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Air monster set to wreck peace of wine valley

One of the quietest regions of rural France is fighting to save its bucolic lifestyle as the world's biggest engineering project threatens to end centuries of peace among its vineyards. With intensive work due to begin next weekend, green movements and isolated villages are intensifying their protests. The specially widened highway will attract a flood of unwanted daytime goods traffic, they say, destroy roadside trees, pollute the cleanest air in the country, disturb rare wildlife and wreck a string of organic farming projects.