Alfred Kappler plunges bitterly into the countless press clippings and deliberations of the Weil der Stadt city council, retracing four years of lost political struggle to install three 150-meter high wind turbines in the Merklingen forest.
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It was a painful conflict, mixing truths, half-truths and lies
", summarizes the environmental councilor of this village of 20,000 inhabitants located west of Stuttgart.
Governed by the Greens, in alliance with the CDU, the Baden-Württemberg region has made the development of renewable energies a central axis of its policy.
But in his canton, the vigorous fifty-something, who rolls 14,000 kilometers by bike each year, was overwhelmed on his left and his right.
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To the left appeared the defenders of the royal kite, a bird very present in the Swabian forest, which risked being torn to pieces by the blades.
To this endangered species were gradually added the owl
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