Badia Tedalda wants the wind farm, for Italia Nostra it is an “eco-monster”
As happened in 2016 for the project of a wind farm on the Poggio Tre Vescovi ridge, ItaliaNostra he also opposes the named one “Bada del Vento”. A “ecomonster – writes the environmental association – that, if authorized, it will disfigure the Alta Valmarecchia and the area of the historic Montefeltro”. L’authorization request was presented to Tuscany region; provides for the construction of a wind farm – formed by seven turbines 180 meters highwith rotors with a diameter of 136 meters inserted on a hub 112 meters high – in the municipality of Badia Tedaldain the province of Arezzo, on the border with the Emilia-Romagna Region.
The sight landscape alteration, Italia Nostra writes again, would have a negative impact on the territory, damaging its naturalistic aspects and “strongly limiting any prospect of territorial development and enhancement”. The turbines would in fact be perceptible from Casteldelci, Pennabilli and Sant’Agata Feltria, as well as from Verghereto and Badia Tedalda. The plant, according to the association, does not even respect the 7 kilometers away from protected architectural heritage and historical centres, as required by law. And also list the possible ones damage: felling of trees, foundations of towers, excavation of the land, widening of roads and paths, burial of cable ducts in a territory – underlines Italia Nostra – notoriously fragile and a hydrogeological risk.
Concludes the association in the note signed by Antonella Carolinational president of Italia Nostra, e Massimo Bottini of Italia Nostra Valmarecchia: “This heritage must be protected and cannot be devastated by such invasive works which, under the false flag of the ecological transitionthey lead us straight to the devastation of one of the most important treasures of our country, irreparably compromising the development of tourism”.
Of a completely different opinion, as in 2016, the mayor of Badia Tedalda, Albert Santuccio, which today is meeting with the Mountain Union of the Municipalities of the Valtiberina. In fact, the mayor sent a letter to the Tuscany Region in which he gives opinion in favor of the project, presented by the firm Fera srl of Milan. Among the reasons for yes, “the production of approx 30 megawatts of clean energy which Italy needs so badly”; moreover, the wind turbines will be installed – he writes – in an area where “there really is constant wind and which for over ten years has been the subject of anemometric studies which demonstrate the particular intensity and constancy of the wind”.
Santucci in the letter to the Region underlines “the importance of creating a great socio-economic induced of multi-year duration deriving from the construction, management and maintenance of the wind farm in marginal, depopulated and economically depressed mountain areas”. The last reason is the economic one, linked to the compensatory measure in favor of the municipalities up to a maximum of 3% of the proceeds deriving from the valorisation of the electricity produced annually by the plant.