A-Infos (en) France, OCL CA #340 - Fight against a lithium mine in Allier (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

This article was written at the beginning of February 2024, by a member 
of Stopmines03, for the site livresdhenri.lautre.net and relayed on the 
association's Facebook, following the announcement of 2 other sites of 
the EMILI project (Exploitation of MIca Lithinifere by Imérys). The 
collective having decided to participate in the CNDP (National 
Commission for Public Debate). The interest of this article was to 
highlight the contradictions of a so-called public debate, when the 
decisions had already been made. In Moulins, on the first day of the 
CNDP, the collective's speeches were oriented towards these questions, 
fortified by the absence of answers from the Imérys company on all the 
questions raised, while even the study of pre-feasibility has not 
started. It was a public debate in a spaceless void, where the Imérys 
experts were taken aback, under the benevolent eye of the media, 
surprised by an opposition, which, according to the prefect, did not 
exist in her department. (To find out more about the project see CA 
n°326 of January 2023).

We discovered, for some on France 3 Auvergne Rhône Alpes and for others 
through an article in La Montagne, the disclosure of the sites to 
receive the trilogy of ecological disaster to come: the crushing plant 
on the Echassières site in front of receive the underground mine, 
pipelines over 15 km to the place called "La Fontchambert"   between 
Saint-Bonnet-de-Rochefort and Naves, for the rail loading part; a 
lithium refining plant in Saint Victor at a place called "La Loue". We 
also learn that talks, on the sly, were held for months between the 
project's acolytes - the prefect of Allier, the local elected officials 
of the municipalities concerned and the operating company Imérys - while 
the public inquiry is in progress. its beginnings (1).

You said "democracy", we still need to agree on the term. Is it the 
election of our representatives who during their mandates will have free 
rein in their decision-making? We do not think so! As the introduction 
shows us, when decisions are made in the cozy lounges of ministries, as 
my grandmother said, when it is done on the sly, there is a wolf! But 
let's return to "democracy", the one that concerns us, the republican 
one, you know the one resulting from the revolution of 1789, where the 
good "people" rejected the monarchy by arms to replace it with a 
mercantile bourgeoisie, cities and towns. campaigns. Where freedom and 
equality coexisted with private property, as enshrined in the 
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. But how could these 
good "people" acquiesce to this nonsense that is private property, they 
who owned nothing? If only maybe one day he would have access to 
something. But since then this bourgeoisie has gained confidence, with 
the increase in its capital, where justice, the police and the army are 
devoted to it and maintain this "democracy", or republican values.

Our representative "democracy" stems directly from the Revolution of 
1789. The delegation of power is our disillusionment. Giving others the 
keys to our future can only bring us setbacks. The glaring example of 
agricultural discontent shows us that when farmers follow the directives 
of the FNSEA/JA (National Federation of Agricultural Operators/Young 
Farmers' Unions), they are treated with kindness by the State 
representing the urban bourgeoisie. and the countryside, but when the CR 
(Rural Coordination) has the presumption to want to stop the flow of 
goods (and therefore profits) from Rungis, its activists end up in 
police custody, or when the conf' (Peasant Confederation) pursues the 
blockades, its activists were dislodged with gendarmes.

As for our dear elected officials, they make decisions in a loud voice 
so as not to oblige their voters. For example, those of welcoming into 
their municipality, a factory, a loading dock or a mine, which will 
affect the environmental future for decades, and the kids will frolic in 
lithium dust and other heavy metals. This is the case of "Montmins" in 
"La Bosse" commune of Echassières which, after the exploitation of 
tungsten, arsenic, lead, still pollutes the place today. So did you say 
"democracy", the one where you vote and look the other way, or the one 
which involves us making decisions together that will define the life we 
want?

The CNDP (National Commission for Public Debate), would be an 
independent entity, as indicated on its website. It is therefore 
surprising to learn through the press (2), during an interview with the 
prefect of Allier in the newspaper La Montagne, that several public meetings

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