It was to be a consensual reform but which could ultimately prove to be much more dangerous than expected for the government. After a summer marked by the consequences of global warming and with the approach of a winter where the risks of energy shortages are real, the government intends, through its bill presented Monday, September 26 in the Council of Ministers, to accelerate the deployment of renewable energies by simplifying administrative procedures and limiting the time taken to examine legal remedies.
From Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), Thursday, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, thus displayed his ambition to go “at least twice as fast” in the commissioning of solar and wind power in France. “We must accelerate the notching of projects so that we cannot permanently go back on the programs launched”defends the MoDem deputy of Yvelines Bruno Millienne.
But the bill, whose examination should begin in the Senate on October 30, arouses many reservations against it, between a right which would have preferred to debate the revival of the nuclear sector and a left which fears that the text will cause a deterioration of biodiversity. While the oppositions in the National Assembly demonstrated, in July, that they could forge alliances of convenience to put the presidential coalition in the minority, the debates are likely to be lively in the Hemicycle.
“It’s new in the method”
For the leader of the Renaissance deputies, Aurore Bergé, “It’s a complicated text for everyone: for [eux]to find allies and for the opposition to make up their minds on this subject ». “It won’t be easy, but I don’t think we’re in the same situation as the budget” which could be adopted by 49.3, hopes, for his part, the chairman of the sustainable development committee in the Assembly, Jean-Marc Zulesi (Renaissance).
To give pledges to the opposition, the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, multiplies consultations with parliamentarians and does not close the door to possible modifications to the text during its passage through the Assembly and the Senate. “It’s new in the methodrecognizes the environmental senator Ronan Dantec. We get the impression that the government is trying to find the broadest possible consensus in society and a balance with parliamentarians. »
“It must not be the development of renewables at all costs”he warns, however, hoping in particular for improvements in the role of local authorities and citizens. “We need to have real consultations, if we want to increase the acceptance of the population”, abounds the co-president of the environmental group in the National Assembly, Cyrielle Chatelain. If the chosen one regrets the “very limited vision of the text” for the moment, she prefers to wait for further negotiations with the government before deciding on the group’s position. But, for ecologists, the dilemma is great: should we vote for the text, despite the reservations of NGOs and environmental associations, or should we oppose and send a contradictory message on a text whose objective is to accelerate the implementation of solar and wind energy?
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