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Industrial Wind Energy in France
Author: Bonn, Pierre
Pierre Bonn is President of l’Association de Défense de l’Environnement en Nord Lauragais
Industrial wind energy is an environmental imposter that increases global warming emissions. The imposture is worsened by ripping off French consumers.
In effect, not only does it not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but the more wind energy, the more need for thermal plants that emit greenhouse gases.
Contents
1. Industrial wind energy is not able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
2. Industrial wind energy must be balanced by fossil fuel–fired plants.
3. Why . . .
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Evaluation de l'impact du parc éolien de Bouin (Vendée) sur l'avifaune et les chauves-souris
Author: Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux
“Evaluation of the impact of the Bouin (Vendée) wind energy facility on birds and bats”, by the Bird Protection League (France) Perrine Dulac, editor
Pour un sommaire français, voir à Fédération Environnement Durable (cliquer).
English summary by Mark Duchamp:
A five-year monitoring report of 8 wind turbines near the coast in Vendée, France, by the French ornithological society LPO (Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux), discloses the following:
bird mortality: 5.7 to 33.8 per turbine/year, depending upon the year and the estimation method. It . . .
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Loi de consultation à l’implantation d’éoliennes
Author: Marini, Philippe; et al.
Proposed law to require citizen consultation before siting of large wind turbines, recorded by the President of the Senate, 17 March 2008:
“If the expansion of wind energy is a good, it should not be translated, on the ground, by nuisance, including visual, so important to residents, or by disfiguration of the neighboring countryside.
“Moreover, the time when people could impose projects on the public is over. The application of information and transparency is today essential. Every elected official has the duty . . .
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Estimate: €900,000+ to dismantle and dispose of one turbine
Author: Malafosse, J.
Montpellier, January 29, 2008
Sirs,
Following the consultation that you asked for, here is the estimate that we propose for the dismantling and demolition of wind turbines in the commune of Saint Etienne de Lugdares.
The dismantling and demolition require the presence on site of:
One 700-tonne crane and two 50-tonne cranes.
A Copex CVM 500 metal press and shredder.
A team of five people for 30 working days for unbolting, blow-torching, and shredding the metal parts.
Class II disposal of the nonrecyclable parts of the turbine. . . .
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Industrial wind: a failure written in the European statistics
Author: Fédération Environnement Durable
[from "Eolien industriel: un échec en filigrane dans les statistiques Européennes"]
Does large-scale development of industrial wind energy actually reduce the consumption of fossil fuels or emission of CO2?
Comparison of per-capita wind and thermal electricity production and CO2 emissions in Germany, Denmark, Spain, and France.
Germany — most industrial wind facilities in the world (18,400 MW in 2005) –
2005: 10.6 tonnes CO2 per capita, 6.4 tonnes from electricity
+190% per capita production from wind from 2000 to 2005
+9% per capita thermal electricity production from . . .
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Conclusion of the Beaux-Arts Academy
Author: Académie des Beaux-Arts
One of the primary missions of the Beaux-Arts Academy is to guard our heritage with conservation and harmonious development.
In view of the considerations explored here, the Academy affirms:
1) That wind turbines, machines 150 meters in height, are contradictory to the French tradition that has always consisted of harmonizing architecture, however bizarre, with the countryside in respect of scale. The confrontation of such installations, which the promoters envision installing today in a massive way, with special sites and quality landscapes that . . .
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Les Eoliennes: Rapport de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts
Author: Académie des Beaux-Arts
Conclusion de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts
L’une des missions prépondérantes de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts est de veiller à la conservation et au développement harmonieux de notre patrimoine.
Au vu des considérations exposées ci-dessus, elle affirme :
1) Que les éoliennes, machines de 150 mètres de haut, sont en contradiction avec la tradition française qui a toujours consisté jusqu’à présent à harmoniser l’architecture, même insolite, avec le paysage en respectant son échelle. La confrontation de telles installations, que les promoteurs envisagent d’installer aujourd’hui de manière . . .
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L'éolien industriel: une imposture écologique, un scandale financier [Industrial wind energy: ecological fraud, financial scandal]
Author: Fédération Environnement Durable
Contents [translated from French]:
The Kyoto protocol: reduce emissions of greenhouse gases
The concept of sustainable development
Three pillars of the concept of sustainable development
Analyzing a technology according to the concept of sustainable development
Analysis of industrial wind energy against sustainable development
Pillar of economic responsibility
Technical and economic inefficiencies
Artificial financial bubble
Pillar of social responsibility
Cost-benefit balance for all
Cost-benefit balance for neighbors
Pillar of environmental responsibility
Negative impacts for humans
Negative impacts for animals
Negative impacts for biotopes
Conclusions
Industrial wind energy does not contribute to the objectives of Kyoto
Industrial wind energy is . . .
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Éoliennes, Sons et Infrasons: Effets de l'Éolien Industriel Sur La Santé des Hommes [Wind turbines, noise, and infrasound: effects of industrial wind energy on human health]
Author: Villey-Migraine, Marjolaine
Marjolaine Villey-Migraine, Docteur en sciences de l’information et de la communication, Université Paris II-Panthéon-Assas, Spécialiste de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (IST)
Décembre 2004
Made available by Vent du Colère
English excerpts (translated by National Wind Watch):
The Welsh Select Affairs Committee states on the subject of wind turbines, “In the case of existing wind energy facilities, we determine that there are cases of people who suffer nearly continuous noise when the wind turbines are operating, at levels that do not constitute a nuisance forbidden . . .