2023-09-02 18:44:02
France
“The Meuse is not a nuclear dustbin”
A protest march once morest the Cigéo project brought together several hundred anti-nuclear activists, including the Swiss, on Saturday in Bure.
PostedSeptember 2, 2023, 8:44 PM
The procession took place in a noisy and festive atmosphere.
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Several hundred people demonstrated on Saturday in Bure (Meuse) once morest the project, called Cigeo, to bury the most radioactive nuclear waste, at the end of the “Meetings of peasant struggles”.
“Between 700 and 800” demonstrators
The procession, opened by a banner “The Meuse is not a nuclear dustbin”, brought together anti-nuclear activists of different nationalities (French, German, Swiss, Brazilians, Colombians), local residents and families in a noisy and festive atmosphere for a walk to the neighboring town of Mandres en Barrois. Flags of La France insoumise, the Confédération paysanne, the Sortir dunuclear network and the Solidaires union were visible.
“Democratic denial”
The demonstration aimed to denounce the “forced passage” of the State to “impose the landfill center despite the opposition of the inhabitants of the Meuse”, in the words of Marie-Neige Houchard, departmental co-secretary for Europe -ecology-The Greens (EELV). “There is complete democratic denial around this project. And then we water elected officials with public money to buy consciences, ”she lamented, referring to the 30 million euros distributed each year by the two Public Interest Groups (GIP) in Meuse and Haute- Marne for local economic development.
“Cigeo gives the impression that we can use nuclear power, that the waste is manageable, whereas it has been there for tens of thousands of years,” said Pierre Ferté, a 58-year-old beekeeper from Marne. “Burying them is really ostriching, it’s not a solution.”
Important safety device
Project manager in peasant agriculture, Marie Michaud, 30, says she is concerned regarding “land grabbing by Andra (National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management, which carries the Cigeo project, editor’s note) and Safer” ( Société d’Aménagement Foncier et d’Etablissement Rural, editor’s note) for the benefit of Cigéo. “It’s very complicated for a young farmer to settle here, because Andra has control over the land,” says the young woman from Moselle. “But today, we need farmers to make this territory live”.
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