Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Not too sure what forumites and ex-soldiers will think of the French plans for an offshore wind farm to be built on the historic landing beaches of Normandy. Critics say it will 'desecrate' the D-Day beaches.
British veterans, gathering in northern France today for the 67th anniversary of the Normandy landings, have spoken out against the proposals.
The scheme, announced earlier this year by President Nicolas Sarkozy, would see at least 80 525ft generators placed less than ten miles off the landing beaches with some installations being placed on Juno beach.
Is it time to let go? or should these sites be preserved? Over to you....
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Brian Dixon
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Brian
Thanks I have edited the above post. I was having a 'Junior' moment.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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marek,
i was having a elderly moment.
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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I will wait and see what the reality of this is. I have only been able to find some online references from the Daily Mail and a few anti-wind farm groups but nothing to balance the case. I am not sure I would have any objection, however, if they are so far offshore.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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So you've let the cat out of the bag Marek........you're old enough to have a Junior moment
You know what they say, when you get to a certain age you revert back to childhood, one of the blessings of getting old
Jan Higgins
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If the wind farms are ten miles from the beaches I can see nothing wrong but am uneasy about the "installations" on the beach, surely these could go a little way inland with an extra bit of pipework.
Yes, I do think it is time to move on but never to forget the awful loss of life.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The ones off Herne Bay are 7 miles away so 10 miles they will barely be visible !
Been nice knowing you :)
Is it time to let go NO Never two many good men lost on them beaches, the two can work together as the turbines will be out at sea and not on the beaches were the men set foot now that would be Sacrilege
the world must move forward so lets see wot is proposed before we go off half cocked.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, UNESCO, Prefect of Lower Normandy, Allied and European Ambassadors, Allied Veterans Associations Port Winston Churchill Association of Arromanches - Basse Normandie Environnement (BNE) - Federation Environnement Durable (FED) - European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW)
With no exception our organizations regard this as an invasion of sacred grounds where so many warriors gave their lives for your country and our freedom.
Matt Bristow- Location: Whitfield, Dover
I cant see anything wrong with this. Smacks of 'oldtimeitus'!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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rather surprising the level of discontent with the idea, reading through the thread it seems that the turbines will be nowhere near the beaches.
maybe there is something that we have not been informed of?
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Been nice knowing you :)
Ross Miller
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Of course it doesn't - but hey it is the Mail after all...
The majority of the time the turbines would be invisible from the beaches due to haze, mist, fog etc. and even on a crystal clear day they would hardly impinge on the view
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Many farms in France are situated in the immediate vicinity of WW1 trenches. I'm talking of metres, not miles.
No-one says it's sacrilege.
How can 10 miles be too close to the D-Day landing sites?
In 1942, the British and Canadians carried out the Dieppe raid, which ended with thousands of casualties among the Canadians and British.
There are many places where battles have been fought, but people do not sit down and declare them all "sacred no-go areas".
The memory of the fallen lives on, there are many ways to commemorate, but not by declaring a 10 mile exclusion zone out to sea from a battlefield!
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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alex,i have been to the ww1 trenches and wind farms are none exsistat near them,and by the way where did you get that idea from.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Not wind farms, Brian, just farms. The WW1 trenches extend over many miles, but millions of soldiers fought there. There are farms nearby.
My point was, that many battlefields are close to economic installations of some form or another.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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alex,not putting to finer point on the subject i have been to most of the cemertries,trenches and other ww1/ww2 sites in belguim and france.the farms and the farmers who farm in the areas that have these wonderfull things dotted around on the farms look after them well and report any damage to the cwgc commission.as do the people who live near these sites in town and villages.
I think it is time to move on and if windfarms can help the environment they are a good thing. The Normandy landings and D-Day will not be soon forgotten but time and life move forward. What better tribute to the men who lost their lives than a way to help the world roll on without depleting its resources further?
Well said that man.
