Huge wind farm cancelled in court for 'visual saturation'

On Thursday, April 3, the Nancy Administrative Court annulled the Mont des Quatre Faux wind farm project on appeal for "visual saturation." Several residents of northeast Reims had opposed the installation of 63 wind turbines with a blade height of 200 meters in 2020. Their appeal against a decree from the Ardennes Prefect was ultimately dismissed at first instance, and the Nancy Court of Appeal finally ruled that the project would be regularize…