Pressed by environmentalists to implement the promised environmental measures before the re -election of Emmanuel Macron, the government begins the consultations on ecological transition and planning.
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Emmanuel Macron built part of his re -election, on April 24, on the promise to erect France in “great ecological nation”, which would be “the first to get out of gas, oil and coal”. “The policy that I will carry out in the next five years will be ecological or will not be,” projected the head of state during a speech in Marseille, a few days before the second round of the presidential election, with the goal displayed to attract the left electorate to him. A commitment that struggles to translate into acts, four months later.
Defense of the environment, deplore the environmentalists, was indeed the great absent from discussions on purchasing power, in July, in Parliament. Worse, in anticipation of a winter threatened by the possible stop of gas deliveries by Russia, the government authorized the reopening of the coal power plant in Saint-Avold (Moselle); Mr. Macron had however promised the closure, before May 2022, of the four French coal power plants, in the name of the preservation of the climate – only two were ultimately.
At the same time, the installation of a floating methanier terminal was approved in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime). Environmental defenders fear that the latter would be used to import shale gas from the United States. So many choices that nourish the throbbing trial in “climate inaction” whose power in place has been the object for five years.
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Rather than carrying out “a major action plan” in favor of energy sobriety, “the government prefers to deal with Amish and support shale gas”, denounced the national secretary of Europe Ecology- Les Verts (EELV), Julien Bayou.
“We already import shale gas,” replied the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, because “hydraulic fracturing is used today in most onshore deposits in the world, including in Russia moreover “. “The same would blame us for not having done everything to prevent a blackout next winter,” annoys a relative of Emmanuel Macron.
The executive is expected to be expected at the turn at the start of the school year. The scorching summer, symbolic of climate disturbances, with repeated droughts, has fueled the discussions of the French. “The government is locked in software that threatens the very conditions of existence”, is alarmed the EELV Yannick Jadot MEP in the Sunday newspaper .
Faced with criticisms, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne plans to deliver a speech at Medef’s summer universities on August 29, inviting business leaders to “take their share in the” energy, energetic, energetic, energetic, In the words of an executive advisor, and “to see the ecological transition as a source of progress”. Two days later, the subject will be at the heart of a government seminar. The Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, notably issued the idea of regulating theft of private jets.
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