The residents' association believes that the transfer of the airport, whose traffic continues to increase, is the "only solution" to the problems of pollution and noise annoyance.
An association of residents of Nantes airport, whose traffic continues to grow, reiterated Thursday that the "only solution" to pollution and noise annoyance was the transfer, an option excluded by the authorities after the abandonment of Notre-Dame-des-Landes.
"The transfer is the only viable solution in the long term, otherwise it will be the war in all the communes here We are the turkeys of the farce", was alarmed Éric Aitkaci, president of the antenna in Saint- Aignan-Grandlieu du Coceta, a "collective of citizens exposed to air traffic" of Nantes Atlantique. Recently formed in association, the Coceta claims 700 members and almost as many sympathizers who do not disarm following the abandonment by the State of the project of Notre-Dame-des-Landes in January 2018. "There are young households that They have taken thirty years of credit to buy a house at the end of the track, and now their property has lost between 30 and 40% of its value, added Eric Aitkaci.
"Some do not extend their laundry and sometimes it smells of kerosene". A compensation fund, of an unknown amount, should allow the relocation of public buildings, such as schools, overflown by airplanes. This envelope will also finance the plan of noise annoyance, validated Monday by the Airport nuisance control authority: it plans to help some 16,000 residents to soundproof their homes. "We can not say 'we change your windows and you shut up.' We can not live outside, some do not extend their clothes and sometimes it smells like kerosene", explained Juliette D., mother of two children, whose house is located 800 m laterally of the track.
The Coceta asked the prefecture to conduct two separate analyzes on "black deposits present on homes" and the presence of "ultra fine particles", convinced of the "health challenge" induced by the growing activity of the airport. Air traffic grew by around 13% in 2018, exceeding the threshold of 6 million passengers, according to Nantes Atlantique. Managed by Vinci, the airport is expected to change its concessionaire in 2021 and will undergo construction until 2025. The redevelopment scenarios - variable lengthening of the runway or configuration changes - will be subject to public consultation in June. But "there is no question of the transfer," had swept in March Claude d'Harcourt, prefect of Loire-Atlantique.