You can find the original italian version of this article in the number 2 of Piratpartiet.it, January 2008. Here is the link to the archive.

A beautiful land in danger
Val di Noto - an unspoiled land in south east Sicily (Italy) – was declared UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002, mainly because it is an outstanding testimony of late Baroque art and architecture. Curiously, just two years after the Sicilian Region consented to Panther Oil, a Texas company, carrying out hydrocarbon searches in the land. The local community immediately stood up for the defense of its land and its local economy: in fact the UNESCO nomination had furthered a lot of touristic and agricultural initiatives, which obviously felt threated by the upcoming drillings.
This fact reached the mainstream media in the June of 2007, thanks to an appeal by Andrea Camilleri, famous writer and creator of Inspector Montalbano, main symbol of Sicily in the modern italian imaginary. The day after this appeal was translated and republished by foreign newspapers such as Times, Guardian and Le Monde. As a result, a week after Panther Oil decided to give up the drillings... but just in 10% of the land.. so it was a bluff, the story continues..stay tuned here: www.notriv.it