WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE news journal UPDATE - (en) France, OCL CA #336 - Greenly green 336 (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

For several years the collective "La Lutte des Sucs"(1) has opposed the
project of Lolo Wauquiez who wishes, in "his department" Haute-Loire
(its Virgin of Puy and its municipal scandals), to transform 10 km of
the RN 88 in 2 x 2 lanes. ---- As usual, for this it is necessary to
destroy 140 ha of wetlands and arable land, more than 100 protected
species, build bridges, divert several rivers in the name of opening up
and progress with complicity authorities (DREAL, Prefecture).
Expected cost: 226.5 million public money, including 87% from the AuRA
Region. In the real world, it will undoubtedly be more than 600 million
because the project was so poorly put together to please the right-wing
fuhrer ruling the Region. Example: to date, the Region has still not
been able to purchase all of the land needed to build the road. So she
tries to force her way through.
This project obviously arouses strong opposition on the ground despite
pressure on elected officials (Lolo holds the purse strings for certain
funding and makes it clear), regular intimidation, the systematic
sending of gendarmes (arrest and police custody of a regional
environmentalist elected official during a demonstration, which Mister
W. and "his" complacent gendarmes wanted to pass off as an eco-terrorist..)
Recently a very legalistic but determined field action made it possible
to block the work in progress until spring 2024. Since the end of
September, activists have taken turns daily at Rouchas, the location
where a strategic bridge for the project is to be built.
Equipped with good shoes and the prefectural decree concerning the work,
they demanded strict application of it: ban on the passage of machines
on private property or in priority natural areas, reminder that an
appeal on the Declaration of Public Utility is still awaiting judgment...
For the work to really begin, it was obligatory that the archaeologists
responsible for the preventive excavations intervene on the site. On
November 14, the chtars of the PSIG (Gendarmerie surveillance and
intervention platoon, responsible for interventions in sensitive
environments and intelligence missions) therefore intervened to leave
the way clear for the archaeologists' excavator engaged without
authorization on a private land. Results: gassing of around thirty
demonstrators and 7 arrests.
The next day, remobilization of the opponents and faced with tensions on
the ground, the archaeologists decided to suspend their excavations.
 From there, everything comes to a halt because they have to leave the
area to carry out other searches elsewhere.
In short, no work will be possible before spring 2024 and that is still
a win.
Argh, all these regulations and administrative agencies that hinder the
smooth running of profit. Fortunately Larcher and Macron, who met in
February, are on the same line: a common hatred of independent
administrative authorities. The liquidation of IRSN (nuclear) is already
well underway and the rest should follow...

The art of lathering up without risk
For compliance with the rest of the environmental laws we can trust
Wauquiez who decided alone to refuse to apply the Zero Net
Artificialization (ZAN) process included in the "Climate and Resilience"
law of 2021.
Lolo is still and always at the vanguard of the reaction against a
"ruralicidal law" even if it only does at best slow down the
concreteization of soils.
Lolo does his electoral and presidential communication and nothing else.
He knows well the workings of the state and legislative machine which
passes laws for which the implementing decrees do not come out or which
contain all the exceptions allowing their scope to be reduced to nothing
or which have no lasting financing.
There is another scenario: making people believe that we are moving in
the right direction by using crappy figures.
The State's "green budget" dedicated to the ecological transition is a
good example. First of all, it is very small: a maximum of 40 billion,
or barely 7% of the 570 billion of the 2023 budget.
Another 18 "brown" billion are considered "unfavorable for the
environment". The rest, 518 billion, is "gray" because "neutral on the
environment".(2)
How was this calculated? By an internal administration working group
made up of current civil servants. A guarantee of impartiality (!) and
above all a vast catch-all of anything and any way.
An example: is the financing of wind turbines "green" because they
produce carbon-free energy or "brown" because they use concrete, steel
and plastics to manufacture them? Unfathomable mystery and no answer.
"Personnel expenditures of ministries linked to the
environment[are]green...those of other ministries are gray". For what?
No answer.
The "green revenues" planned in the 2024 budget have melted like snow in
the sun: no more tax on plane tickets (several hundred million EUR),
Maintained the subsidy for non-road diesel (farmers). Liquidated the
highway tax (600 million)...
With all these lobbies at work and with state cynicism, Lolo Wauquiez
and his naughty friends do not have too much to worry about their Amazon
warehouse, their luxury housing estate in the mountains , their
artificial lakes to make artificial snow to allow Mister W. to have HIS
2030 Winter Olympics in HIS Region of his own.

Pandora and Nimrod still fly to the aid of the countryside
In the torpor of a burning summer of forest fires, Darmanin, with his
backside on fire, announced in August 2022 "the creation of 3,000 green
gendarme positions" (3). Problem: they do not appear in the 2023 budget
(nor 2024 for that matter).
Let the destroyers of nature rest assured. In fact, it is not a question
of creating 3000 positions but of training a few guns in a few
gendarmerie brigades. They will always be able to chat with those of the
DEMETER cell serving the FNSEA or with "the vigilant hunters" co-created
with the hunting federations and the Prefectures.
Covered with aid and subsidies, pampered politically and electorally,
self-promoted as the best defenders of nature and rurality threatened by
hordes of bobos on bicycles, our alcoholic Nemrods feel in a position of
strength in the security and stigmatizing atmosphere current.
Thus, on August 23, 2023, the president of the Moselle hunting
federation "Pierre Lang, invites his members to be armed from September
3 until the 11th."(3) Why
? Because 30,000 Travelers have planned an evangelical gathering near
his home.
Faced with these (obviously) chicken and metal thieves, Lang, who is
also mayor and former UMP deputy, sounds the alarm. The mission of the
GROCCS (GROs Cons de ChasseurS) is - in agreement with the French Office
of Biodiversity (OFB) and the gendarmerie - to spot and spy on "any
suspicious person or vehicle... without arousing suspicion..." and then
notify the authorities "in the event of suspicious events", of course
without "stigmatizing a population.»(4)
Problem. Neither the OFB nor the gendarmerie are aware. But as 5 years
ago the hunters had been asked to report damage to the natural
environment during another gathering, Lang felt himself growing
partridge wings in his helmet.
Normal, when the State gives you the exorbitant power to police your
fellow citizens in nature, that gives you ideas for maintaining order.
The leaders of these 800,000 armed men always want more
responsibilities, they who are at the forefront of the defense of
rurality and the Republic in the face of the savage hordes that roar in
the countryside.
This is what Lang tried to do. In this, he is only following like a
faithful pointing dog, the bluish trace of his eternal national
president, Willy Schraen who declared in 2021 "that his members had a
role to play in matters of community policing".
We will soon return to the hectic life of the hunters who, to their
usual turpitude, have decided to add that of touting dogs for Macron
during the European elections.

Electric campaigns to make money
Since 2011, agrivoltaism has consisted of installing solar panels
ensuring "significant electrical production" on agricultural land, a
piece of forest or heath by making them coexist with "significant
agricultural production".
In 2018, ADEME estimated that this was of no interest since the
photovoltaic capacities of roofs (parking lots, agricultural and
industrial roofs, buildings, houses, etc.) and industrial wastelands,
with 176 GigaWatts, far exceeded the needs decided by Macron for 2050
(100 GW).
But she suddenly changed her mind when the sector's industrialists
(designers, installers, electricity producers) pointed out in high
places that it was much easier and more profitable to install industrial
photovoltaics on agricultural land than on land. roofs (which sometimes
need to be reinforced).
The law on "accelerating the production of renewable energies" adopted
in January 2023 proves them right. It is "a copy and paste of the bill
proposed to senators by the solar panel industry.»(5) And wonder of
wonders the industrial lobby, "France agrivoltaïsme" has succeeded in
"excluding solar panels from the law against the artificialization of land.»
It's an explosion: 200 projects are counted. And go ahead, I plan to cut
out islands of green energy production in the forests around Loulle in
the Jura (75 ha), to destroy a renatured area with its protected species
(project of the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône near from Lyon). Already
more than thirty hectares of the Daigny forest (Ardennes) have been
ravaged by greedy green energy industrialists, sometimes helped by
certain nature protection associations, in the name of energy transition
and the lesser evil.
All these projects are now being carried out with the support of the
FNSEA, which has become vice-president of the lobby already mentioned.
Why have the environmental mafiosi converted to photovoltaics?
It's simple enough to cry: it brings in wheat, green energy. This is
already the case in the great cereal plains where wind turbines planted
in the fields provide comfortable "additional income" to large cereal
growers.
And the planting of solar panels in Tarn-et-Garonne, for example, brings
in EUR2,500 to EUR5,000 per year per hectare instead of EUR1,400 for wheat.
Only problem: there will be no more cereal production... Because despite
the false speeches, how can we cultivate under solar panels (absence of
light and water)? How to plow with the vast network of buried cables and
sensors? Agricultural land becomes industrial.
This scam was sold by Macron saying he wanted to "work with farmers to
enable them to have, through ecology, a response to falling yields:
through agrivoltaism, biomass, sustainable fuels.» In short, everything
we hate and fight.
This is done in the name of progress that cannot be refused (because
progress progresses, everyone knows it), of choices imposed slyly by the
State, the digital industrialists (including Xavier Niel) (6), the
bandits of the agro-industrial sector, the land grabbers (land grabbers
and speculators) and the FNSEA.
The Confédération Paysanne clearly denounced this project "which is
marketing and aims to legitimize land and financial opportunism in a
difficult context for the peasant world.»(7)
It "takes away from autonomy... Its perverse effects are multiple:
attack on the nurturing vocation of the land due to artificialization...
reduced availability of land, precariousness of peasants, financial
windfall generating conflicts of interest, loss of quality of life at
work, degradation of landscapes, damage to biodiversity...»
At the end of the year, the decree governing agrivoltaism has still not
been published. On the other hand, the "Ministry of Ecological
Transition is submitting another regulatory text for public consultation
until November 24: one that will facilitate the destruction of species
protected by renewable energy promoters.» With this "all projects
exceeding a certain size will automatically be considered as responding
to "compelling reasons of major public interest", as long as the
objectives of the multi-annual energy programming have not yet been
achieved.» (8)
And, the inevitable counterpart of agrivoltaism is the robotization and
digitalization of agriculture, controlled remotely by AIs that consume
ever more "green" and carbon-free energy.
Cultivate the land or cultivate kilowatts, feed the populations or feed
the bandits of industry, the choice should be clear.
But the crime syndicate that is the FNSEA still runs the shop with its
lobbies, its chambers of agriculture, its pesticides, its social
security, its bank, its water thefts, its multinational seed
cooperatives (Limagrain) and of bio-diesel (Avril group), its political
and state relays, its public violence covered up by the public
authorities... while it knowingly co-manages with the State the slow
death of the peasant or even agricultural world.
An anecdote. A few years ago the FNSEA, led at the time by
agro-businessman Xavier Beulin (Sofiproteol, CETIOM, Crédit Agricole,
etc.) organized a series of demonstrations as grandiose as they were
violent against imports of low-cost meat. Issue. At the same time, a
subsidiary of Sofiproteol (Farmor) organized the importation of chickens
at low prices.(9)
This became known but neither led to the resignation of Beulin, nor
curbed the destructive and autophagic ardor of the union members. of the
FNSEA.
Suffice to say that to have bread (edible) and roses (scented) as the
American socialists demanded at the beginning of the 20th century, you
will have to wet your shirt and everything else!

Freux et Eugene the Jeep

Notes
1 - https://laluttedessucs.noblogs.org
2 - Bercy reduces the ecological transition to the bare minimum. G.
Tournillon. Canard Enchaîné of 11/15/202
3 - The green gendarmes are not ripe. Canard Enchaîné from 08/24/2022
4 - The hunting dogs bark, the caravans pass. DH Canard Enchaîné of
08/30/2023
5 - Supercharged agriculture. Canard Enchaîné of 02/08/2023 and The
campaigns fall into the trap. JL Porquet. Canard Enchaîné of 07/20/2023
6 - see "Robots, coaching and artificial intelligence... agriculture
according to Xavier Niel". Reporterre. And, the sites of the
agri-robotics exhibitions: World FIRA in Toulouse or the SIMA (Salon
International des Mutations Agricoles) professional exhibition in
parallel with the agricultural exhibition
7 - We will not fall into the trap of agrivoltaism! Positioning
regarding photovoltaics on natural agricultural and forest lands.
Peasant Confederation
8 - The energy transition cannot be to the detriment of food sovereignty
and biodiversity. Peasant Confederation. Press release dated 11/23/2023.
See also the petition "Photovoltaics on natural, agricultural or
forestry land: we will not fall for this!"» published on Mediapart
9- Who is Xavier Beulin, contested boss of the FNSEA, received on
Wednesday by Manuel Valls? Samuel Laurent. Le Monde of July 28, 2015.
And the 5-part investigation by Reporterre: "The great investigation
into the hidden master of French agriculture" published in 2015

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