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Memory of the Canadian armed intervention desecrated by wind turbines in Lower Normandy

I - Letter to the Presidents of Canadian Veterans Associations
II - Letter from Edward Styffe, nephew of Mayor E. G. Styffe killed in Maizières in August 1944

Canadian military cemetery on the Caen plain

I - Letter to the Presidents of Canadian Veterans Associations

Excerpt from the letter of June 6th, 2009:

« Last summer, a tourist bus filled with Canadian visitors stopped at the Canadian monument erected in memory of the British Columbia Regiment, which is located on a hill called “Cote 111” belonging to the village of Rouvres. To the west of the plain is the Canadian military cemetery at Cintheaux/Bretteville-sur-Laize where Major Styffe is buried alongside 3 000 of his comrades.

They were surprised and shocked to see 8 windmills turning and flashing at 10 kilometers to the north and 10 others at 10 km to the south. They considered it to be a desecration. Since then 14 other machines have been erected to the north and 14 to the east of the Caen Plain. More are to be built since this region of Lower Normandy has been chosen to house the wind farms – anything between 200 and 500, no-one is sure of the numbers. »

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Association Basse-Normandie Environnement
Member of the Fédération Environnement Durable (FED) <www.environnementdurable.net>
and of the European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW) <www.epaw.org>

II - Letter from Edward Styffe, nephew of Mayor E. G. Styffe killed in Maizières in August 1944

This letter was sent on June 22, 2009 to Veterans Affairs Canada who forwarded it immediately to the office of the Minister of Veterans Affairs.

Excerpt:

« Canadian soldiers laid down their lives to save this land from the Nazis and it is virtually sacrilegious to see the pastoral countryside turned into a giant industrial complex. This a very real concern and I am writing to enlist your support to stop the spread of this blight on the pastoral landscape and the people of Normandy. »

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