According to the ecological mayor Eric Piolle, the plan developed by the prefecture of Isère is not ambitious enough to protect the population.
by Richard Schittly (Lyon, correspondent )
The city of Grenoble filed, on February 16, an appeal to the administrative court against the State to request the cancellation and reformulation of the atmosphere protection plan (PPA) of the Isère prefecture , an approach that she made public Thursday, February 23. The municipality, directed by the ecological mayor Eric Piolle (Europe Ecologie-les Verts, EELV), believes that this regulatory plan, provided by the environment code, is not enough to protect the health of the population.
The legal appeal is in particular “insufficient objectives”, “poorly estimated” pollution thresholds, a deficiency of the ozone action plan, as much “irregularities” which would contravene the article of the code of code The environment governing the PPA, resulting from the European Air Quality Directive of 2008. After two years of administrative development and a public inquiry, the Isère plan was presented in December 2022 by the prefecture.
Established for the period 2022-2027, it concerns 850,000 inhabitants of 297 municipalities around the capital Alpine. It provides thirty-two actions to reduce air pollution, acting in several areas of activity, including industry, agriculture, transport and town planning. The plan proposes for example to follow twenty-three industrial establishments, to encourage to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases or fine particles. It is also a question of promoting good practices on public works sites.
While the improper use of wood heating, especially with open households, represents 67 % of the emission of fine particles, the PPA wants to allow the change of more than 7,000 wood heating devices in five years, By incentive measures, without however deciding for prohibitions, such as those in place in the very polluted valley of the Arve, in Haute-Savoie.
“guilty inaction”
The Grenoble Municipal Council had voted a negative opinion, believing that the means were not sufficient to achieve objectives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions or fine particles, in accordance with the thresholds yet defined by the agreements Paris international in 2015, or set by the World Health Organization (WHO).
In his purely advisory opinion, the environmental majority proposed the modification of the mobility payment of employers, to lower VAT on transport for train and bicycle, or to impose the obligation to make conforming the devices of Wood heating at each real estate transaction. By emphasizing that the decrease in air pollution could generate positive social effects on disadvantaged, often the most exposed populations, and beneficial economic repercussions.
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