While a text aimed at protecting EDF will be examined this Thursday, February 9, the president of the company should go to the Golfech nuclear power plant. The CGT is waiting for him with a firm footing. At the same time, the results of sampling in the Garonne during the summer of 2022 should be published.
This Thursday, February 9, the chairman of EDF, Luc Rémont, appointed head of the group last October, is expected at the Golfech nuclear power plant in Tarn-et-Garonne. The CGT reserves him “a welcome commensurate with the crisis that is going through the energy sector”, according to their press release.
On February 9, 2023, the National Assembly will examine the text adopted by the Finance Committee on February 1st. It aims to protect EDF. Article 1 plans to nationalize EDF to ensure public ownership and unity of the energy utility. For the union, nationalization is “essential to return to a real regulated tariff established on the basis of the national operator’s production costs and not on the basis of prices speculative that have nothing to do with a physical reality”. For the FNME-CGT, it is therefore necessary to suspend and eventually eliminate the mechanism of the Arenh which is “an anti-industrial and scandalous device.“
The CGT also denounces the loss of sovereignty and energy independence. Many speakers highlight the disastrous consequences of competition on a basic necessity product in the network economy, which cannot be stored. “Only a board of directors made up of users, representatives of the Nation and the government leaving an important place to employees and their expertise can guarantee missions at the service of the Nation”, explains the union in its press release.
For their part, the Network “Sortir dunuclear”, Stop Golfech and CRIIRAD will present the results of samples taken in the Garonne during the summer of 2022. A summer that has seen a succession of extreme heat events, direct consequences of climate change. The waterways that run through French territory have been particularly affected, as have the fauna and flora that live there.Nuclear power plants, which discharge chemical and radioactive substances into waterways all year round, have an impact on the aquatic ecosystem, particularly during periods of heat wave and drought, when the flow of waterways is reduced.
