The report of the commission of inquiry denounces the undermining of the nuclear asset (above, the nuclear power plant of Belleville-sur-Loire). Francois Bouchon/Le Figaro
The conclusions of the parliamentary commission of inquiry on energy sovereignty made public on Thursday denounce an “unconscious and inconsistent” policy.
We suspected it would be severe. It’s even more than that. As if, after six months of work and 150 hours of hearings that had gone viral by the deputies, their arms had fallen. “Often, we went from incomprehension to surprise, to consternation,” writes Renaissance MP Antoine Armand, in the preamble to the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the reasons for the loss of energy sovereignty, made public on Thursday. “The story that has been reconstituted before us is indeed the story of a slow drift, of a political wandering, often unconscious and inconsequential, which has distanced us both from the ecological transition and from our energy sovereignty”.
The report of the Commission meeting under the chairmanship of MP LR Raphaël Schellenberger, whose constitution was decided in the fall before an energy winter which promised to be more terrible than it finally was, reconstitutes in 372 dense pages “three decades” of mistakes. A
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