Earlier in June, Belgium’s Minister of Justice and North Sea Vincent Van Quickenborne launched a legal battle against the French government’s plans for a wind farm at sea near Dunkirk. Now the region of Flanders is joining the fight. The 46 French windmills with a height of up to 300 meters in question would be located barely 10 kilometres from the Belgian seaside resort of De Panne. According to Belgian complaints, the park is being built in French territorial waters but is located in Belgian-controlled airspace, which Brussels fears would risk certain historic shipping routes between the ports of Ostend and the United Kingdom being blocked.