- The Mauselaine ski area confirms snow transport, but it would not be done for the needs of the festival.
- Nevertheless, these transports do exist, as confirmed by 20 minutes by the management of the ski resort.
Trucks to transport snow from the Vosges mountains for the needs of a film festival? This is what the environmental association SOS Massif des Vosges claims in a press release published on January 30 on its site.
Gérardmer's international fantasy film festival, which took place from January 28 to February 2, is challenged by the association, which called on festival-goers to speak out against the mobilization of “dozens of heavy tonnage trucks [… ] to fetch tons of snow several kilometers away from the Vosges ridges and bring them back to the ski slopes of the Mauselaine resort ”.
The ski area can be explained
The association said it had been alerted by residents who saw the trucks travel about thirty kilometers. Problem, if the Mauselaine ski area confirms snow transport, it would not be made for the fantasy film festival, as SOS Massif des Vosges claims. Solicited by 20 Minutes , the festival press service categorically refutes any link with this operation.
Still, trucks filled with snow did go back and forth. "I don't understand this media outburst," says Benoît Perrin, deputy director of the ski resort, who has been receiving calls from the press for several days. These snow truck repatriations are not unusual. ”
According to him, they are essential to "snowmaking a break of 200 meters on a 5 km track". Are these routes not an ecological aberration, as SOS Massif des Vosges assures us? "If the valley wants to survive, we must ensure snow cover," says Benoît Perrin. It is thanks to tourism that we keep an activity. "
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