Sharing Landscape, Wealth Sharing Carte blanche sur les Eoliennes.
Par Bernard Delville, civil engineer,
initiator of the "wind children " Mesnil Church.
Administrator vzw Wind Houyet www.vente-houyet.be
Sharing Landscape, Wealth Sharing
few years ago, six exactly, naive and believe we started the project of "wind of children." A wind turbine industry, worth one million euros, owned by children. A simple act, unifying, caring and successful. The wind in the service of man in a lyrical metaphor: Property Exclusive children and our children. This project is now unanimously, it has no opponents.
It is therefore strange that, in many projects, wind turbines called "adult", these consumers bulimic kilowatt-hours, fall outside the accepted symbol for the child and they can crystallize conflict "for or against "irrational and often unsubtle and without good arguments.
Because this discussion "democratic" generates subjective passions it comes to neglecting the state emergency response to climate challenges. It creates a form inertia too quickly called prudence and, worse, it hinders the initiatives. This debate has an epicenter, a recurrent theme, which an individual identifies with failing to have done in previous situations mile. This keyword, huge, overused to the extreme: MY LANDSCAPE.
is quite extraordinary that the wind apparently disappeared recreates the link between man and the arrangement of the nature that surrounds it. The trench of a highway, the erection of telecom towers or masts, the fungus or steam Tihange Chooz, urban parks in economic or commercial architecture lambda neighbor's house, his lawn mower and its turbo, nothing moves us.
The Wind, an object that works a priori for our true welfare is, it causes controversy. Object placed for twenty years, far more necessary than pop groove highway, a "heart" to nuclear or commuter HLM Fel concrete, the wind is not an irreversible solution, it may need to n ' occupy the place that time: time to resolve other issues that haunt us today. This is
challenging point and irrational, that I wind farm developer, I must document the issue to try to answer them.
The vernacular landscape, designed by man.
Nature on the planet does not care to draw landscapes. Nature builds the great scenery. The animals on earth interfere very little in the spatial organization, they are adapting.
Only man for thousands of years, acts and modifies the natural order. He cleared, sow, plant, diverting streams, trace paths, roads, deforestation, dig mines, piles of earth, creating ports, and concentrated urbanized habitats, spread, always changing the "territory" with or without development plans ...
Prrrrtff! ... It never ceases to expand its control to the overdose.
Few places today, me, child of yesterday, I found fifty years later the picture chromosome of my childhood. Everything is changed. Everything is "other", smoothly, without seeming to touch.
By changing the natural order, the man seen at any time the results of its efforts and because he has a soul Builder insatiable, irrational sense of aesthetics and form, he is proud of his work, previous work "founder." He likes, admires and this amendment appropriates it, he gives her a name: landscape, panorama view of heritage.
"Landscape" speaks to him. He has the unconscious memory of all efforts, from generation to generation. He reassured by its durability, its strong presence. It connects to time by the sound (bell, train, animals, agricultural machinery ...) by color (the seasons, fields and crops ...) by the movement and scent the air ... It is as hostile (clouds plants, traffic ...), the worried because ever changed ...
Yet this constantly changing nature of space is far that man looks: the well-being, improving their living conditions. For man seeks to live better. The train and the motorway are accepted by users, the commercial zoning and parking is very crowded. Tihange has its supporters because everyone, here we find all our advantages. The time for "inconvenience" may be just around the corner, but admits?
The sacred landscape that form between the tangible and the imaginary. This explains that every public consultation, most opponents of a wind farm does not live near the site. They come from elsewhere, in the name of a "safeguard duty" with lucidity or stupidity they arrogate to themselves.
Landscapes two-tier policy or lived
cash So the landscape changes. But according to the scale and the underlying reason for these, the definition landscape takes two distinct directions. At the
change is great, on the decision rests with the state. Hence expropriations for community facilities, plans in priority sectors, regional planner with no real implications for people.
At all times and in all civilizations major work "across" the state (roads and canals, aqueducts, urbanization, walls and enclosures and railways, highways, electrification, water supply, pipelines, sewage , zoning of activities ...), work useful and necessary, require little appreciation quidam. It also endorses souvent les bouleversements car il y trouve son compte. Le paysage est ici un paysage politique façonné d’en haut pour le bien public.
Dans cet ordre d’idée on comprend la position du gouvernement wallon en terme d’implantation d’éoliennes : en privilégiant l’implantation de grands parcs, interférant malgré tout dans l’espace visuel des riverains, le choix est pragmatique : il vise à l‘efficacité immédiate, avec un paysage qui s’y accommode. Un paysage façonné par le POLITIQUE.
Hélas, le choix des sites n’est pas planifié à l’avance, il est laissé the assessment of project, planning the most pressing barrier, which creates telescoping between several projects, one can rule out the less good time, best in terms of gross output.
A wind map, yes, but subservient to the emergency room!
You get to claim that the political landscape, to be acceptable, focuses on project performance, based on criteria of efficiency rather than CO ² landscape or financial considerations. A wind map, yes, but based on a set of criteria Strong all subservient to the urgency and priority bonus "climate."
Then, since the state waives invest oneself in public infrastructure, "concessions windy" true collective heritage, should be subject to mandatory tender open to local participation. Unacceptable effect Mesnil-Eglise is hedged around fifteen wind related to the shareholders of Suez and Gaz de France and not the least benefit to indigenous people, the local bumpkins.
This introduces a very different definition of the concept of political landscape with a very local approach and sustainable wind adventure.
The inhabited landscape is the art of living in the country!
In their analysis and research, landscapers often speak of landscapes inhabited . Here the landscape is designed by the resident at his own pace and dimension. Inhabited landscape, a landscape shaped by him who dwells-the-country!
The sector plan seeks to align agricultural policy, crafts and habitat that are constantly modulate the collective space. Here, the decision on a permit to build or operate depends strongly on the joint commission of its land ... Any change has a connotation local negotiated. It will involve directly close capita. It is this landscape before us, we rural people the last small populations of natural parks and Famenne Ardenne and it is this landscape that we want to discuss. This landscape because we claim that we inhabit.
In the landscape, bottom left is me, one of the inhabitants .
The inhabitant of the country knows better than anyone his country, its villages, fields and forests, ridges and valleys ... On summer nights he knows the engine tractors in the fields of hay, in September the rutting deer on the roads means ... Thus the "noise" of a wind, as pointed nuisance not a non- Waterfront is rather listened to by the local, according to its degree of acceptance, may collect the occasional hissing as a blessing rather than a hindrance. In his unconscious
this vast space that surrounds it is his home range with its balance and its defects. He lives. The landscape here
leaves his rigid definition. He re-entered in a broader concept than just aesthetics. The landscape is not a chromo iced a bit nostalgic, it's a living interface between environment and economy, between areas and urbanization between countries and people.
integral parts of their landscape, they must be dynamic parts of the change process. Otherwise it is the exclusion and frustration.
This is where I want to land. In our globalized world, where access to energy is a strategic issue, with real threats to our autonomy, each village community now has the legal duty to think his well being and integrity.
Each municipality must be able to claim the right to produce its energy independence. By constructing new towers on mounds near the village.
This parallel approach to politics industrial wind power is a positive approach to innovation that must be understood, claimed by the Commons. To reconcile the pros and cons. " Local investors and local government worth more than a financial investor listed on Wall Street: Civil society is well worth the company money! What
there be no mistake: the substance of the debate "wind" is a problem of ownership. The fact that the wind is free can stimulate the desire to appropriate it. The proposed wind farms interfere mainly because they are not shared. Because the waterfront, which dares to speak, feels very precise as its landscape ... it is stolen on behalf of the climate. Or, more cruelly, in the name of money! All
reversed when the occupant is busy. When the native is recognized essential part of the program. S'habite landscape, it becomes accessible and its amendment becomes acceptable. Because the agent of change is you, me, him who live here.
Nothing changes. The economy is still shaping the landscape! Wind energy is no exception to the rule!
Human history shows that inhabited the landscape is the result of human activity, it is the direct mirror of the economy at the time, and its dominant vectors: organization, management of land , housing, transport and energy.
Nowadays the social dimension, the economic impact of a permit in an area of landscape 'sensitive' deviates not ancient history: when the interest, need, urgent moves into the soul of man, nothing diverts and its interaction on the environment that surrounds it is ubiquitous.
The tragedy is that the citizen does not understand today that it has something to say, a role to play: to be positive momentum with the phenomenon of green electricity and the environment. That any other attitude would be brought before a court of saving the human race.
In conclusion, if the landscape of today no longer that of yesterday, which in the present circumstances, can claim to decide what will become tomorrow? And further, who could imagine stopping the ongoing change, inevitable, reducing the debate to a controversial wind spoiled children, ignorant and narrow-minded .... Who dares to bet that tomorrow it will be fine ... if we do not!
Bernard Delville
Administrator vzw Wind Houyet
www.vente-houyet.be
