A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #345 - Ecology, Ecocide Project: Fight against an "electric farm" (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In the Pays de Fougères, an "electric farm" project on the site of a 
former mine demonstrates, once again, the hypocrisy of green capitalism. 
A fight is being organized. ---- In Montbelleux, in the Pays de 
Fougères, the site of an old Wolfram mine is located on a hillock 
overlooking the surrounding fields. Its reclassification as a site of 
memory of the mining world (thanks to the efforts of a local 
association), surrounded by a wood which maintains soil that has never 
really been decontaminated, was a shaky compromise which, failing to 
repair the damage done to the environment, stabilized its potentially 
harmful effects. Things could have stayed there if an inspired farmer 
had not planned to install a photovoltaic power plant there. This 
"field" of solar panels responding to the sweet name of "electric farm" 
will however have nothing of a farm, and ticks all the boxes of the 
useless and imposed project.

To be economically profitable, the private investor asked the town hall 
to be able to acquire the wood in order to total an area of 16 hectares. 
While our regions are full of hangars and car parks which, once covered, 
could accommodate photovoltaic installations, the public authorities 
have validated this project, arguing for the need to ensure the region's 
energy sovereignty. We are therefore faced with what seems to be a real 
insult to common sense: agricultural land and woods will be razed and 
artificialized to allow energy production to be "decarbonized"... Let us 
add that in the event of work and deforestation on the site , the risk 
of releasing elements (lead, arsenic) into the surrounding rivers was 
underestimated by the public authorities.

Logically, a 2009 decree prohibits this type of practice. But this is 
very meager protection to the extent that town halls simply need to 
change the destination of agricultural land in the Local Urban Plan 
(PLU), to make it eligible for this type of land take. The opacity of 
public authorities in this matter (refusal to organize public meetings 
with local residents, to make impact studies available, etc.) can only 
be explained by the profoundly absurd nature of such a project, which 
only finds its meaning in its purely economic aspect.

Organize and fight against "green" productivism
Here again, financial considerations seem to take precedence over the 
rest, agrivoltaism is only a new space of valorization for agribusiness 
which is done to the detriment of our environment and for the benefit of 
private interests, under the cover of sovereignty energy and so-called 
"green" production (yes, you know, the green of dollar bills).

Organizing and fighting against ecocide projects must be one of our 
priorities. We are the first and first affected by their harmful effects 
on health, and the last and last to benefit from their economic 
benefits. It is therefore, ultimately, a question of survival for the 
working classes.

The merchants of dreams who get fat by promising us a carbon-free and 
connected world, even as they destroy living things, we will always find 
their profits in the way. And if they persist, we will know how to make 
them pay too.

Dahel (UCL Fougères)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Projet-ecocide-Lutte-contre-une-ferme-electrique
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