2023-09-23 17:33:00
“We don’t want this LGV!”: several hundred activists this weekend undertook a “sarabande”, a convoy following the route of the high-speed line project from Bordeaux to Dax and Toulouse, a veritable snake of political sea of the region.
This “festive and combative” convoy, which set off on Friday afternoon from the University of Talence, near Bordeaux, made a stop on Saturday morning in Balizac, in the south of Gironde, where it was joined by elected officials, mayors, deputies and senators from the villages crossed by the major South-West railway project (GPSO).
The activists denounce an “ecocide” project and plead in exchange for “the renovation and modernization of existing lines”.
“They would like to force us to accept this project contested by public inquiries and by the Council of State, and constantly challenged, with the climate law and the law on biodiversity… There are a lot of lies, a lot of inconsistencies”, pointed out for AFP Jacqueline Lartigue-Renouil, mayor of the village of Bernos-Beaulac and member of the collective of South-Gironde and Montesquieu solidarity elected officials.
On September 7, the Environmental Authority, an independent authority called upon to give an opinion on each infrastructure project subject to an environmental assessment, requested a new impact study. “The answers to many items in the environmental code are obsolete or incomplete,” she lamented.
Consulted by AFP, SNCF Réseau ensures that its “teams are fully mobilized to respond to the opinion of the Environmental Authority and provide additional information as quickly as possible”.
In January, a report from the Infrastructure Orientation Council had already recommended postponing the project, already delayed many times, beyond 2038.
“People are more and more upset. And now, what annoys them even more are the taxes. It is the municipalities most impacted by this project that will have to pay. It’s strong! And the Girondins won’t even be able to not take this LGV, unless you jump on a train that goes at 300 km/h under their windows. But they will have to pay for it. It’s as if they condemned us to death, that they made us pay for our own funerals “, concluded Jacqueline Lartigue-Renouil.
09/23/2023 17:30:58 – Balizac (France) (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
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