The summer will not have appeased the rebellion of Breton fishermen, firmly opposed to the project to build a wind farm in the bay of Saint-Brieuc. The Côtes-d’Armor fisheries committee has thus filed a complaint against the project started in May for pollution and damage to the environment, its lawyers announced on Friday. The criminal complaint, “the first to relate to the entire project” according to a press release from Masters William Bourdon and Vincent Brengarth, was filed Thursday against X before the Brest public prosecutor against the park construction project.
The committee lodged complaints on the charges of “discharge of polluting substances, harm to the conservation of non-domestic animal species and natural habitats and discharge into the sea of substances or organisms harmful to the conservation of marine species”.
Minimized consequences on marine flora and fauna
In their arguments, the lawyers denounce the lack of prior consultation with environmental protection associations, the incomplete impact studies as well as a lack of monitoring of possible nuisances since the start of the work, especially on birds. sailors, accusing the builder Ailes Marines of “destroying, altering and degrading biodiversity”. “The bay of Saint-Brieuc must be preserved (…) because the southern part of the bay is a national nature reserve classified since 1998, and because it is adjacent to the Natura 2000 park of Cap d’Erquy-Cap Fréhel”, plead- they.
The Fisheries Committee “highlights a logic of minimizing the consequences on marine flora and fauna likely to weaken their preservation but also the related activities”, add the lawyers, deploring “that economic considerations have prevailed over issues relating to respect for the environment ”.
An investigation opened after two oil leaks on the construction site
In a letter addressed to the maritime prefect of the Atlantic, they also demand the immobilization of theAeolus, a drilling ship responsible for two hydraulic fluid pollutions on June 14 and July 28 and which, according to them, was authorized on August 18 to resume drilling the piles.
Following the first leak, the vessel returned to its home port in the Netherlands for work. An investigation was opened by the Brest prosecutor’s office.