Delivery canceled for Amazon.
The e-commerce giant has given up on its project for a large storage warehouse in Petit-Couronne in the Rouen agglomeration, the mayor of the small town, favorable to the project, said on Friday.
"The construction project" of this "logistics building with a surface area of 160,961 m2" "will ultimately not be carried out", wrote to the municipality the company Gazeley, which was to rent to Amazon, according to Joël Bigot mayor of Petit-Couronne .
Amazon's press department was not immediately available.
“Between 1,000 and 1,800 jobs lost”
The elected official regretted this decision which he announced Thursday evening in the municipal council.
“The loss of jobs is between 1,000 and 1,800 positions depending on the time of year.
Tax revenue for the municipality was estimated at around 600,000 euros,” he said.
However, he admitted that “the project bothered so many people” before pointing out that “the various appeals against the building permit or the environmental authorization slowed down the project”.
In October 2020, the metropolis of Rouen had voted against this project in the face of concerns from the SDIS (departmental fire and rescue service).
Firefighters feared in a report to be faced with an "operational impossibility" and estimated that a large fire could produce "a volume of smoke greater than that produced during the fire of September 26, 2019" on the Seveso site from Lubrizol to Rouen.
However, the metropolis had not taken legal action.
Depollution of the site in question
The prefect of Seine-Maritime had signed two decrees in March 2021 authorizing the project, considering that the operator had in the meantime "integrated the recommendations of the SDIS".
But in February 2022, the Norman media Le Poulpe, relayed by Mediapart, had affirmed that the depollution of the site, which was to be partly occupied by Amazon, raised "heavy questions about the reality of the work carried out".
The company Valgo was in charge of the depollution of this site where the Petroplus refinery closed in 2013. Le Poulpe said to be based on the testimony of 30 employees and subcontractors of Valgo who worked on this depollution.
But for Joël Bigot, these are "deformed articles", "which mix everything up".
"Admittedly, there was a problem with polluted land on the Valgo site, but I took care to receive the Dreal (Regional Directorate for the Environment) some time ago and everything was under control", a- he said this Friday.
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