They are standing up against plans for wind turbines at sea. Tuesday evening, fishing professionals announced that they would not let "any vessel come to do these campaigns in the bay of Saint-Brieuc". Technical studies must be conducted off the coast of Côtes d'Armor, with a view to setting up an offshore wind farm there. The project carried out by the company Ailes Marines and by RTE (Electricity transmission network) provides for installation of 62 wind turbines located about fifteen kilometers from the Brittany coast.
But the fishermen refused and asked that "scientific elements on the effects of these technical studies" be brought to their attention. The Côtes d'Armor fisheries committee is notably waiting to know “the effects of noise linked to drilling and burial operations” on fish living in the bay.
Sixty-two 200 meter high wind turbines
70% owned by the Spanish group Iberdrola, the Ailes Marines consortium plans to install 62 wind turbines 216 m high 16 km from the coast closest to the bay of Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d'Armor). With its cumulative power of 496 MW, the park would supply 835,000 homes with electricity.
Already weighed down by a stormy winter and by the coronavirus epidemic, the fishermen evoke "a very complicated context" and regret that "Ailes Marines and RTE think they can get through in force". Exchanges have been carried out between fishermen and companies but have clearly not been sufficient. According to the Fisheries Committee, studies are due to start in May.
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