Pointed out in recent months for pollution scandals, the Lafarge group announces that it is reducing the concrete production capacity of the Javel plant (15th century). But an association of local residents is contesting this project and wants their demands to be taken into account.
At the beginning of September, the diffusion of images of discharges into the Seine of contaminated water from the cleaning of the mixer trucks or the washing of the loading and unloading dock of the LafargeHolcim concrete plant had made the collective of opponents to the project jump. extension of the concrete plant.
Supporting photos, residents of the Port of Javel in #Paris point the finger at the mixer trucks of #Lafarge responsible for industrial spills in the #his. #pollution pic.twitter.com/v71rH81WPH
– Anthony Paone (@PaoneAntony) September 4, 2020
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The association of residents of the port of Javel, which brings together a hundred co-owners of the district who have been campaigning for three years against the project had initiated proceedings before the administrative court of Paris. The administrative court hearing concerning the request for annulment of the prefectural decree authorizing the expansion of the cement plant was to be held in early December, but the Lafarge company announced that it had renounced this decree and reduced the size of the facilities. “The capacities (of the 15th century concrete plant, editor’s note) will indeed drop from 120,000 m3 of concrete per year, as originally planned, to 80,000 m3 as announced in discussions with local residents.” The significant decrease of the production capacity of the future Mirabeau power station corresponds to the expectations of local residents and public authorities “ is it mentioned on the group’s website.
“Lafarge has avoided losing in court by demanding the annulment of this decree” welcomes Maryse Fourcade, vice-president of the Association of residents of the port of Javel. “Following the waste disposal videos both on the 15th century Lafarge site and also on the Quai de Seine site in the 13th arrondissement, we had two consultation meetings with the group in September” she explains.
“Do we really need this huge volume of concrete in Paris”,
“On these first two meetings, nothing concrete came out, we clearly had the feeling that we were not moving forward”. “We were faced with interlocutors who kicked in touch on all our suggestions”. “With the Covid epidemic, the meetings have ceased, now we are told of a meeting in January, but we are not very optimistic, given the tongue-in-cheek and bad faith that has been opposed to us until now” she continues.
