The Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, called on “everyone to take their responsibilities” in view of the examination of the bill in the Senate.
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Lhe 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 at this stage “not on the agenda”, she said on France Inter.
“I take the French to witness and I call 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.
No “political postures”
The text aims to accelerate the deployment of solar and marine 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”. Agnès 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, 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. »
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However, she said, “49.3 at 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 secrecy from their offices, they are in support of this text. I do not believe that we must give room to political postures […] while 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 and in the Assembly and I am listening 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”, a she added.