• The Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport project was officially abandoned on January 17, 2018.

  • The CéDpa (elected representatives) and the Acipa (citizens) were the two main associations opposed to the project.

Three and a half years after the official abandonment of the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport project, it was "time to turn the page", recognizes the CéDpa, a collective of elected officials doubting the relevance of the airport. The association created in 2011 announces its dissolution, following the finally possible balance of its accounts. "We were waiting for the payment of the indemnities that the State owed us", after two decisions of the Council of State pronounced in June and August 2019, unfavorable to the prefecture of Loire-Atlantique, explains Françoise Verchère, figure of the anti-airport fight and spokesperson for the CéDpa.

“It was not large sums [4,000 euros in total] but it was necessary to insist to obtain the payment.

Symbolically, it was capital for us insofar as the promoters of the project have not stopped saying that we had lost all our cases.

This is false, the Council of State finally demonstrated that the project was not legally founded.

The remainder of the CéDpa's cash will be donated to four local associations campaigning in favor of the environment.

What do elected officials remember from their ten years of struggle?

"A necessarily very positive assessment," considers Françoise Verchère.

Huge groundwork.

Nice meeting.

We also took hits.

We have been despised by the institutions.

I expected more respect from elected officials.

"

The Nantes-Atlantique dossier "much too slow"

Another association emblematic of the anti-airport fight, Acipa is no longer active but has not yet really dissolved due to a transfer of ownership in the process of being settled. Its former members are also preparing an exhibition retracing the anti-airport fight.

As for the Citizen Workshop, which worked alongside the two associations to formulate alternative proposals to the Notre-Dame-des-Landes project, it is still working on monitoring the file of the current Nantes-Atlantique airport.

The announced redevelopment of the platform, as well as noise protection measures for residents, are progressing slowly.

“It's way too slow.

The State, through the DGAC, is dragging its feet ”, plague Jean-Marie Ravier, spokesperson for the Citizen Workshop, who also denounces a“ lack of transparency ”concerning the criteria for choosing the next concessionaire, the latter to be appointed at the end of 2021.

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