"Notre-Dame-des-Landes", or the great ecological silence

[moinsdewatt]

The battle for the Notre-Dame-des-Landes referendum has started

THE WORLD | 09.06.2016

Since Thursday, June 9, the 967 voters of Loire-Atlantique can consult the information file on the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport project, on the site of the National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP). They should therefore be able to answer the question: "Are you in favor of the Nantes-Atlantique airport transfer project in the town of Notre-Dame-des-Landes?" ", Asked by the government during a referendum to be held on Sunday, June 500.

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In Nantes, the countryside is in full swing. Even before the work of the CNDP was online, debates followed one another. Wednesday evening, on local Télénantes television, the first debate was organized. An hour and a half face to face between Françoise Verchère for the "no" and Alain Mustière, from the association Wings for the West, on the side of the "yes", and numerous interventions by the two camps on the different aspects of the dossier .
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http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2 ... _3244.html

[Christophe]

For having passed through it, I think that Nantes airport is more than sufficient and under-exploited for the region ... and this for years to come!

It is larger and more pleasant than that of Strasbourg while the population of the urban area is equivalent: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des ... _de_France

Notre Dame des Landes is just a "gift" from the government to Vinci and others ... but that's only my opinion ... but what? I thought the government was bankrupt?

[moinsdewatt]

Notre-Dame-des-Landes: the Council of State validates the "referendum"


The highest administrative court, seized by several associations, considered that the question put to the voters was "not ambiguous".

20/06/2016 Le Point

The Council of State has decided. The court has validated the consultative referendum on the controversial project to transfer Nantes airport to Notre-Dame-des-Landes, which is to take place next Sunday. For the Council of State, "the terms of the question submitted to the voters, which are not vitiated by any error or ambiguity, are in no way likely to affect the sincerity of the ballot organized by the decree under attack". In addition, the administrative court emphasizes that this consultation "may allow the State to confirm its choice and decide to implement its project or to renounce it". The judges thus dismantled the two main arguments of the associations. Nearly 968 people registered on the electoral lists in Loire-Atlantique are therefore invited to decide on the transfer or not of the current Nantes airport to the Notre-Dame-des-Landes site.

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http://www.lepoint.fr/environnement/not ... 4_1927.php

[sen-no-sen]

Little reminder: There are too many airports in France

The 40 smallest airports in mainland France have an average traffic of less than 10 passengers per year and are therefore not profitable.

France has nearly 160 airports. Environmentalists have been denouncing, since the 60s, a waste of resources and an obsolete vision of spatial planning. But the critics today come from the airline industry itself.

The Board of Airlines Represantatives (Bar) in France recently denounced the "plethora of airports in France, the costs of which are ultimately borne by airlines operating in France without profit for air transport as a whole".

"There are 84 airports in mainland France which have commercial passengers. 66 share around 4,3% of French traffic. And 40 airports represent less than 0,3% of traffic, or around 300 passengers," explains Jean-Pierre Sauvage, president of Bar France.

http://www.lechotouristique.com/article/il-y-a-trop-d-aeroports-en-france,62131

It is quite distressing to note that our leaders do not even listen to specialists in the sector, however pro-aeronautical ... we can make the same remark on EPR,,ITER, The ecotax etc ... etc ..

[Ahmed]

There are also a number of aerodromes * which operate at great cost thanks to community subsidies and whose traffic is more than symbolic (and not oriented towards the use of the populations): their construction was decided by the oligarchies local, in the same spirit as all the GTII (great useless and imposed work), just to be talked about and to satisfy their ego ...

* The difference between airport and aerodrome is that to be classified in the first category, it must be taken by a minimum number of commercial passengers (from memory, I believe it is 500), i.e. transported on board airliners or airplanes used for the transport of passengers for consideration. It is the DGAC which draws up the respective lists each year, in view of the operating reports. An airport must, moreover, have specific equipment to receive the public and possibly a customs (which can be circumstantial) during international flights, but the presence of these arrangements does not validate the designation "airport" in l absence of the minimum attendance condition.

[Christophe]

This is in line with my remark above ...

For having passed through it, I think that Nantes airport is more than sufficient and under-exploited for the region ... and this for years to come!

NDL is just ... useless ...

[moinsdewatt]

Consultation in Loire Atlantique today!

[Christophe]

And victory of YES! This is the second "referendum" surprise of the week and the score is not really tight: 2% pro ...

http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_ ... id=9337946

But who voted YES since we heard more protesters than pro-projects ???

Well let democracy speak ...

Unless :

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Sorry it was too easy ... (I deliberately did not take too good care of the photomontage, huh)

[Ahmed]

"Democracy" is only a doormat for the oligarchy which uses it to the best of its interests. This result was fairly predictable, since it was indeed for this purpose that it had been organized: with a positive result (sic), the public authorities regained their room for maneuver, especially since this election was consultative and adventure, if the votes had been unfavorable, it would have been possible to take no account of it (on condition of taking great precautions ...).
I am even astonished that the ratio of votes in favor of the destruction of these wetlands is so low, so haunting is the propaganda aimed at destroying nature and concreting it as much as possible (in the name of "progress") ...

[Christophe]

Sniff ...