From the top of their 125-meter masts, they turn their giant blades in an often blue sky.
The twenty-two wind turbines installed in the Var, near the Sainte-Victoire mountain, remain as contested as ever.
Even if they have been operating for several months already in the middle of this landscape painted so many times by Paul Cézanne, associations and communities are still continuing.
Convinced that this project is based on a questionable procedure, due to a wobbly file, they attack the order of the prefect of May 29, which had precisely saved the operator by giving him a year to regularize his situation.
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This appeal, brought by the Sites & Monuments association, was examined on Friday by the Marseille administrative court of appeal.
It is not the first.
Already, the small town of Ollières, 650 inhabitants, and which supports 12 of the 22 masts, has attacked this same prefectural decree, which gave rise to a hearing on June 16 before the same judges.
Judgment is
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