2024-09-24 17:09:00
The first bad news comes from Luc Rémont, on the phone, Monday September 16. The CEO of EDF announced it to a worker representative. Then the company made it official on Tuesday September 24, the day after the Union press release: management “plans to stop Ecocombust operation”, it should convert one of the last two power plants in the country that still runs on coal, that of Cordemais (Loire-Atlantique), to biomass (wood waste).
The project is specifically carried out by the employees themselves, and coordinated by the CGT. “What an abomination, what an insult, what an insult that EDF is doing to the whole Loire region that does not need this to already be in a big problem in terms of industrial activity”told the Union. The two Cordemais editions brought together 335 representatives from all walks of life.
The company says it has been planning the site’s future since 2015. “After analysis, he arguedthe socio-economic conditions to carry out this project are not compatible, EDF will not be able to completely replace coal with pellets. [granulés de bois]. »
“Lack of State Regulation”
After the initial negotiation with the multinational Suez, The electrician has started discussions with the recycling company Paprec, so that the latter can supply it. “black pellets”, reclaimed wood.
The situation is difficult to accept for the employees of EDF, of which the State is the sole financier. Especially since the President of the Nation, Emmanuel Macron, made, in September 2023, the promise of “completely (…) change » the last two electric power plants (0.6% of the country’s electricity production last year) are based on biomass. After looking ahead by five years, the Head of State set the end of the use of this fossil energy, which is the most polluting, in 2027.
Socialist (PS) Mayors of Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, Johanna Rolland and David Samzun, criticized the EDF administration for taking action “Beyond any local wisdom and breaking with sacred covenants (…) said by the President of the Republic himself. It is also a sign of“lack of State regulation with social, economic and environmental consequences”, as two representatives of Loire-Atlantique in the Senate, the socialist Karine Daniel and the ecologist Ronan Dantec.
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“The state (…) will let a project for the future and ecological change made by employees die? »asked another councilor, Communist Fabien Gay, who knows that Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who became Minister of Energy again on Saturday September 21, has already expressed himself in favor of Ecocombust.
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