Like a lot of other foreigners, we also have fallen in love with the Terra Alta!
It is an exceptional place, a landscape of rare beauty with mountains and hills full of wildlife and flora that surprise every season! It's in marvelous balance with fincas cultivated for many generations (how beautiful it is when the almond trees are in bloom!), and all this without polluting industry!
Sparsely populated it gives you the calm to really distress. These are the places that we must preserve to the maximum if we can, there are so few left in the world!
Renewable energy is a good cause, but the concentration of wind farms planned in Terra Alta is a disgrace!
They are designed without any respect  for the villages nor for the nature and local heritage.  High voltage powerlines,(with their fire corridors) are wasting the countryside (as they waste the seacoast  already, for that matter).
BERTA the electricity company has recently made a request to get permission for several wind parks around Prat de Comte, people who are affected directly (for pylons will be on their farm) sent in petitions in cooperation with the Association of Defense de la Terra Alta; we must help them, because a lot of signatures are needed to impress the authorities.
Please print, sign and send the petition (written by local people) for the love of Terra Alta! Only in quantities can we win, if we are too few, nobody is going to listen!
May 4 being the deadline, there is only this week left to act!!! (the postal date is decisive).
Send an e-mail to : [email][/email]iris.cobben@orange.fr and I will send you the petition on the double!
Moltes gràcies! Iris.