(en) Organisation Communiste Libertarie - Courant alternatif #232 - Bure: RENEWAL OF STRUGGLES antinuclear? (fr)

Since the camp "Valogne" and anti-THT struggles, a new generation of antinuclear appeared 
on the ground, far away supporters of the establishment of a nuclear lobby against relying 
on the Greens and environmentalists institutions with propaganda in the direction of 
public opinion blaming individuals (a summary of the network "phase out nuclear power"). 
This nascent movement has identified a very clear objective: Deny by all means the burial 
of nuclear high-level waste (HLW) and ILW-LL (average long-lived) in Bure, a small village 
on the edge of the Meuse and Haute Marne in a region where desertification is well 
underway for decades. ---- Some small reminders ---- Recall that on the ground, in 1994, 
the general counsel of the Meuse and Haute-Marne put the slippery slope of burying nuclear 
waste in their basement.

As usual, local officials were bought by nucleocrats gradually will try to gain a foothold 
in the population playing the non-information and disinformation, practicing blackmail 
economic development, hiding the major challenge of final burial of the worst nuclear 
waste to allow the continuation of a nuclear power program. On 19 August 1999, Voynet 
Green Minister of Plural Left in Power signed a decree authorizing the Bure laboratory 
against, it seems, a moratorium on Flamanville. We saw that it gave ...

The construction of this laboratory began in 2000 as part of the Battle Act 1991 for 
research on the management of radioactive high-level waste. The National Agency for 
Radioactive Waste Management (Andra) conducted experiments in the lab and support the 
feasibility of a geological repository at a depth between 300 and 500 meters underground. 
The strategy of the opponent is then es-classical: Informing people, to massively sign a 
petition calling for a referendum and try to convince elected officials. In 2005, 45,000 
voters Haute-Marne and Meuse are calling for a referendum. The elected two departments sit 
on .... Legal remedies are many times ... They filed are rejected! There have been a 
"national public debate" in 2005 on the management of nuclear waste put forward preference 
for the study of maintenance of these surface ... But the law that followed in 2006 
included only burial in Bure.

The decision to boycott a new public debate

In 2013, it's been 20 years that the people of these two departments are colonized by 
Andra. The process is long but instead of giving up, the opposition-are becoming 
radicalized. A new public debate is announced May 15 to July 31 and September 1 to October 
15, 2013. It is organized by the National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP) which 
entrusts the animation ... Andra Andra is now carrying the Cig?o project: industrial 
center of radioactive waste in deep geological formations. It is fifteen public meetings 
whose premiere is scheduled for May 23 at Bure. The following must take place in nearby 
cities Bure then be held in places already colonized by nucleocrats. Added to this is the 
opening of a website "participatory debate." Obviously, the CNDP was not to decide "on the 
merits of the projects submitted to them" even if Andra announced that "nothing has been 
decided" since "the final decision will be made in 2018" by Parliament ! There are only 
fools, dishonest taking for granted what speech Andra. The opposing es therefore decided 
to actively boycott the chagrin of the Greens and other opponents of wanting to stay 
within the law (Republican ...).

An active and effective boycott

Thursday, May 23, at Bure, in the inauguration of the public debate. Special atmosphere in 
this small village of 90 residents who came to see no less than 130 cops (including 10 
mobile police vans besides local gendarmes and police in civilian domestic intelligence 
...). The hall 1 000 000 radioactive too small, in fact more than 200 between es are also 
present. Inside the President of the CNDP launched the meeting, once the voices, and 
surprise, the local PCF starts hostilities. Fifteen minutes later, the committee 
suspended. Officials are forced to leave under the protection of police. President CNDP 
fled through a small dirt road!

In a statement, the CNDP announced that differs the next two appointments Saint-Dizier and 
Joinville. She wants to organize a roundtable with all actors involved in the two 
departments Cig?o project. Yet invited to the table, the opponent es this project 
continues to boycott and organized by opening a website (cigeout.com), launching an online 
petition and mobilizing against the next public meeting in Bar-le-Duc scheduled for June 
13. Not ready the CNDP will finally see this debate June 17

Issues

The CNDP threatening opponent es for the remaining 13 meetings must be held. "This debate 
is a truce, a sacred moment in a democracy", "we will take the necessary means for people 
who intend to disrupt can not do it ...". To achieve this, apart from the force, the 
Commission proposes that the order of speaking meetings gives priority to the expression 
of the public and that the platform involved conflicting experts and not only the project 
leader, Andra. Obviously, the Commission recalls that "the final policy decision is not 
granted. Will there be a Cig?o or not? The question remains open. " If you look closer, 
the issue of the public debate goes beyond Cig?o. The CNDP admit: "if it was not 
necessary, it would go very serious institutional obstacles knowing that the debates ahead 
thereafter focus on GMOs or shale gas." Let it be!

"Get out! " On 17 June, 400 people were present in the hall breweries Bar-le-Duc excluding 
service important safety and well visible. Andra is not the forum but first. Interventions 
independent experts or opponents are planned. From the outset, the CNDP lets say 
committees of opponents who give heart joy. Representatives opposed the landfill elected 
recover 60,000 petitions to the President of the CNDP. Then Patricia Andriot, Regional 
Councillor of the Greens Europe Ecologie, mounted the rostrum. Three quarters of the room 
up! Equipped with whistles, yelling "referendum" or launching the now famous "releases" 
his words are inaudible. Finally comes a certain Gerard Longuet (UMP senator of the Meuse, 
ex-New Order), the room is unleashed and he goes booed, continued in the parking lot.

The second public meeting ends well. It lasted less than three quarters of an hour!

The next day, a press release, the CNDP decided to postpone the meeting to be held 
Thursday, June 20 at Nancy. Their debate will continue in new forms: meetings near (? Such 
as "Tupperware") debate "interactive" on the Internet ... As for associations between es, 
they will travel to Nancy, June 20, against organizing a panel discussion on the street. 
We have just learned that the CNDP has also cancel debates Cherbourg Ligny en Barrois 
(Meuse) and Chaumont (Haute-Marne)

However, to date, for its upcoming "public debate", the CNDP gives us an appointment on 
September 5 in Saint Laurent des Eaux (Loir et Cher) on 10 September Bugey (Ain), 
September 19, at Marcoule ( Gard) on September 23 in Paris on October 3 Commercy (Meuse) 
and concluding on October 10 Echenay (Meuse) ... But nothing is less certain ... The 
summer and early fall will be hot ! Contact: burestop.free.fr

Denis - Reims 25/06/13

Inset

The Burial of those who will die tomorrow This is the title of a pamphlet of 32 pages, 
published in May 2013 by "All Nucleocrats Are Bastards! ". This is a contribution to the 
fight against the proposed radioactive waste disposal in Bure. To put the 
"mouth-watering", here is the bridging of its conclusion: "If today's debate on the 
implementation of Cig?o, geological dump Andra is a farce The project is real and it works 
well. The start of drilling is planned for 2018. The first waste should arrive in 2025. 
The machine is launched: it is time for us to organize to stop the massacre "..." If the 
nuclear power industry as need to start burying the waste quickly is to continue to 
produce "... "No no police or without nuclear experts. Therefore possible revolution in 
nuclear society? Nuclear sign it the triumph of authoritarianism? Between scientism and 
defeatism is the struggle. For if the revolutionary possibilities seem now darker than 
they have been by the past, unable to live in this world is about to anticipate the 
funeral of one of the humanity - not yet born - can not let us sleep in peace. " Found on 
the Internet by his choice of authors, copy of this brochure and its distribution are 
they, welcome. To obtain it: allnucleacratsarebastards@riseup.net or you can write to: OCL 
/ egregore, PO Box 81213, Reims cedex.