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The Financial Times: Top executives arrested in Italy wind farm probe The Washington Post: Clean Energy Splits France The Guardian: Plan to put wind turbines near Mont-St-Michel condemned The New American Magazine: Europeans Blown Away by Govt-Funded Wind Farms World famous Mont-Saint-Michel threatened by the wind farm scourge La Nouvelle République: J.-L. Butré, un Rullicois à l'assaut des moulins géants L'Européen: Le vent en poupe Libertad Digital: Cientos de asociaciones civiles solicitan una moratoria eólica a la UE Journal de l'environnement: Un moratoire européen sur l'éolien réclamé Reuters: Wind farm opponents call for European moratorium ANP: Pleidooi voor bouwstop windmolenparken in EU AFP: Des associations réclament la suspension des projets d'éoliennes en Europe
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Launch of NAWAG against wind farm development in the British countryside National Wind Watch supports European call for wind energy moratorium

INTERNATIONAL PROTEST MARCH
Mont-Saint-Michel (Normandy) – September 26, 2009

Hands off Mont-Saint-Michel!

Fédération Environnement Durable (FED) , supported by:

  • Basse Normandie Environnement (BNE),
  • Fédération Bretonne pour l'Environnement (FBE),
  • Fédération Nationale des Associations de Sauvegarde des Sites et Ensembles Monumentaux (FNASSEM),
  • the European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW),

organises an international protest march on September 26, 2009, to save Mont-Saint-Michel and to denounce the massacre of our natural and cultural heritage by the wind farm scourge.

1. More details: World famous Mont-Saint-Michel threatened by the wind farm scourge
2. Take action now: Support local associations and send a postcard
3. Visit the website specially designed for this event: S.O.S. Mont-Saint-Michel
Starting point: At the foot of Mont-Saint-Michel, entrance to the car park, at 1:30 p.m.

S.O.S. Mont-Saint-Michel

Mont-Saint-Michel
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World famous Mont-Saint-Michel threatened by the wind farm scourge:

no less than 9 wind projects are being planned!

It has been part of UNESCO's World Heritage for 30 years.

Wind turbines higher than the highest point of Mont-Saint-Michel!

The wind turbines, 100-metre high, implanted on hills 125-metre high, will reach 225 metres above sea level.

They will be higher than the highest point of the Mont-Saint-Michel (the spire of the steeple - 170 metres), dwarfing it as people approach the world-famous landmark from land or sea. And, of course, they will be clearly visible from the Mont-Saint-Michel.

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No less than 9 wind projects are being planned!

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S.O.S. Mont-Saint-Michel

A new website was just created - sos-montsaintmichel.info - to inform about the great international protest march to be held September 26th, 2009, to save Mont-Saint-Michel and to denounce the massacre of our natural and cultural heritage by the windfarm scourge.

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Sunday 19 July 2009

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