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!
[u][b]May 4[/b][/u] 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.
 

[quote author=iris link=1240670810/0#0 date=1240670810]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!
[u][b]May 4[/b][/u] 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.

Move to another area if you don't like it!! I will not sign the petition!! Windmills and Hydo power are the solution as far as I am concerned for the future you just don't want any power lines or windmills near you land, but I still bet you want elactricity!!
 
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Windmills

Personally I like the look of them they look better than miles of electricity pylons striding over the countryside and causing leukemia due to there very high voltage lines

Give me Windmills and solar farms any day!!

May be they can build a nice Carbon fueled power station near to where you live in Terra Alta and festoon pylons all over the horizon!!

NIMBYS what can I say!

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well iris if you dont like what is done in spain then go back were you came from,to many people come too spain and then think they can tell the spaniards what they can and cannot do i dont think so

for your information : the powerline coming from these windmills carries 132.000 volt (Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya num.5340-17/3/2009).

do have a look at : http://www.wind-energie-halkema.org/vijf2.html , it can be read in english aswell.
I am sure you will understand better what I am trying to say.
My participation in this forum will end here. I wish you good health and a happy life with lots of friendly friends!
And........enjoy your last word (which I am sure you can't resist!).

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Don't throw your toys out of the pram on my account, you are perfectly entitled to your opinion and should stick to your guns no matter what a grumpy old geezzer like me says

You live in the Terra Alta Region I presume and therefore you should stick up for what you believe in, for your area don't take any notice of me as I don't live in your area, I live in the tortosa area and am quite happy with a huge solar farm nearby and the view of the windmills on the mountains and we have a set of pylons running through part of our land

Don't leave the Forum on My account!!

I to will add my voice to those saying don't leave the forum over a difference of opinion. Some people take this site very seriously and some are having fun(whilst offering and receiving advice). I never post to offend,for example, and usually have my tongue firmly in my cheek unless giving out advice. And I know that many others do too. Society is made up of many views and opinions and will sometimes clash but bear in mind there are many also reading the posts and not commenting. Don't take comments too personally.
Bruixot