2023-12-19 12:31:00
Several Walloon Brabant MR mayors summoned the press on Tuesday to denounce the attitude of the Walloon Region in the context of the request for renewal of the environmental permit for Zaventem airport, currently organized in the Flemish Region.
In their sights: the Walloon Minister of the Environment, Céline Tellier (Ecolo), whose services relayed to the Walloon municipalities concerned the organization of this survey by asking them to also implement it on their territory.
This investigation began on December 10 and the Region notified the municipalities by a letter arriving on December 12 in Lasne, and on December 13 in Waterloo, although the Walloon environmental code indicates that the notice of investigation must be posted at the latest 5 days before the start of a public inquiry. The same letter asks the municipal colleges to send their opinion “at the earliest following the end of the investigation, knowing that the Walloon government must send its opinion no later than January 26”.
For MR mayors, this will not give municipalities time to read, analyze and synthesize the reactions of citizens, even though the subject of aircraft overflight is very sensitive and these reactions will be numerous.
In reality, the file which must be submitted to the citizen has not yet been translated into French. “An unofficial French version of the most important documents will be sent to you as soon as possible. However, given the large number of documents to be translated and the short time between the documents being made available and the start of the public inquiry, this translation was carried out by an automatic translation tool and did not have to be proofread”, indicates the Region to the municipalities, specifying that it cannot be held responsible for errors or approximations in translation.
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