General alert.
The LR president of the Hauts-de-France regional council Xavier Bertrand deplored on Thursday that the government had not released strategic stocks of fuel "at the national level" to deal with the supply difficulties of certain service stations.
The Hauts-de-France region is the most affected by these difficulties.
“With us there are 32% of the stations” which have supply problems, in particular “because a lot of foreigners come to fill up with us”, he said on FranceInfo.
The former candidate for the LR nomination for the presidential election had already challenged the government the day before on the subject.
An improvement by the beginning of next week?
The prefect of Hauts-de-France announced on Wednesday that strategic stocks had been released during the day.
But "it is at the national level that we should have anticipated" and "freed up strategic stocks", maintains Xavier Bertrand, hoping "that the government will tell us the truth about how everything will be delivered in the days to come. ".
According to him "we must not hesitate" in the face of the blocking of refineries, with "the requisition or the threat of requisition to release stocks".
On BFM TV, the Minister for Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher explained that “oil supplies from Belgium and from Rouen, by boat”, were being reinforced.
"Furthermore, we have actually freed up some strategic stocks to more quickly support oil tankers," she said, adding that the improvement in the situation "will take two, three days a priori."
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