The future on the sea of Calabria with green artificial islands in the Italian exclusive economic zone. This was stated by Emilio Errigo, extraordinary commissioner of the Site of National Interest (SIN) Crotone-Cassano and Cerchiara di Calabria. “The alternative energies to hydrocarbons and other environmental resources, called green, white and blue renewable energies – he points out – attract an ever-increasing number of researchers and groups of national investors and foreign investment funds, towards the valorization of the considered inexhaustible, renewable energy sources or, 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’ subjected to Italian national sovereignty”.
“Water, air and sun – he explains – have been and will always 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. Until the good God willing, 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 awaiting 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 – observes Emilio Errigo – 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 was appropriately valorised technologically , gave us solar thermal energy in large quantities, finally the air, did not remain stopped only by the sail blades of the windmills, so much so that today it is not uncommon to see in every hill or mountainous height, in an ugly environmental display, millions of so-called wind turbines, 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 until when). maritime platforms for exploration, research and extraction of hydrocarbons and other huge mineral resources, present in the underlying Calabrian continental shelf, will in the not too distant future be affected by the presence of numerous investors and groups of banking origin, both national and foreign”.
“The interest in marine areas – he comments – characterized by shallow waters typical of the numerous submarine banks located in the Italian continental shelf, with homogeneous leveled bathymetrics and the sea coasts of our beloved Calabria, finds foundation in the legal institutions of international maritime law , of the Exclusive Economic Zone and continental shelf, governed by the 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 of 2 December 1994, number 689, entitled: “ratification and execution of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, with annexes and final act, made in Montego Bay on 10 December 1982, as well as of the agreement on the application of part annexes, done at New York on July 29, 1994”.
“In the future – he warns – we will see here and there, in scattered order in the middle of the sea, not far from the maritime coastal strip of Calabria, green artificial islands appearing, habitable infrastructures equipped with all the energy resources and services necessary for living 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 – underlines Emilio Arrigo – 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, will make itself attractive to international markets and foreign merchants”.
