Source : Christine Hugh-Jones, "Les éoliennes : vertes et vertueuses ?", Terrain, n° 60, mars 2013, p. 108-131.
Terrain est une revue publiée par le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.
Télécharger l'article (10 Mo)
Télécharger les illustrations (4 Mo)
Wind turbines are an increasingly controversial industrial feature of the European countryside. In the bitter local battles over individual wind farm proposals, single-issue alliances are made between individuals and groups with radically different sets of values with both pro- and anti-wind farm campaigners appealing to “the local community” and social justice. This paper uses British examples to show how an increasingly rich and powerful wind energy sector has manipulated the concept of “green” to convince political parties, the traditional green movement and conservation organisations that wind energy is a moral imperative. This presumption has resulted in a planning structure with an inbuilt positive feedback mechanism accelerating the rate of positive planning decisions and has effectively stifled national debate.