[Newsbot]

Title: France criticized for approving wind farms on D-Day coast
Category: World
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-07-20 00:51:02
Canadian

[martin14]

A link to the petition is here:

http://www.epaw.org/petitions.php?lang=en&article=p1

[Guy_Fawkes]

That's balls, but Im glad to hear Juno wont be effected.... yet.

[GreenTiger]

The beaches themselves aren't in an danger as the wind wars would be an offshore facility. These days energy generation is a momentous challenge just like throwing off Nazi Germany was in the 1940s.


I am the first one to stand up to anybody who would denigrate what those brave men dis back then. They saves the world from a darkness that could have eclipsed this planet for decades.

As long as these things don't detract from the D-Day events I don't see a problem here.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Oh for fuck sakes. They're being built 10km offshore. Some people need to get a grip.

[Regina]

It's a ways inland and from what I remember of the drive it's just under an hour from the beach. Windfarm developers have targeted the plain of Caen-Falaise and Trun. This is the area during the war that was known as "The Gap"

[PublicAnimalNo9]

I was under the impression these farms were being built out in the water like Denmark's. That's the impression I get when they use the term "offshore".

[Brenda]

This is what you see from the coast (I used to live on the coast in The Netherlands, with wind farms 10 kms off the coast):


It is not my picture, tho. It is where I lived tho

[Dragon-Dancer]

Seeing as how windy those beaches get it actually seems like a good place for a wind farm. I don't see what all the fuss is about, none of this is any slight to veterans.

[BartSimpson]

I'm not seeing a problem nor am I seeing any insult to the memories of the war dead.

[sandorski]

NIMBYism gone mad.

[EyeBrock]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

I'm not seeing a problem nor am I seeing any insult to the memories of the war dead.

I agree Bart. But the Limey in me enjoys sticking it to the French! Fuckers!

[martin14]

Guy_Fawkes Guy_Fawkes:

That's balls, but Im glad to hear Juno wont be effected.... yet.

Not directly, but other beaches will.

$1:

With construction starting in 2015, the wind farms will be very close to the site of the so-called "Mulberry Harbour" built by Royal Engineers at the seaside town of Arromanches.

Gérard Lecornu, president of the Port Winston Churchill Association of Arromanches.

"They will be visible from all the Normandy landing beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold Juno and Sword," he said.

From the Telegraph.


And it also mentioned the mills would interfere with evening time memorials.


Mulberry B, at Arromanches, supplied British and Canadian troops.

[Canadian_Mind]

I don't see the issue...

[herbie]

$1:

"It’s hard to visualize but I don’t see how they’d be any harm,” said Webb, a 92-year-old D-Day veteran. “It’s now the 21st century and you’ve got to go with these things. I don’t think it’s offensive.”

92 and common sense.