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The
National Landscape Committee (Comitato Nazionale del
Paesaggio) was founded in Rome in 2001. Today it counts
members from 15 Italian regions. Its activity is connected
with several local committees bravely objecting, since a long
time, against the destruction of the Italian landscape. With
the shared persuasion that our landscape is much more than
what has been destroyed, the Committee has decided to assume,
for the future, the task for a more strictly surveillance and
defence than what done in the past.
The National Landscape Committee has settled a dispute,
on a national level, on already existing, in preparation and
proposed windfarms. The windfarms, for their huge number of
towers, for their obstruction, for their enormous measurement,
for the environamental impact due to the access roads for the
transportation of the towers, and their subsequent operation,
for the necessary earth levelling for the building up of the
cement platforms for each tower, for the power grids necessary
to convert wind into energy, represent today the highest risk
for the landscape and the natural environment of the Pre Alps,
the Apennin, Sicily and Sardinia areas.
The forthcoming windfarm projects in Italy must be considered
on their real data: the 700 Mw installed in the last five
years cover no more than 0.5% of the national power demand.
And in Campania, Apulia, Molise, Abruzzi, Sardinia, this has
determined serious losses on natural environment, and
discomforts for the inhabitants, deprived of any sort of
touristic future in their territories.
The National Landscape Committee agrees with the Kyoto
Protocol: To promote new and renewable forms of energy. But
not at high environmental, historical and cultural unbearable
costs, as it is happening with windfarms in Italy.
Carlo
Ripa di Meana
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