Tribune. In the Poitou-Charentes, agro-industrial cooperatives are trying to make a low hand on the water in order to extend a destructive mode of production of the living and today it is urgent to overcome.
Eighty-three “megabassines” including more than a dozen in the Marais Poitevin – second largest wetland in France – may be erected in the next three years.
These huge plasticized craters of five to fifteen hectares are the last artifice of agro-industry to reconcile increased scarcity of the water resource and maintenance of intensive irrigation.
In a few months, the movement patiently woven between Poitevin Marais inhabitants and somewhere, peasants and naturalists to give a stop at the building sites of megabassines, has taken a national boom. Saturday, November 6, to the call of basin no thanks, from the LPO, the peasant Confederation and the uprisings of the earth, more than three thousand people and twenty tractors found themselves in Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon (two- Sèvres), not far from a megabassine in construction prohibited from access to protesters.
After crossing fields, rivers and clouds of tear gas, the protesters collectively invested the site of another megabassine, illegal and already convicted five times by justice.
Collective action “Disarmament “
An element of the pumping plant that fed this basin has been dismantled by farmers. Once the crowd is closed on the slope of the basin, an inconvenience was made to put it out of order to harm. This collective action of “disarmament” was a call to reconsider the ways to preserve and share the water resource. It testifies to the assumed necessity, in view of the climate urgency, to use the tools of civil disobedience when “eco-friendly” projects pass in force.
If it had to get there, it was also to answer, in full COP 26, a government which, behind its ecologically virtuous claims, finance at 70% these basins and including the Julian Minister of Agriculture Denormandie claims that they are filled with the “diluvian rains” of winter. The piece of pipe brought back to the doors of his ministry after being taken from the drilling of the basin, had to put it in the face of his lie or incompetence, materializing the fact that the basins are also filled and especially in pumping in the groundwater.
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