Thirty-one wind turbines and one conviction. Which not only resulted in criminal liability for having "destroyed" the avifauna with the rotations of the turbines, wrote the French judge, but also brought with it a series of fines for ten companies and the CEO of the leader.
The ruling that has already made the rounds in the transalpine country comes from the Montpellier court, "the first of its kind" and therefore destined to set a precedent in Italy too.
Stefano Deliperi, president of Grig, the Legal Intervention Group, recovers the petitions on the subject already presented and "Sardinianizes" the problem, which also closely concerns our Island. "Here, the species most at risk are basically griffon vultures. But there is a danger for all migratory birds: from the Eleonora's falcon to the Egyptian vulture, passing through the thrushes. We cannot forget flamingos and cormorants, however less exposed".
It was the environmentalists of Fne, France nature environnement Occitanie-Mediterranean, who started the duel with official documents over the death of lesser kestrels in the Hérault wind farm.
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