Resource Library Category: France (13 items)
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Industrial Wind Energy in France
Source: 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 are there advocates of industrial wind energy, and what motivates them?
4. The racket in France.
5. Orders of magnitude of the scam.
6. The promoters want even more profit.
7. Wind energy and permanent employment.
8. Other nuisances.
9. Politics.
10. Annexes.
Telecharger «L’eolien industriel en France»
Evaluation de l'impact du parc éolien de Bouin (Vendée) sur l'avifaune et les chauves-souris
Source: 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 is estimated that 20% were migrating birds.
bat mortality: 6.0 to 26.7 per turbine/year, depending upon the year and the estimation method. It is thought that many of them were migrating. The bats showed no external injury. But the autopsies revealed that their internal organs had been destroyed, possibly as a result of high air pressure created by the blades. This is what we learn from the abstract and from an enclosing email from FED, which reports the words of a researcher 4 years ago at an ornithology meeting in the region (body imploded, internal organs destroyed):
“Il y a 4 ans, un chercheur aux journées internationales de l’avifaune à Menigoute dans les Deux Sevres avait dit: ‘lorsque l’on dissèquent ces cadavres, on dirait qu’ils ont implosés, l’aspect exterieur est intact et ce sont les organes internes qui ont été détruits’.”
Loi de consultation à l’implantation d’éoliennes
Source: 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 not only to make law, but also to encourage citizen participation.
“These are the reasons for which the present proposed law proposes to require, before any wind turbine construction project subject to public inquiry (wind turbines more than 50 meters tall), a referendum of the voters. The outcome of this referendum, which would concern not only the town of installation, but also those that would be visually affected by the project, would not legally require the concerned municipal councils who would remain masters of their decision. The area covered by the referendum would be determined by the communes concerned on the basis of the report of the investigating commissioner, who would be required to take into account the visual impact of the installation. Each commune would have the choice of holding the referendum on all of its jurisdiction or only in the geographic areas visually affected by the project.”
Téléchargez/Download “Loi de consultation à l’implantation d’éoliennes”
Estimate: €900,000+ to dismantle and dispose of one turbine
Source: 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. The nearest disposal site appears to be in Bellegarde.
The recoverable iron remains in our possession.
The total for an operation of this scope comes to 900,000 Euros [c. US$1,350,000] before taxes. The company that we would give the work order to must be assured of timely payment for the operation. A deposit of 30% will be required to start.
Our price is for a wind turbine of 3 megawatts. If there are several turbines of the same type to dismantle at the same time, the price may be reduced because of the presence already of the 700-tonne crane.
This price applies for the year 2008 and concerns only those wind turbines situated in the commune near the city. Demolition of the concrete footings is not considered in this estimate. [emphasis added]
This estimate does not take into account expenses engendered by obligations imposed on us by the DDE [infrastructure department] for the route or for setting up the various materials on the site. These expenses would be in addition to the stated estimate.
We remain at your service, for more information, and we ask that you accept, sirs, our sincere greetings.
J. Malafosse
President
Saint-Pierre S.A.S.
Télécharger/Download “Devis pour la démontage et la démolition des éoliennes”
Thanks to Fédération Environnement Durable for providing this document.
