Over the past twenty years, they have grown these tall white masts, like the “languid and always angry bird” at which Apollinaire was astonished. After the era of thermal power stations, after the opprobrium cast on nuclear power, wind turbines appeared, white, slender, innumerable. Soon, they covered France, massively: the expression "field of wind turbines" says it well enough.
Today, there are hardly any installation projects that do not meet with strong opposition. Resistance does not necessarily take a spectacular form, but appeals are multiplying, filed by resolute associations: the impression of excess is general, and residents are overwhelmed. Natural sites and architectural gems are threatened by the untimely arrival of these sad herons with long beaks and long necks. A sling wind blows over the country, not to drive the heavy blades but on the contrary to stop them.
In front of these arrows, perhaps graceful from afar, certainly
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