France: WW2 Veterans Oppose Normandy Offshore Wind Project

The French government plans for construction of a wind farm off the Normandy coast are being objected because of the historical significance of the area in question, writes the Toronto Sun portal.

Though the government said that the turbines will hardly be visible from the beaches, the World War II veterans consider the project as a violation of the D-Day memory.

However, proponents of the project defend it with the matter of clean energy and its capability of generating electricity comparable with two nuclear power plants.

Normandy’s offshore wind farm is a part of a bigger plan to place hundreds of wind turbines along France’s Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines by 2020. Tenders for its construction are being awarded this year and the first running wind turbines are expected by 2015.

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Offshore WIND staff, May 28, 2012; Image: The Royal British Legion