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In the Lot, a photovoltaic park divides the inhabitants

2022-10-23T20:08:37.527Z


STORY - Near Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, the most beautiful village in France, the TotalEnergies project on 19 hectares is causing tension. Petition and march follow one another against this program which requires deforestation.


Will we still be able to see, sheltered by a dry stone wall, the ocellated lizard, the screaming stone curlew or the blue thyme?

On the outskirts of the village of Tour-de-Faure, in the Causses du Quercy regional natural park, the TotalEnergies photovoltaic park project worries residents and nature lovers.

“Twenty hectares of forest will be replaced by a forest of photovoltaic panels, next to Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, voted the most beautiful village in France!

says Thomas Brail, founder of the National Tree Watch Group.

Under the guise of doing green stuff, they are screwing up nature

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While a petition has brought together more than 400 signatories, a march is scheduled for next Saturday, along the 12 km of trenches planned for connection to the national electricity grid.

This park of some 19 hectares will have 44,000 photovoltaic panels one meter above the ground, installed for a period of thirty years.

Under which sheep will graze.

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Source: lefigaro

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