Pannier-Runacher calls for avoiding dogmatic postures

The Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher called for avoiding “dogmatic postures” and “not opposing technologies to each other”, Monday at the Assembly at the opening of debates on the bill dedicated to renewable energies .

France is the only country in the European Union not to have achieved its objectives in terms of renewable energies, underlined the minister. We must therefore catch up on this delay and, for that, not be in the wrong fight. (…) The only battle that should be waged is that of carbon-free energies against fossil energies.

In this fight, we can always waste our time pitting technologies against each other. But, in the end, it will always be the French who will pay the price for these dogmatic postures, she pointed out, pleading for the articulation of renewable energies and nuclear energy, on which another bill is expected. in the coming months.

us, political leaders, to build the best combination of these energies to build the future of our energy system. us too to overcome divisions by following in the footsteps of the Johannesburg appeal launched by Jacques Chirac, the Grenelle de l’Environnement led by Nicolas Sarkozy and Jean-Louis Borloo or the Paris Agreement on the climate carried out by Franois Hollande and Laurent Fabius, listed Agns Pannier-Runacher, calling for compromise and co-construction.

There is no need to extend our discussions on the revival of nuclear production, we will have the opportunity to discuss this subject at the beginning of next year, during a future bill, also pleaded Henri Alfandari (Horizons ), one of the rapporteurs.

The minister also said she wanted to put territories and communities at the center of decisions, while LR deputies are demanding a right of veto for mayors against wind and solar projects.

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The executive also intends to reintroduce an article deleted in committee aimed at reducing the procedures against renewable projects. But the government will not sacrifice biodiversity for the benefit of the climate, she underlined about one of the fears of environmentalists.

On the issue of value sharing, Agns Pannier-Runacher said that she had heard the concerns about the initial mechanism for direct reduction on the bills of residents living near wind turbines.

The government will make several amendments allowing communities to support their inhabitants and will support the amendments made by the socialist group which target households in energy poverty, she announced.

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