The Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher warned on Wednesday against “political postures”, as the Senate begins examining the bill to accelerate renewable energies, which promises to be disputed.
However, the use of Article 49.3 of the Constitution to pass by force is not at this stage on the agenda, she said, on France Inter.
I am taking the French as witnesses and calling on the political groups to be extremely vigilant, she said. With this law, it is a question of our energy independence, the purchasing power of the French, the competitiveness of our companies and the fight against global warming. So everyone will have to take their responsibilities.
The text aims to accelerate the deployment of solar and offshore wind power in particular, by opening up land around highways and car parks, by speeding up certain procedures and by allowing local residents to benefit from a reduction in electricity bills.
However, the LR rapporteur of the text in the Senate has already introduced the principle of a right of veto granted to mayors on any renewable energy project.
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Mrs. Pannier-Runacher warned against this measure which consists in giving a right of veto to all the mayors who are around a municipality hosting a project and this even though we have no information on this project. We would allow mayors who do not welcome renewable energies to give their opinion. But the mayors themselves do not ask for this type of device.
However, she said, 49.3 for the moment is not on the agenda for a simple reason: when I listen to people on the ground and when I listen to political groups in the secret of their offices, they support this text. I don’t believe that we should give room for political postures (…) whereas the people who propose these texts are themselves not very sure that they serve the interests of the French.
I work with all the political groups in the Senate as well as the Assembly and I listen to all the proposals that will make it possible to accelerate the deployment of renewable energies and to do so in a manner acceptable to the French, she said. addition.