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Normandy Dairy Towns Challenge EDF on Nuclear
Reactor The
lush green hills overlooking the dairy farms of Le Chefresne in Normandy have
become a battleground in France’s efforts to boost power production. In
a corner of “We
will be living in a microwave oven,” said Jean-Claude
Bossard,
mayor of Le Chefresne, home to 300 people and about three times as many cows.
“We want proof that there won’t be dangerous health effects.” More
than half of 64 affected communities have passed local laws in a bid to ban
the structures on health concerns. The French government, which owns about 85
percent of EDF, says the mayors overstepped their authority because the
project is in the national interest. An administrative court in the city of
Caen tomorrow will hear the state’s case against 16 of them. The
battle to block the new power line is threatening to delay EDF’s 4
billion-euro ($5.1 billion) new-generation Evolutionary Power Reactor, or EPR,
being built in Flamanville, 127 kilometers (64 miles) north of Le Chefresne.
The reactor is a prototype for EDF, which wants to export similar technology
to the U.K., China, U.S. and Italy. For
more than a year, environmental groups have protested against the plan,
camping out on top of existing pylons, occupying government offices and
holding marches. ‘A
Charade’ A
green light from the court would strengthen the efforts of EDF’s grid
operator, Reseau du Transport d’Electricite, or RTE, to push ahead with an
open hearing into the power line, a necessary step before it can be built. “The
public inquiry is a charade,” said Laura
Hameaux,
of the environmental pressure group Greenpeace
France, who is
advising the communities. “There is a total absence of democracy regarding
the power lines.” EDF,
the world’s biggest operator of nuclear
reactors,
has hired more engineers to work on the 1,650-megawatt reactor to meet the
2012 deadline. Paris-based EDF, whose 58 plants generate 77 percent of
France’s power, wants to operate 10 of the reactors around the world by
2020. “This
Flamanville project contributes to renewing and strengthening our
expertise,” Chief Executive Officer Pierre
Gadonneix
told a gathering of world nuclear industry and political leaders in Compensation
Opposition
to the pylons shows “it is now easier to get a nuclear reactor built than to
put up high-voltage cables,” Gadonneix told lawmakers at the National
Assembly today. The
power line in question, the “Cotentin-Maine” link, would be a network of
cables and pylons spanning 163 kilometers, according to a document RTE gave
local mayors, including Bossard of Le Chefresne. Towns
and residents would get about 20 million euros in compensation, with Le
Chefresne to receive about 198,000 euros for hosting 2,687 meters of the line,
the document states. “We
are doing the maximum possible to gain acceptance from the local people,” Nathalie
Kosciusko-Morizet,
Health
Concern Her
ministry said the line won’t hang over houses or farm buildings and that 270
kilometers of existing and planned lower voltage lines would be buried to push
through the project. Additional
compensation for loss of property value is also planned, Jean-Marc
Perrin,
head of the power line project at RTE, said in a telephone interview. The
government promised an “in-depth analysis” on the health effects of
high-voltage power lines as part of the public inquiry and said in a statement
on the ministry’s Web site that “appropriate measures will be taken.” The
strongest electric fields are found beneath high-voltage lines, according to
the Geneva-based World
Health Organization.
“It
has become increasingly unlikely that exposure to electromagnetic fields
constitutes a serious health hazard, nevertheless some uncertainty remains,”
the WHO Web site says. A
2005 study led by Oxford University’s Childhood Cancer Research Group found
higher risk of blood cancer and leukemia among children living within 200
meters of the cables. David
vs. Goliath RTE
says the health concerns are unfounded. “We can’t allow false ideas to
stand uncorrected,” Perrin said. The
grid operator has held about 1,300 local meetings since December 2006 to gauge
the best route for the project, he said. RTE has just emerged from a
decades-long battle to get high- voltage cables to Spain across the Pyrenees,
in southern France. “We
are now ready to meet with land owners and make adjustments if necessary,”
Perrin said. The
communities and pressure groups say they will continue their fight. “We
are like David fighting Goliath,” said Christophe
Gosselin,
a coordinator of a group based near Le Chefresne opposing the plan.
“People’s health isn’t for sale. We want to create a precedent for all
high-voltage lines.” To
contact the reporter on this story: Tara
Patel in
Tara
Patel Bloomberg,
Dec. 10
"Update
on pylons / THT
lines routes?" on the AngloINFO Forum
(Very
interesting.)
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L'Allemegne mentalité differente , il est vrai n est il pas ?Concernant la santé des populations , ils ont pris le probleme en amont!! eh oui Gros progrés chez nos voisins Allemands, c est une toute autre mentalité , ca concerne la defense des populations EXEMPLE A SUIVRE http://www.next-up.org/pdf/CommuniquePresseRTEAllemagneFaitSaRevolutionEnConciliant%20DeveloppementEconomiqueEtEnvironnement14122007.pdf
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