After Notre-Dame-des-Landes, can we carry out a major development project in Loire-Atlantique?
Lately, they are in any case numerous to come up against strong opposition.
After the abandonment of the transfer from the airport to Notre-Dame-des-Landes decided following 50 years of struggle, do major development projects still have a future in Loire-Atlantique, where the council department has also committed itself to a “zero artificialization” approach to soils?
Lately, many of them have in any case come up against strong opposition from the local population, which sometimes forces them, and even without ZAD, to review their copy.
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Amazon, Airseas: abandoned projects
The announcement of the community of communes of Grand-Lieu surprised everyone on October 25. Local elected officials finally decided to abandon the plan to set up a major Amazon logistics base, one of the largest in France, on the site of the former Montbert hospital, south of Nantes. Official reason: the accumulation of "technical and legal constraints" and the delay in the project. The rise of the opposition, united behind a collective of associations, elected officials and residents, also had to weigh in the balance. The environmental conditions and Amazon's economic model were, in particular, singled out. Still, the American e-commerce giant is still looking for a site in the west of France to build a large platform.
A little earlier, at the beginning of September, Airseas decided to throw in the towel.
The company aimed to set up its test platform for giant sails, intended to equip freighters, in the Machecoul marsh.
This was without counting local residents and associations, including the Bird Protection League, who were concerned about the environmental impacts of the activity on this Natura 2000 site. Despite a court decision giving them the green light this summer, the project leaders changed their plans, deploring a “counter-productive balance of power” on the part of the opponents.
The surf park, Le Carnet: projects at a standstill
In Saint-Père-en-Retz, the eddies have been concentrated around a private surf park project for several years now. But the leisure complex and its artificial wave, scheduled for late 2021-early 2022, have not yet swept over coveted farmland, 10 km from the ocean. Quite the contrary. After several episodes of protest, sometimes tense, the horizon seems clear for the opponents, some of whom have even claimed victory. The project, which wins the support of the municipality but not that of the departmental council, would however "not be buried", said this summer to
Ouest-France
one of its very discreet officials.
Between Frossay and Paimbœuf, the Carnet site was occupied for more than six months by a ZAD.
About fifty activists had chosen to settle on this former island of the Loire in order to prevent the creation of a logistics base and a park of eco-businesses wanted by the Grand Maritime Port.
The occupants were finally forcibly evicted at the end of March.
But the economic project, weakened by the crisis and the lack of candidates, has not started so far.
"We have no more plans," even announced the general manager of the port.
For how long ?
Sand pits and XXL methanizer: still in progress
In Saint-Colomban, two sand quarries already extract 700,000 tonnes of sand per year over more than 100 hectares. But by 2023, GSM and Lafarge, the operators, would like to almost double the size of quarries. Problem, this would be done on land classified as "perennial agricultural areas", and opposition on the spot is strong, with several demonstrations and blockages of the site in recent months. To settle the thorny question, a local referendum must be organized in January, at the initiative of the town hall.
Not far from there, in Corcoué-sur-Logne, it is another big file which puts water in the gas.
Will the super methaniser project, carried by an agricultural cooperative, see the light of day?
Nothing is less certain whereas, here again, the criticisms are sharp around this future site which aims to transform each year 500,000 tons of cow excrement into biomethane from the end of 2023. Last episode: the unfavorable opinion given last week by the Loire-Atlantique departmental council, which claims incompatibility with existing road infrastructure.
A new period of consultation with the inhabitants must begin.
The mini nuclear power plant: an already contested pre-project
The project is only at the embryonic stage but it is being discussed with a lot of energy.
Christelle Morancais, president of the Pays-de-la-Loire region, surprised everyone a few days ago by offering to host a mini-nuclear power plant in place of the EDF coal-fired power station in Cordemais, dedicated to the closure.
The left opposition, ecologists in the lead, has already expressed itself strongly against this idea which would allow in particular, according to its supporters, to offer an economic future to this site bordered by the Loire.
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