UPDATE               SEPTEMBER 2018

For over 4 years now, the residents of Saint Barbant and neighbouring communes have been expressing their concerns and registering their disapproval of the planned wind turbine project for the commune.

In September 2016, WPD submitted their application to the Prefecture. A public enquiry should have commenced in Spring 2017. NO details given on the reason for this delay!

Now in September 2018, with just barely 3 weeks notice to the residents, a public enquiry is announced for the project to build 4 wind turbines of over 180m in height. Little time given to residents who may have holiday homes, and who have gone home for the Autumn. Boards of information in tiny print are visible if you look for them, around the villages. Stuck the far side of ditches, so that in fact you can't read the vital information, telling you the dates and times of the enquiry.

Once more evidence of the underhand manner of this project, and the wish to push this through without true public consultation.

The enquiry lasts for one month only, commencing Monday 17th September & ending on Wednesday 17th October with just 6 half days in this period to allow residents to register their views in person.

We NEED your support. This small commune of just over 300 residents, is in a poor agricultural area but is of the most beautiful and unspoilt landscape. So many have made this their home, investing in their houses, converting old and sometimes derelict homes. English speaking families, keeping schools, shops and restaurants alive. It has already been noted by major estate agent chains, gite and bed & breakfast owners that as house hunters become aware of these plans, they are turning their back on the area. 

What happens when they stop investing in the area, who will buy your home? What if your home becomes unsaleable? This is the first phase of turbines, 4 now, then another 4 and another. The next might be just 500m from your home. What happens when the region is spoilt by hundreds of turbines, (700 planned in the Limousin), and the tourists stop coming. This will hit the economy and many of our livelihoods.

Whether a local resident or a concerned friend of our campaign...please sign this petition. We have just until the 17th October to submit and after this our voices are silenced, unless through the courts.

PLEASE SIGN. SAVE SAINT BARBANT and give a clear message to the Prefet....NO WIND TURBINES / STOP EOILENNES