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This is a vote without enthusiasm and without passion indulged, Friday, March 6 in Albi, general counsel of the Tarn. At almost unanimously, 43 of 46 – two PCF advisors Foissac Roland and Serge Entraygues and an environmentalist, Jacques Pagès voted against – they agreed to many of them reluctantly abandoning the dam project initial in the forest of Sivens. Right as socialists and radicals supported the proposal of the President of the General Council, Thierry Carcenac, “reaffirm the need for a retaining resized in Tescou Valley, to say that this deduction will be the project area”
Read also our interview. Sivens: to replace the dam, the chairman of the Tarn wants a smaller retention
Everyone has justified its rallying to the position of Mr. Carcenac, two weeks departmental elections, where half the councilors are not. By adopting the scenario of a lesser deduction, on the basis of the report of the experts who proposed 750,000 m 3 instead of 1.5 million m 3 initial in upstream of the original site, councilors wanted to find an exit to the crisis and the maximum tension perceptible in the area.
The councilors were especially strongly affirmed statements the requirement that ‘s State shall, without delay eviction of occupants without right or title “. At the time of the vote, about 11 hours, the talks had started on the ZAD Sivens, near Gaillac, between cops and occupants. Some of them seem to have accepted a start, framed, without contact with the hundreds of farmers and other supporters of the pro-dam that encircle the ZAD. The evacuation could take place in the aftermath, this Friday. Noon, the gendarmes entered the southern area of ZAD
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Albi, in the hall of the General Council, Paul Salvador (UMP, Castelnau-de-Montmiral), translated a widespread feeling, especially in the public gallery where many farmers came to hear the debate, ensuring that the script was not written, “I vote for the text of the President, but not for Proposition 1 expert [a retaining smaller, 750,000 m³, located some 300 meters upstream the original site] . If we re-open the discussion, I do not what you want already positioned the dike, and that figure holding the Volume “, has he said.
One might hope that the new proposal does not, it is true, the site of the future dam (300, 200 or 50 meters from the original site) or the exact volume of the reservoir, allowing for in almost back to the original scenario. To the chagrin of the few opponents who, like Roland Foissac (PCF), would have preferred “enact without red herring that this dam project had no reason to be” . Hostile too, from the beginning to the dam, Jacques Pagès, ecologist, said that by voting the new version of water retention on the Tescou, “we continued to persevere in error.” Saying support “peasant agriculture that respects the land” , he rejected Mr Carcenac text.
The solution of a smaller dam should save 7 hectares of wetlands, slightly more than half of the area specified initially. The alternative proposed by the experts considered more expensive and take longer to implement, consisted of a set of three selected or hill side, one in Sivens, and two others nearby.
Anger against “the Parisian world”
If the debate on Friday morning did not change the balance of power, it was an opportunity to express many advisers anger or resentment towards “Paris” of the government or, more specifically, the minister of ecology that Ségolène Royal, in the words of the president, has strongly “forced” choosing the General Council
“I get angry against some ministers -. it is the singular need to hear – that have sought a way to seduce more Press “, has proclaimed Jacques Valax (PS), causing heard laughter. Saying he had received 3,680 emails from opponents of the dam, including “only three came from Tarn” , the chosen stigmatized “the Parisian world – which begins north of the Garonne – which has captured this file, did not understand the need of the dam and the need for water land “.
Favorable to the original draft of President Carcenac itself, as almost unanimously by those present, Jacques Valax has nonetheless agreed with the proposal submitted to vote. The stage of the General Council is now passed, the evacuation order from ZAD was given by the Interior Ministry, Bernard Cazeneuve. Gendarmerie forces, more than 300 men supported by delicate evacuation specialists and désincarcérations from Paris (the national aid cell mobility), received the backing of four CRS companies, some 250 men.
On-site Sivens, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior, Pierre-Henry Brandet, and the prefect, Thierry Gentleman, are following events very closely. The memory of the death of Rémy Fraisse, young environmentalist killed on 26 October 2014 by a grenade fired by a policeman, is in everyone’s head.
Thursday, while the situation there remained tense between supporters and opponents of the dam, the interior minister and the president of the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions ( FNSEA), Xavier Beulin had called for calm on the Sivens zone.
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