Notre-Dame-des-Landes

Notre-Dame-des-Landes
Coat of arms
Notre-Dame-des-Landes
Location within Pays de la Loire region Notre-Dame-des-Landes
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Loire-Atlantique
Arrondissement	Châteaubriant
Canton	Blain
Intercommunality	Erdre et Gesvres
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Paul Naud
Area1	37.4 km2 (14.4 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	1,839
• Density	49/km2 (130/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	44111 / 44130
Elevation	29–82 m (95–269 ft)
Website	www.notredamedeslandes.fr
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Notre-Dame-des-Landes is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

The commune is the planned site of the new Aéroport du Grand Ouest, intended to replace Nantes Atlantique Airport. The €580 million project was approved in February 2008, with construction expected to start in 2012 and an opening date in 2015. But the inhabitants of the area and many people around the country are fighting against the project for ecological and human reasons (for instance, Notre-Dame-Des-Landes is located in an environnmentally important area for its wildlife and underground water, and the airport is said to be "useless" by experts because "Nantes Atlantique" works very well)

See also

• Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department