It is now voted.

During a meeting on Tuesday, the fifty or so elected representatives of the Pays-de-Retz territorial and rural balance center accepted (with 37 votes for and 16 votes against) the modification of the territorial coherence scheme (Scot), reports France Blue Loire Ocean.

A piece of information that looks very technical but opens a new stage in a project that has been controversial for several years: the authorization to extend the sand quarries of Saint-Colomban.

As a reminder, the manufacturers GSM and Lafarge, which already extract 700,000 tonnes of alluvial sand per year over more than 100 hectares, plan to extend their quarries by 70 hectares, in areas which were (until then classified as agricultural land. arouse the anger of part of the population and farmers, who were moreover about 200 to demonstrate Tuesday in front of the community of communes to try to dissuade the elected officials from granting this exemption.

The population had already said "yes"

In an attempt to calm things down, the town hall, favorable to the project in particular for economic reasons, organized a citizen consultation last January.

A third of the population of this commune of 3,500 inhabitants went to the polls and the "yes" vote won with 54.37% of the vote.



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