The Committee is non-profit and aims to develop initiatives of a cultural, social and political nature
order to protect areas and buildings of environmental and documentary value located in the Municipality of Alessandria.
The “Salviano Le Cascine” Committee is a non-profit association that aims to
develop initiatives of a cultural, social and political nature in order to protect areas and buildings
of environmental and documentary value located in the Municipality of Alessandria.
The master plan of the Municipality of Alessandria, approved at the time, in art. 49 Bis individual
dua “….areas and buildings of environmental, architectural and documentary value..….” subjected
with special restrictions: in most cases these are historical agricultural realities,
scine, documentary evidence of our traditions, located in the suburbs of Cantalu-
po,Castelceriolo,Lobbi,San Giuliano Nuovo,San Michele,Spinetta Marengo,Valle San Bar-
Ptolemy, Valmadonna and Villa del Foro.
Among others, I remember the Cascina Maddalena in the Cristo area and the Cascina in Spinetta Marengo
Stortigliona, in Lobbi the Cascina Motta, in San Giuliano Nuovo the Cascina Ghilina, a building
historic building from the end of the 16th century built by the noble Ghilini family of Alessandria
and today owned by Count Niccolo’ Calvi of Bergaglio, former owner of the Castle of
Piovera and the Cascina Valmagra built at the beginning of the 19th century by Manfredo Balbo Bertone Conte di
Sambuy who was ambassador of the Savoy Kingdom to the Vatican and to France.
Great enthusiast of viticulture: the research carried out reports that in Cascina Valma-
gra insisted at that time the first plantation found in Italy of a well-known vine
called Cabernet.
Some of these farms are now abandoned, others are the headquarters of thriving businesses
agricultural and some of these, still, risk seeing their identity eroded and devastated
its ecosystem from the possible establishment of large induced photovoltaic systems
trials proposed by hedge funds without any impact on the territory.
Photovoltaic in agricultural areas: the issue has been debated in our country for some time
has a long regulatory history behind it.
The beginning could be identified in the approval of Legislative Decree no. 387 of the year
no 2003 (in transposition of a European directive) which established the possibility of installing
electricity production plants also in areas classified as agricultural by law
urban planning plans, all provided that the provisions regarding support are taken into account
sector,” with particular reference to the valorization of local agri-food traditions,
to the protection of biodiversity, as well as cultural heritage and the rural landscape”.
A concept also reiterated by the ministerial decree of 10 September 2010 containing
the guidelines for the authorization of plants powered by renewable sources.
The provision in question specified among the criteria for identifying unsuitable areas
to the Fer that agricultural areas could not be generically considered as such.
The only limitation introduced over the years in national regulations concerns the exclusion of
ground-mounted photovoltaic systems from state incentives, with the exception of agricultural configurations
voltage saved both by Legislative Decree 1 of 2012 and by the so-called Simplifications Decree Bis, obviously
true Legislative Decree 77/2021.
Some laws have also expressed their opinion on the relationship between photovoltaic systems and agricultural areas
regional for the identification of unsuitable areas, but in some cases exclusions or bans
rites inside have been considered illegitimate by the Constitutional Court, therefore all the wait of the sector is focused on the Suitable Areas Decree, still being defined, son of the Legislative Decree
8 November 2021 n. 199.
Certainly our country needs to increase its energy production
tics from renewable sources such as solar energy, but new and more stringent criteria are needed
protection of citizens’ right to health, guaranteed by art. 32 of the Constitution, and,
above all so as not to waste further fertile cultivated and integral agricultural land
of well-structured companies often led by young people who guarantee continuation
generational generation of activities, creating a modern rurality, putting all that into a system
that the territory can offer in terms of food, landscape, nature and culture of the territory, creating
in some cases I give food and wine tours and agritourism to make ours accessible
beauties.
Preserving the fertility of agricultural soils and their productive function is the prerequisite
fundamental for any idea of food sovereignty, first of all the possibility of pro-
produce food needed by local communities.
Indeed, the challenges and consequences of climate change, as well as the recurrence of disasters
environmental issues, pandemic events or international crises and conflicts take us more and more
frequently faced with the risk of widespread and impactful food emergencies.
What is compromised is the strong vocation not only for agriculture and agri-food, but
also touristic of our Region, a territory expression of a heritage rich in tra-
traditions, of which the farms are custodians with their typical products, which is the duty of
institutions preserve and protect: becoming aware that the rural landscape is a resource
it should become a priority national and regional strategy.
That of using a renewable energy source while consuming another resource
non-reproducible, the soil, which is a finite resource, does not appear to be a wise choice.
To the possible objection regarding the case of agrivoltaics, which we would like to leave
pass as not an object of land consumption, we intend to object that the raising
of the panels from the ground, in addition to increasing the so-called landscape impact, it does not limit the
negative consequences on the fertility of the land, such as the lack of sunshine
to, the unequal distribution of rainfall and the limitation of compatible cultural typologies
li : we then add another equally important consideration, namely the impact on
landscape determined by hectares of rows of panels is devastating, while for example
when the panels are integrated into the roofs the visual impact is minimal and the environmental impact is zero
There are many alternative spaces that can be used and redeveloped without com-
promise good quality soil rich in biodiversity like that of Piedmont: one
sustainable green transition goes from systems for self-consumption, roofing and par-
car parks, abandoned areas, quarries and mines, thus avoiding the consumption of agricultural land.
Furthermore, the possible health emergency to which residents are subject must be highlighted
in the immediate vicinity of industrial photovoltaic and wind power plants resulting, among others, from
effects such as electromagnetic pollution generated by transformation cabins and
power lines.
With regards to electromagnetic pollution, the Statute of the European Community invites
to apply the precautionary principle which states that “…it must be used with caution
and caution all those technologies that are certainly not harmless….”.
For greater clarity, this does not mean that accurate scientific studies have established
than the electromagnetic fields generated by large industrial photovoltaic systems
are harmful to humans, there is an ongoing debate on the merits, but it doesn’t mean either
that they are not as potential effects will be found in the medium to long term,
around 20 30 years old.
The situation is very different for electromagnetic emissions from a domestic system which
they are certainly tolerable for humans.
I would like to point out the notes from the Istituto Superiore della Sanità which, as far back as 1995, highlighted
cted the correlation between exposure and increased risk of childhood leukemia, while the International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2001 classified the electrical fields
tromagnetic as “….possibly carcinogenic to humans…” and I underline again
the term possibly.
Then there is the concrete possibility of a progressive extinction of bees: the researchers
from the University of Southampton in a 2019 publication called “..Increased
aggression and reduced aversive learning in honey bees exposed to electromagnetics
fields….increased aggression and reduced learning in exposed honey bees
ste to electromagnetic fields……” have shown that the exposure of bees of this kind
“Apis Mellifera”, the common honey bee, causes the alteration of electromagnetic fields
physiological and behavioral mechanisms that are responsible for the disappearance of whole
colonies: in recent years, all over the world, there has been a significant decrease in
tivity of pollinating insects with serious repercussions on agricultural production.
Bees ensure the pollination of 80% of agricultural species important for food.
human tation: if the extinction of bees were to occur, many fruits (orange, grapefruit,
mandarin, kiwi melon) and vegetables (tomato, cabbage, cauliflower, pumpkin, carrot, celery)
they could disappear from our tables in the near future.
It should be considered that meat consumption could also decrease due to the role of bees
in the reproduction of cereal and vegetable species (clover and alfalfa) used as
fodder for farm animals.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently defined electro-
magnetic pollutants, one of the most common and rapidly increasing pollutants in the environment, whose levels of
intensity are continually growing as technology advances.
Many renewable industrial plants have been installed in a wild way, often without
accurate on-site inspections: in most of the projects presented we speak generically –
lies, and unfoundedly, that there is no environmental impact on people and territories.
thorium, and a significant number of these plants, often built for speculative purposes only,
they were installed in agricultural areas, close to homes, and buffer zones, that is
minimum distances from individual buildings not respected
In reality for 20/30 years (the average duration of a system) those who reside in the
proximity to such plants could perhaps suffer potentially negative consequences
for one’s health: obviously the conditional is a must, but there is no evidence of the
opposite.
Therefore, the need for new, and more restrictive, regulations emerges: it must always be
a minimum distance of the systems from the homes is guaranteed in order to avoid absurd situations
impositions, or limitations, on the property of others with obvious prejudice to the detriment of others
are forced to suffer the effects of the proximity of vast facilities in the name
of the much-referred to today as “public utility”.
To this end, the “Save Le Cascine Committee”, also following a profound and accurate
confrontation with the newly formed trade union organization “Italian Autonomous Farmers”, note at
news for the multiple, and peaceful, protest demonstrations carried out at the beginning
year, in a constructive perspective aimed at dialogue with the Public Administrations
in full compliance, in some cases, with current regulations, it proposes four areas
topics for discussion:
AREA N. 1) CALLED “AGRICULTURAL LAND”
AREA N. 2) CALLED “AUTHORIZATION PROCESS OPINION”
AREA N. 3) CALLED “AREAS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF INDUSTRIAL PLANTS”
AREA N. 4) CALLED “BACKGROUND OF AREAS AND BUILDINGS EX ART. 49 BIS
PRG MUNICIPALITY OF ALESSANDRIA”
For any clarifications and updates please refer to
Save Le Cascine Committee
Via Doria n. 17
15122 San Giuliano Nuovo (Al.)
Email: [email protected]
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