(en) France, Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Courant Alternatif, CA #233 - the fight against the burial of radioactive waste in the late 1980s + Festival against the big nuclear dustbin bure (fr)

Back to the fight against the burial of radioactive waste in the late 1980s ---- On the 
occasion of the public debate on the proposed radioactive waste disposal Cig?o, the 
anti-nuclear struggle again speak a bit of it. This project is expected to Bure, a small 
town located at the boundary between the Meuse and Haute-Marne. A priori, this sparsely 
populated region and irrigated financially for twenty years by the nuclear does not seem 
to be a good breeding ground for the fight against the big nuclear waste. If Andra1 
settled there, this is also precisely why. Because she felt that here, it was unlikely to 
encounter strong resistance. ---- In 1989, a report by the Director of Atomic Energy 
Commission (CEA) said: "It is increasingly the primary constraint in this area [the burial 
of radioactive waste] is the ability of the population Local to accept the principle of 
storage, far more than the relative technical merits of different soil types (granite, 
shale, clay, salt).

Under these conditions, it seems essential that the choice of site is done quickly by the 
government to avoid crystallization of public opinion on three of the four projects which 
will in any case abandoned. For this choice, the need to avoid rejection phenomenon 
relayed at national level, as was the case in time for the nuclear power plant project in 
Plogoff, should be a major criterion. "If the CEA is such an analysis in 1989, is the 
burial of radioactive waste has already been the subject of a major mobilization in the 
late 1980s.

The first industrial solution promoted by nucleocrats to get rid of their waste was to 
dump them in the ocean. In the 1970s, international treaties are severely restrict the use 
of this technique. Therefore, burying several hundred meters deep radioactive waste is the 
only "solution" proposed by the nuclear industry to "evacuate" the waste it produces. He 
is absolutely imperative to implement this project. Indeed, it is unimaginable for the 
nuclear industry to continue to grow without control can say that the management of waste.


1987 announces plans early mobilization and


March 18, 1987, four regions are selected by Andra to study the possibility of 
implementing a geological disposal of radioactive waste. These four sites are located over 
different geological formations. This is the clay in the Aisne, salt in the Ain, shale in 
Maine et Loire and granite in the Deux-Sevres. At Bourg Ir?, Maine et Loire, and 
Neuvy-Bouin, in the Deux-Sevres, a major struggle against the draft Andra occurred from 
1987 to 19,902. It takes many forms. Mobilization of ?lu.es to clash with police. Events 
to sabotage drilling. Signature petition to the barricades.

Following the announcement of the selection of sites, anti-waste groups are formed. In May 
1987 and held the first coordination between collective formed in the four selected 
regions by Andra. Several events of more than a thousand people are held Segre in Maine et 
Loire. During the summer, many city councils come out against the proposed landfill. The 
first surveys were disrupted for several days. In Deux-S?vres, Andra moved premises in La 
Chapelle Saint Laurent. The mayor then makes available opposant.es field opposite that of 
Andra. A caravan is installed there from which went to and fro of employ?.es agency and 
visits it receives are observed. In August, the premises are visited Andra and all 
documents therein stolen. Fifty tons of granite which Andra vaunted the merits are tabled 
its doors.

1988, the struggle continues

In early March 1988, the anti-waste Anjou Coordination publishes the first issue of "The 
Anti-Waste." This newspaper is printed in 16,000 copies are distributed to all the 
mailboxes in the sector. Several numbers followed with runs even higher. Information 
meetings are held regularly. On March 19, the anniversary of the announcement of the 
project, eight tonnes of household waste is dumped outside the premises of Andhra guarded 
by armed riot police using tear gas and FAMAS. Meetings between the group of four French 
regions Andra tries to bury waste are held regularly during coordination meetings or large 
parties. Exchanges also take place with the same problem faced Spanish groups. In 1988, 
Andra acquired four acres of land to G?tine near Neuvy-Bouin. A few days later, four 
hundred people gather to challenge the culture.

1989 battle hardened

In spring 1989, in Bourg Ir? that Andra bought land. As the G?tine recultivation is an 
opportunity to a large gathering of thousands of people during the summer of 1989. On 
September 3, there are 15 000 people gathered in Neuvy Bouin and 17 September 10000 the 
great feast of Anjou without radioactive waste near Segre. On December 12, a squadron of 
armored gendarmes accompanied happens near Neuvy-Boin. Spotted by patrols in place for 
some time, the gendarmes are expected on the road 500. Face to face takes a little while 
and finally the police turn back. The prefect ordered the police to turn is relieved of 
his duties just days after being appointed. In Deux-S?vres, neither the army nor Andra 
never come to land coveted.

The next day, 250 riot police arrive in Bourg Ir? and occupy the land of Gibaudi?re. 
Quickly, 400 opposant.es gather and confront the police. Five of them are injured. The 
same evening, the local Andra Segre is sacked by fifty people. On 14 December, the road to 
Gibaudi?re is blocked by cars, old farm machinery and straw. The barricades are inflamed. 
Moreover, the land of Andra is screened and a ditch is dug around. On 15 December, three 
vehicles a subcontractor companies are Andra burned. Clashes take place throughout the 
day. On Saturday, December 16 held a "manifestation of shame for respect for democracy" 
which brings together thousands of people in the pouring rain. 800 riot police are 
present. A farmer was seriously wounded in the face by a tight shot tear gas canister. The 
prefecture counted using tear gas to 1500 Gibaudi?re during this week, half in one hour on 
December 16.

In the Bresse 19 December 30 000 liters of liquid manure is spread on the land purchased 
by Andra. Access roads are blocked by poplars and five trucks dairy. Poster is printed in 
5000 copies with the message "Nuclear Waste = flouted democracy." December 21, light 
clashes took place in Gibaudi?re. Bags of sulfur are burned around the grounds to smoke 
the soldiers who occupy. On December 22, a trailer of the subcontractor of Andra Herve 
burns. On 23 December, 350 opposant.es organize a toll free action between Nantes and 
Angers. On 26 December, 200 people barred three roads and a path around the site 
Gibaudi?re. On one of the barricades, we can see a sign "Caution explosive." A trench is 
dug in the road and a dozen power poles lie across. On 27 December, a 38 ton truck company 
Herv? fire. 29, it announced that it no longer work for the Andra and wishes to leave the 
area. The prefecture requisitioned its drilling equipment. While small businesses are 
willing to serve the gendarmes who occupy the area, pressure is made on the supermarkets 
as they stop to refuel military. On 30 December, 10 tons of manure is dumped in front of a 
supermarket that sells food to the gendarmes. That same day, the next TGV line is busy for 
a few hours.


1990 moratorium and stop work


On 1 January 1990, 2500 people gather to Gibaudi?re. 6, 300 opposant.es invest a train to 
protest outside the Ministry of Industry in Paris. Il.le.s accueilli.es by 300 police are 
preventing them from leaving the station and deliver them on a train to Angers where 
il.le.s are greeted by 200 people. Everyone goes into manifestation. January 11, clashes 
take place Segre around a convoy of drilling equipment escorted by gendarmes. In the 
evening, bolts and stones are thrown against the sub-prefecture and the police who protect 
the building to meet with tear. On January 17, a transport stones and gendarmes 
accompanying attacked by a hundred manifestant.es in Bourg Ir?. 20, 15,000 demonstrators 
marched to Angers. All municipalities in the Segr?en charter buses to go to the event. 
Finally, drilling is suspended on January 23 at the four sites. On 4 February, 10,000 
people gather to Gibaudi?re and a moratorium on prospecting for geological storage is 
decided on 9.

Today, the story of this struggle forgotten resonates with that which leads to Notre Dame 
des Landes. Diversity of means of action, unwavering determination and a certain 
radicalism in direct action. Surely the fight against the burial of radioactive waste from 
the late 1980s is a victory. While not definitive since Andra now plans to bury its deadly 
waste in the basement of Bure. But a victory nonetheless. Thus, to avoid an increase in 
this struggle to a questioning of the nuclear state has used enormous resources basting 
million Meuse and Haute-Marnes for over fifteen years. And today, it's against an 
implanted into a region whose economy depends on the project financial infusions nuclear 
we must fight. Maybe we find in the memory of the struggle of the late 1980s will inspire 
us ...

All Nucleocrats Are Bastards!

INSERT


The small festival against the big nuclear dustbin homespun, the 30/31 August to 1 
September 2013


Overview festival

It took place on the field of the opponent of the common Bonnet (55), involved in the 
project Cig?o (industrial center for geological storage), in which the council objected. 
Everything went pretty good, and a festive atmosphere, with bouff 'free drinks and prices, 
camping, an organization certainly not all the time square but it works well enough in the 
end even if it is based on a few people, and ties that develop or strengthen locally but 
also with people from the General Assembly (GA), called the Great West.

Came few people the immediate vicinity of the future project. This can be explained 
because these little nombreux1 live in a disaster area by industrial agriculture 
(intensive), with a lot of chemicals distributed in nature - if you can call again and 
because there places where you can see fields of pebbles so the land is intensively worked 
tirelessly -; farmers ransack their territory are in fact not known to be revolutionaries.

The debates and projections

Generally, I find that too much space was left to the experts, and expertise2, which 
evoked the details that are not important for a fight or to open it. The rest of what they 
said, of pals with a lot of information, as some people Bure Free Zone (BZL), for example, 
could do it. But he had to give a certain image, that of the so-called scientific credibility.

Overall there was also an atmosphere a little advertising as with colored vision and what 
false given the house of resistance (BZL) by the film A Bure for eternity and where you 
can see the pretty perfect world self-management and alternative lived in perfect harmony. 
This film also poses other problems as wholes points for antinuclear or at least, against 
the trash is worth it. Indeed, the phrase "Being anti-nuclear in France, is to be against 
the state" intervention Corinne Lepage, European Green MP, then that of a bishop as a 
member of the Catholic Church by the following ... report the presence of the latter, it 
is surprising that people.3 still give credit to the church just after the foul led 
opposition against it including marriage for all. And to top it off, example is given in 
the film, Luxembourg, a country known for its poverty and D system, as can phase out 
nuclear power with its industrial turbines, and large gold coins. - Nuclear Phaseout yes, 
but of capitalism, certainly not. -

Context of the GA on Sunday at Bure

After Fukushima the fight against voltage Cotentin-Maine and antinuclear line Very High in 
Manche4 led to the opening of a place to organiser5, barn Montabot6. It was opened from 
May 17 to 20, 2013 and the weekend was closed by AG. In this, it was decided, in 
collaboration with some invested in Bure, one of the following AG would at the next small 
festival against the big nuclear trash, especially to try to continue the discussion there 
were people who place at the opening of the barn.

The series of nicks public debates the issue of burying nuclear waste Bure would be 
launched soon. The AG Montabot labored also to the block and it is in this way, and by the 
fear caused by blockages debates Bure and Bar-le-Duc, the date specified in the Channel to 
Cherbourg , June 27, by the Particular Commission of Public Debates (PDCC) was canceled 
just a few days before.

The AG

One of the advantages of the latter was wearing a assembl?iste mode of organization in 
order to help break the isolation usual opponents of future trash and allow ownership of 
this struggle by other people geographically close to the project; the side, it was rather 
a success given the number of people present, if we except those organizing themselves in 
the English Channel, about 150 people in all were present. This observation is still to 
qualify for, even if it turns out that we are all residents of all projects in nucl?aire7, 
many people came from a little further than Lorraine.

One objective of this meeting was to continue discussions begun at Montabot. This was not 
the case because it was clear that most of those present had come there to discuss the 
fight against the project and blocking pseudo public debate and its aftermath. Prospects 
were discussed and a date for the next AG was released in November 2013 to 9/10/11.

For the first AG, conducted a few years before the start of projects, we can say that 
overall it was rather successful.


"Mobilize yourself in Meuse, if you do not want it hollow. "


September 23, 2013, CSH