Why the Wind Farm Attack Is an Example of Ecoterrorism

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As expected, ecoterrorism is back, when Luddism disguises itself with the green flag of environmentalism . Last week, two violent attacks were carried out against renewable energy sources. About fifty people wearing hoods and armed with pickaxes and knives terrorized the workers and lumberjacks who were building a wind farm consisting of 7 propellers on the very windy Monte Giogo del Villore, in Mugello next to the Muraglione pass between Tuscany and Romagna, in the municipality of Dicomano. The plant under construction belongs to the municipal company Agsm of Verona. They destroyed some of the works with shovels and pickaxes. After the attack, as a precaution, the construction vehicles were moved 8 kilometers away. A day has passed and the self-styled mountain rebels have walked along dark paths in the mountains and threatened the workers again; As soon as the carabinieri left the construction site, the Luddites emerged from the woods at dusk and destroyed a large number of concrete mixers, excavators, and bulldozers . Anyone who knows the cost of construction machinery - hundreds of thousands of euros each - has an idea of ​​the economic extent of the damage. The construction site will be closed for a long time. Similar attacks occurred last year in Sardinia. After these violent events, it will be difficult for many of Italy's renewable energy projects to find companies willing to work on clean energy construction sites. Fossil hydrocarbons win 1-0 against renewable sources.

Who was it? The black-anarchy balaclavas are transparent: last week, announced by paper flyers and calls via Telegram, the We Are Mountain movement met in the woods. Here are some of the events scheduled at the Lotta Campsite. Thursday, July 3, “chat on the various methods and approaches to forest struggles”; Friday, July 4, discussion on the links between war and infrastructure; Saturday, July 5, mobilization against the project; Sunday, July 6, assembly on the prospects for struggle. Statement by the Luddite campers on the first attack: “With picks and hoes we brought the water back above the forest road with the hope that it can still nourish the earth and the chestnut trees” . There is also a political document, entitled “Crinali Ribelli, disarmaamo l’eolico in Mugello”, published by the magazine Nunatak, which in six pages indicates the infrastructures to be hit (the wind farm but also the Snam methane pipeline, the high-speed line between Bologna and Florence, the A1 motorway and so on) and concludes: “If we want to desert the war and remove the world that makes it inevitable, we must disarm its infrastructures”.

In Mugello, what happened 180 years ago in England with the arrival of the new diabolical invention, the train, is being repeated, with its construction sites being attacked and the first convoys being hit by stones. That is, the Luddite and misoneist opposition with which the intellectual bourgeoisie opposes the evolution of society and looks back to an imaginary past, an infantile golden age threatened by the horror of technology and the artificial is being repeated. The pattern is being repeated among the climate smearers and even among the extreme German fringes that could be defined as the Grüne armee faktion . A nod to Germany. Tadzio Müller, former representative of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and co-founder of the Ende Gelände group, has stated in several interviews that “many violent acts will occur against material goods such as off-road vehicles, motorway construction sites or gas-fired power plants”. There you have it.

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