Relief as battlefield wind turbines are scrapped

Australia has welcomed as “very touching” the scrapping of wind turbines on the French site of a First World War battlefield where thousands of soldiers died.

French energy company Engie Green had planned to erect two turbines on the former battlefield at Bullecourt, where 10,000 Australians were killed or wounded in 1917.

“The Engie group has listened to the concerns of the Australian people and acted with empathy by cancelling this project,” Dan Tehan, the veterans’ affairs minister, said.