It is not always in vain to fight against windmills.
Especially when they are several meters tall.
A couple from Tarn has just obtained more than 100,000 euros in compensation for the installation of a wind farm near their property.
The decision of the Toulouse Court of Appeal dates from July 8, 2021 and it is because it is no longer subject to appeal that the group All our Energies, which supported the Fockaert spouses, broadcast it this Saturday. on his site.
The plaintiffs bought their farmhouse in 2014 in the town of Margnes (now merged with Fontrieu).
The six wind turbines were installed in 2008 and 2009 on the heights of their property, the closest at 700 meters, the furthest at 1,300 meters.
Sleep ailments and disturbances
In 2013, when a wood which served as a buffer zone was cut, they began to feel repercussions on their health: sleep disturbances, anxiety, malaise, what the scientific literature calls the "wind syndrome" caused by propagated infrasound. in air and soil.
To the point that they had to move in 2015.
While the couple had been dismissed in January 2020 by the court of Castres, the Toulouse Court of Appeal judges the wind turbines "responsible for abnormal disturbances in the neighborhood".
It grants the Fokaert reparations for the loss of value of their property but also, and this is unprecedented, “for the suffering endured”.
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Tarn: A couple thinks that wind turbines made them sick, they ask for 350,000 euros in compensation
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