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ISSUE 29
MAY 2012
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News and What’s on information for Normandy and the surrounding area Photos: OT Honfleur
MARITIME FESTIVAL HONOURS SAILORS What’s On: Pages 8-10
10,000 new jobs in €7bn energy project by SAMANTHA DAVID
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provide up to 10,000 new jobs across the region and, as part of a wider international development project NEW off-shore windfarms to be built with the UK and Germany, will make in Normandy will bring huge investnorthern Europe the world’s largest ment and thousands of new jobs in wind energy production area. construction and maintenance as part Initial employment will be provided of a €7 billion plan. to build the factories in SaintThe plan brings a whole new indusNazaire, Brest, Cherbourg and Le try to Normandy and BasseHavre which will conNormandie regional presistruct the 600 wind turdent Laurent Beauvais said bines needed for the first it marked “a new page in tranche of the project. industrial history” and Maintenance plants are “new hope for the future”. to be built in La Turballe, Two sites, at Fécamp Saint-Brieuc, Ouistreham (near Le Havre) and at and Fécamp. Courseulles-sur-Mer As further contracts are (north of Caen) have been awarded, it is expected the chosen for the first windarea will become a major farms, along with two furLaurent Beauvais manufacturing hub for ther sites, at St-Brieuc in greeted a “new wind turbines as the plans Brittany and St-Nazaire page in industrial will eventually see around (Pays de la Loire). history” 1,200 wind turbines built The government award20km off the French coast. ed the Normandy and The first four wind farms are Pays de la Loire contracts to a conexpected to produce 2,000 megawatts sortium led by energy giant EDF and of electricity and, as further farms are engineering company Alstom while constructed, this is expected to rise to the Brittany contract was awarded to 6,000mW by 2020. Mr Beauvais a consortium led by Spanish energy group Iberdrola and engineering Î Turn to page 2 company Areva. More deals are on the horizon, with prospective sites selected in NorM 05198 - 29 - F: 0,95 E mandy, at Le Tréport (near Dieppe) and Noirmoutier, Pays de la Loire. Industry Minister Eric Besson said the €7bn project was expected to