Of Emilio Errigo – Alternative energies to hydrocarbons and other environmental resources, called green, white and blue renewable energies, attract an ever-increasing number of researchers and groups of national investors and foreign investment funds, towards the valorisation of energy sources considered inexhaustible, renewable or, for to put it in a more understandable summary, free resources present in the surface of the waters of the Mediterranean Sea and in the still available spaces of the underlying “International Continental Platform”, subject to Italian national sovereignty.
Water, air and sun have been and will forever remain the first and most powerful energies that living beings can freely enjoy, without prejudice to the legal obligation of strict observance of international treaty and conventional law. As long as the good Lord wants it, therefore, we will be able to benefit from the marine water resources and the underlying soil of the national maritime subgrade for purposes of exclusive national economic interest, in a vast maritime area, conventionally called “Exclusive Economic Zone”, already established and pending the expected proclamation in Italy, implementing the law of 14 June 2021, n.91, (GU n.148 of 23 June 2021), entitled: “Establishment of an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) beyond the external limit of the Territorial Sea ”.
Water, which by its very natural composition could also be called “white carbon”, constituted and represented for everyone the first energy resource for the production of energy, then came the sun, which, appropriately enhanced technologically, gave us great quantity of solar thermal energy, and finally of air, did not remain limited to the sail blades of windmills, so much so that today it is not uncommon to see millions of so-called wind turbines on every hill or mountainous height, in an ugly environmental display. , turning and turning without any peaceful respite in order to produce the much useful, desired, expensive and necessary electrical energy.
The vast spaces of the sea surface of Calabria, still free (it is not known for how long) from maritime platforms for exploration, research and extraction of hydrocarbons and other huge mineral resources, present in the underlying Calabrian continental shelf, will in the future not be far away affected by the presence of numerous investors and groups of banking origin, both national and foreign.
The interest in the marine areas characterized by shallow waters typical of the numerous submarine banks located in the Italian Continental Platform, with homogeneous leveled bathymetrics and the sea coasts of our beloved Calabria, finds foundation in the legal institutions of international sea law, of the “Zone Exclusive Economy and Continental Platform”, governed by (UNCLOS).
The Montego Bay Convention, signed in Jamaica, by the plenipotentiary representatives of the participating States adhering to the convention, on 10 December 1982, subsequently ratified also by Italy, with law 2 December 1994, n.689, entitled: “ratification and execution of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, with annexes and final act, done at Montego Bay on 10 December 1982, as well as the Agreement implementing Part
In the future, here and there, in no particular order in the middle of the sea, not far from the maritime coastal strip of Calabria, Green Artificial Islands will appear, habitable infrastructures equipped with all the energy resources and services necessary to live in total psychophysical well-being far from the chaos and carbon monoxide pollution of the city. International real estate agencies have already strained their ears before arriving at the appointment with unjustified delays compared to the foreseeable growing interests of national and foreign investment funds.
Maritime and coastal Calabria, therefore, increasingly attractive for its indisputable environmental charm unique in the world, with the foreseen possibility offered by conventional international law to authorize the construction of Artificial Islands, positioned in the middle of the sea in the most congenial areas, will become attractive from international markets and foreign merchants. It will be like this?
(Emilio Errigo contract professor of “international law of the sea” and “management of port activities” University of Tuscia, current Extraordinary Commissioner SIN Crotone-Cassano and Cerchiara di Calabria).
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