano, Sorano, Ischia di Castro, castel giorgio, Onano, Manciano, Tuscania, Valentano, Canino, Piansano, Montefiascone, Celleno, Farnese, Cellere, Tarquinia, Latera, Capodimonte, Marta.