Farming Trafalgar?

Near this blustery headland where Admiral Nelson won his great naval victory over the French two centuries ago, a new battle of Trafalgar is brewing. . .

Two companies plan to build large clusters of windmills in the sea just off this stretch of Spain's southern shore, a gritty place of sand dunes, lagoons and sharp brown reefs. With about 400 offshore turbines, they want to capture the power of the winds that blow almost constantly here, at the cusp of two seas, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. . .

Fishermen respond that the phalanxes of giant towers near the coast will make their tough jobs even tougher. "This is where the tuna pass, and this is where we work," said Manuel Ponce Alva, leader of a fishermen's protest movement, waving a marine map covered with ominous red arrows.

Posted by David on January 11, 2005 7:24 AM