Renaissance MP and ex-Minister for Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili warned against “a nest of litigation” of “all anti-wind turbines” in the face of this article at the initiative of ecologist Delphine Batho.
MEPs have maintained an article of the bill on renewable energies providing that the authorization to operate a wind turbine takes account in particular of the “visual saturation” and the need to “to diversify” the energies, despite the fears of “litigation nest” from the presidential camp.
Added in committee on the initiative of the ecologist Delphine Batho, the article provides that the authorization to operate a wind turbine on a territory takes into account “electricity generating power”from “number of installations (…) already existing in the territory concerned”of “the need to diversify renewable energy sources locally” and “to prevent the effects of visual saturation”.
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Recognizing a “problem” in some territories, the Renaissance rapporteur for the Pierre Cazeneuve bill nevertheless proposed an amendment on Tuesday to delete the article, arguing that it was “partly satisfied by existing law”. Above all, he argued that he was going to “the reverse of the bill” acceleration of renewable energies, in first reading in the Assembly after adoption in the Senate.
“Litigation nest” of “anti-wind turbines”
“You introduce new criteria, the energy mix, saturation, which are not hard-defined in the law, you will leave the door open to infinite litigation”defended the rapporteur, supported by the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who fears “a lever to create litigation”. The Renaissance deputy and ex-Minister for the Ecological Transition of Jean Castex Barbara Pompili warned against “a nest of disputes” which will be used “all anti-wind turbines”.
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Delphine Batho, herself a former Minister of Ecology under Jean-Marc Ayrault, on the contrary defended a necessary measure to recognize the “efforts” territories, “diversify renewable energies and get out of all wind power”judging that the initial bill did not give “In nothing” sufficient guarantees to respond to this problem of visual saturation. She also invoked the desire not to let this question of saturation remain a “argument of those who would like to prevent the development of wind power”.
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The deputies of the left alliance Nupes, the Republicans, the RN, but also a handful of deputies of the majority voted against the amendment to delete the rapporteur Renaissance, obtaining in fact the maintenance of the measure in the text.
During the same session, the presidential camp, on the other hand, rejected attempts by deputies to reinstate a Senate amendment, deleted in committee at the Assembly, which established an assent of the Architect of Buildings of France for any wind project located less than 10 km from a historic monument.
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