It is one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. A few kilometers from Aix-en-Provence, the Sainte-Victoire mountain, painted dozens of times by Cézanne, dazzles more than a million visitors every year. But this unique site is on the verge of being irreparably disfigured: 22 wind turbines 125 meters high will soon burst the viewpoint on the wonder. Despite numerous appeals and protests, private operators are driving the site by force. And this is not an isolated case: the French landscapes are covered every week with new wind turbines, the current park (8000 machines) having to more than double in size by 2028. Emmanuel Macron had however admitted, at the beginning of the year, that "the consensus on wind power is clearly weakening" in the face of outcry from defenders of heritage and landscapes, but the State has nonetheless decided to speed up, on the sly (taking advantage of confinement), the development of this mode of energy.
The situation
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