Wind standing against wind turbines on an industrial scale
03/08/09 à 11h04
A national petition has been launched by activists who believe that setting up wind farms in rural areas is anti-ecological.
Yves Vérilhac is not against wind turbines but he is an opponent of "industrial anti-wind turbines". The former director of the Parc des Monts d'Ardèche is at the origin of a national petition calling for a ten-year moratorium on the installation of industrial wind turbines.
"If you have a small wind turbine in your garden like you have a solar panel, you are independent and you use the energy optimally. If you put factories in the countryside, what is wrongly called 'wind farms' , but that you remain in a very centralized network and full of leaks, that does not have any more any interest “, explained Monday on Europe 1 Yves Vérilhac. "If I am told that this wind turbine allows to reduce nuclear power, I will cry a lot but I would sign. In this case, nothing proves it", adds this ecologist who assures that he did not fall on the head.
Its argument therefore has an economic basis, but it also takes into account the requirements in terms of landscape protection. "The most beautiful sites are trivialized, the campaigns upset. All without any guarantee of result", specifies the text of the petition.
This initiative was launched in Ardèche where many projects are in the pipeline, notably near the source of the Loire, Mont Gerbier-de-Jonc. A first petition collected in this very rural department more than a thousand signatures. Among them, those of the humorist Yves Lecocq or the three-star chef Régis Marcon.
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