Opponents demonstrate on the site of the future Landivisiau gas power plant on February 20, 2019. - Fred TANNEAU / AFP

  • On Wednesday, Marine Le Pen made the link between the closure of Fessenheim and the opening of gas power plants, which emit more greenhouse gases than nuclear power.
  • The president of the RN seems to be referring to the gas plant project in Landivisiau, in Finistère.
  • The links between this plant and the closure of Fessenheim are weak; the project was launched in the early 2010s to develop the power supply in Brittany.

What energy compensation for the closure of the Fessenheim plant? On Wednesday, Marine Le Pen castigated the government's actions. "The closure of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant is an ecological aberration," wrote the president of the National Rally. The government is painting green but is attacking the energy that produces the least CO2 by far ... to open gas plants. "

The closure of the #Fessenheim nuclear power plant is an ecological aberration. Government paints green but attacks energy that produces the least CO2 by far ... to open gas power plants 😡 MLP

- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) February 19, 2020

If nuclear energy actually produces less CO2 than gas plants according to the IPCC, which gas plants does the member for Pas-de-Calais allude to? Contacted, his team did not respond to our requests.

The elected official seems to allude to a press release published by RTE on Tuesday. According to the manager of the electricity transmission network, the closure of the Alsatian power station "does not impact security of supply in France, despite the delay in the commissioning of the Flamanville EPR". RTE specifies that the closure “is compensated for [nationally] by the commissioning of the CCG (combined cycle gas) power station at Landivisiau, the development of renewable energies and the commissioning of two interconnections with the Grande -Brittany and Italy. "

"We make sure that production equals consumption"

Does this mean that the Landivisiau gas power plant in Finistère will be the main source of compensation for the shutdown of the two Alsatian reactors? No, explains RTE. “We look at the balance between production and consumption, we make sure that production is equal to consumption. With Fessenheim, we have a production of 1800 megawatts. The interconnections with Great Britain and Italy have almost equivalent capacities. The development of renewable energies (offshore wind farm project) and the power plant project in Brittany will also participate, but to a lesser extent, in the conservation of this energy balance.

The Landivisiau power station is not yet in service. Its opening, initially planned for 2017, is now announced "in winter 2021-2022", explains a representative of Total Direct Energie, the site operator, to 20 Minutes . "The walls are starting to be put up," adds the representative. The turbines must arrive in the fall.

In 1981, a nuclear power plant project abandoned in Brittany

The plant is an old project: its beginnings date back to 2010. "Its construction is not necessarily linked to Fessenheim, but, when it is in service, it may be called upon in the event of a peak in consumption," says Total Direct Energie. This is the argument of the defenders of gas power plants: they can be activated much faster than nuclear power plants.

The power plant project was developed, according to its supporters, to ensure the energy supply of Brittany, an argument disputed by the opponents of the project. The region does not have a nuclear power plant. A nuclear power plant project in Plogoff, in Finistère, was abandoned in 1981, given the scale of popular mobilization.

A legal battle

In Laudivisiau, several associations are fighting to prevent the power plant from being built, as well as the gas pipeline of a hundred kilometers which must supply it. Opponents denounce the ecological impact of the project as well as the cost of it for taxpayers.

The Force 5 association has filed several appeals before the courts. The Constitutional Council must rule must rule on one of them "in the coming days", confirms Jean-Yves QuĂŠmeneur, president of Force 5, at 20 Minutes .

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