2023-08-21 14:45:57
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 8 hours ago, Updated 41 minutes ago
The Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu. R. SATISH BABU / AFP
They will be supported by the State to significantly reduce the amount of water withdrawn for their operation, as part of the water plan unveiled in March by the executive.
The government unveiled on Monday a list of 12 of the 50 industrial sites which will be supported by the State to significantly reduce the quantity of water withdrawn for their operation, as part of the water plan unveiled in March, we learned from of the government. While France is in the middle of an episode of summer heat, three ministers, that of Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, and his colleagues from Industry and Biodiversity, Roland Lescure and Sarah El Haïry, are in visit this Monday in Balan in the Ain on the site of the PVC plastic manufacturer Kem One. This industrialist is one of the 50 who undertakes to do his bit to achieve a 10% reduction in the country’s water withdrawals by 2030, a target set by Emmanuel Macron on March 30 at Lake Serre-Ponçon (Hautes -Alps).
«Manufacturers innovate, reinvent and reduce their water consumption in order to participate in the collective effort and preserve the resource“, thus expressed the Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu on his account X, for whom “sobriety is the first lever in adapting our water management to climate change“. Before giving the list of12 first industrial sites committed to water sobriety» out of the 50 who «will be unveiled by the end of the year“. Among them, several players in the chemical industry, such as the TotalEnergies refining site in Donges (Loire-Atlantique), but also in the steel industry, with ArcelorMittal in Dunkirk (North) and Florange (Moselle) or even in the food industry, with the Isigny-Sainte-Mère dairy cooperative (Calvados).
If the industry does not representwhat» 8% of withdrawals and 4% of the country’s water consumption, «there are territories where a manufacturer can represent much larger volumes than the national average“, Underlines a government source. To establish the list of 50 committed factories which must be stopped by the end of the year, “we looked at which sites were heavy consumers of water, in territories with pressure on the resource and where, in a prior dialogue with the manufacturer, we sensed the potential for water savings“, specified this source.
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The State intends above allto accompany» industrialists, in particular through water agencies, to «facilitate the co-financing of studies, facilitate the co-financing of the implementation of the solutions found, and facilitate the administrative implementation of these solutions“. On the financial plan, “we do not create an ad hoc device“, but the upward revision of 475 million euros of the annual budget of the water agencies, announced on March 30, “participate in this rise in power“of the support of industrialists, said the source.
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