Overview

• Masked assailants estimated at fifty armed with knives and accompanied by dogs illegally occupied the Mugello site on July 2–3, seizing chainsaws and inflicting hundreds of thousands of euros in machinery damage
• Carabinieri and Florence’s Digos have opened inquiries into the incursions and the Florence prosecutor is set to launch a formal investigation
• Agsm Aim Spa lodged a complaint with the Carabinieri of Borgo San Lorenzo and insists on proceeding with construction under the project’s public utility status
• The €35 million wind farm approved under Italy’s National Energy and Climate Plan remains under appeal at the Council of State despite declarations of public utility by the Tuscany Region and Council of Ministers
• Environmental groups warn that installing seven 168-metre turbines on a vital ecological corridor endangers protected species and exacerbates hydrogeological risks flagged by two Soprintendenze