Among the ten offshore wind turbine projects that should emerge along the French coasts in the coming years, that of the bay of Saint-Brieuc crystallizes the tension.
This is an off-shore park project with 62 masts over 200 meters high fixed to the ground.
Problem: it must be installed in one of the most important scallops in the country, which is also a spawning area and migration of many other marine species.
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A few weeks before the start of the works, - they were planned at the beginning of this spring for a period of three years -, the relationship between the professionals of the sea and the project leader, the company Ailes Marines, a 100% subsidiary of the Spanish energy company Iberdrola, reach out.
"The fishermen do not want this project and they will not allow what they have been striving to preserve for many years destroyed
", warns Alain Coudray, president of the Departmental Committee for Maritime Fisheries and
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