The Court of Appeal of Toulouse had recognized in July a “abnormal neighborhood disorder” caused by the proximity of a wind farm and sentenced the operators of this park to pay more than 100,000 euros to a couple living in The village of Fontrieu.
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This is a unpublished court decision, dating back to a few weeks, which are welcomed the opponents of wind turbine facilities, Monday, November 8. A couple of Belgian residents of a wind farm in the village of Fontrieu (Tarn) has been successful as part of a complaint filed against operating companies.
The Court of Appeal of Toulouse had recognized in July a “abnormal neighborhood disorder” caused by the proximity of a wind farm and sentenced the operators of this park to pay more than 100,000 euros to this couple.
Christel and Luc Fockaert asked for compensation of some € 350,000 to the park operators, withdrawing their health problems – feeling of oppression, vertigo, headache – at the presence of six wind turbines located near their home, the closer to 700 meters, a distance in accordance with the regulations. Having left their homes in 2015, they also invoked the loss of enjoyment of their home and the fall of its value.
Headache and vertigo
m. and M me Fockaert, who had not disputed the implementation of the wind turbines, claim to have begun to suffer from headaches and vertigo, their state of health having aggravated after the cup, In 2013, a wood that was screening between their house and the park.
This decision of the Toulouse Court of Appeal recognizes the reality of the existence of a wind syndrome, resulting in an alteration of the state of health. In May 2017, the National Academy of Medicine published a report on the sanitary nuisances of the terrestrial wind turbines, studied by the National Academy of Medicine and the ANSES, the National Agency responsible for the Health Safety of Food, of the ‘A environment and work, as the dauphiné released
The wind syndrome is defined as “a set of very diverse symptoms reported to the nuisance of wind turbines”. The National Academy of Medicine also notes that these symptoms “only concern part of the residents, which raises the problem of individual susceptibilities”.
The 12 symptoms of the Eolien syndrome according to Dr. Nina Pierpont https://t.co/a1s40jvlsi https://t.co/2ypfxyqmds //p>- adesaa3 (@adeaa) interrogated by France 3 Occitanie on November 6 , the couple expressed his” relief “in the light of this victory obtained at the ‘outcome of a long fight. “It’s pretty unpublished,” said their lawyer Alice Terrace, believing that it was “no preceding”. Before notifying: “But be careful, this is not” duplicate “. This park generates abnormal nuisance in its configuration, but each case is particular and must be examined.”
According to the associations Federation sustainable environment (Fed) and platform European form against the industrial wind (EPAW), this judgment of the Court of Appeal of Toulouse could trigger a “multitude of trials and requests for compensation” in France where, “under the pressure of the industrialists of the Wind, the protection distance is still 500 meters “.
They ask the governments of the countries that implant wind turbines to take action “to protect the residents, in particular by defining sufficient security zones around homes” and “recommend a distance of ten times the height at the end of blades, 1,500 meters for a wind turbine of 150 meters high “.