- A collective opposes a wine project in Belle-Ile-en-Mer in Morbihan.
- Led by businessman Christian Latouche, the project provides for the production of 70,000 bottles per year.
- Opponents fear that the project requires the declassification of plots in Natura 2000 zone and therefore demand its abandonment.
They don't want vines on their island. In Belle-Ile-de-Mer (Morbihan), a collective is opposed to a wine project that has been smoldering for several years and could, according to them, require the downgrading of plots to Natura 2000 zones. "Maintaining your project on sites on the wild coast that the State would have to decommission to allow your activity there, would be a source of divisions and tensions ”, they write in a letter addressed to the project leader, the businessman Christian Latouche, founder of Fiducial . "This is why, as a measure of appeasement, we ask you to give up these projects before the State has to decide", claim these opponents, gathered within the association La Bruyère Vagabonde.
The Morbihan prefecture confirmed that a file for this wine project was being investigated and that a public inquiry was planned. "The report drawn up by the investigating commissioner, as well as the opinion of the environmental authority, will be additional elements to the analysis of my services to take the decision relating" to this request for authorization, wrote the prefect to the opponents. in a letter dated July 20.
A "marketing" project that "will destroy biodiversity"
"The 7 hectares of vines envisaged for the moment are all located on non-agricultural land in the Natura 2000 zone and should therefore be downgraded", says Gilles Smadja, spokesperson for the young association. Christian Latouche's project is “a financial project”. "It targets sites by the sea for marketing reasons", considers Gilles Smadja. The vine "will destroy biodiversity (…) in an extremely hostile climatic context with storms and spray" which will require protecting the plants during the winter, he adds.
“It's a project that has nothing Bellilois about. We are completely in favor of the development of island agriculture, agriculture respectful of nature and based on local needs ”, such as market gardening, breeding or milk production, finally adds Gilles Smadja. "For all these reasons, it is unlikely that the State downgrades sites on the wild coast, which would go against the attractiveness of Belle-Ile and all that tourists come to seek there" , consider the association.
A production of 70,000 bottles per year envisaged
The objective of the SCEA des vignes de Kerdonis, the name of the project, is to produce “70,000 bottles per year” and “the farmers on the island point out that the vines consume a lot of water”, also notes Gilles Smadja .
The SCEA des vignes de Kerdonis is domiciled in the Gulf of Morbihan on the island of Boédic which belongs to the municipality of Séné. The island of Boédic was acquired by Christian Latouche after the suicide in 2013 of its former owner, lawyer Olivier Metzner.
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