It was a health-related centre of the American army through the Second World War, in advance of staying deserted in 1966. Found in the middle of the excellent cultures of Aigrefeuille-d’Aunis (Charente-Maritime), about 20 kilometers from La Rochelle, this rural website and isolated it was then a den of hooligans. Today it is an industrial zone (ZI), with its SMEs, its artisans and even a horse boarding dwelling. With this ZI des Grands-Champs, the organization Novaem been given, in mid-August, a favorable opinion from the investigating commissioner on its software for environmental authorization for Seveso significant-threshold plants classified for environmental protection (ICPE), on the foundation of an maximize in its storage capacity. This SME of 25 staff designed in 2001 and set up below due to the fact 2015 assembles and shops fertilizers. In individual, ammonitrates – or ammonium nitrate -, known to the normal public as accountable for the AZF explosions in Toulouse in 2001 or the port of Beirut, Lebanon, in 2020.
The general public inquiry into this classification took location from May well 31 to July 13. Two people arrived to consult the investigation file all through business office hours at the city hall. On 9 June a public assembly introduced with each other three people today. On July 12, Nupes (New Ecological and Social Well-known Union) named a demonstration in front of Novaem. A dozen people today came, inquiring in certain for an extension of the investigation period. The ask for remained unanswered. “I am stunned by the conclusions of the commissioner, there is a major attack on the democratic course of action. All the things was performed in magic formula, as a result the handful of contributors in the community assembly. No matter of the possibility, there is an unacceptable lack of transparency “, thinks Katia Bourdin, regional councilor of New Aquitaine elected by the Charente-Maritime (ecological, solidarity and citizen group) which is next this file thoroughly.
“I won’t be able to say I’m apprehensive”
The argument does not mobilize the crowd, but community elected officials experienced also noted the deficiency of details. So substantially so that at the Community of Municipalities of Aunis Sud (CdC), on 26 July, he refused to convey an impression on this undertaking, believing “that he experienced not gained all the important components for forming an knowledgeable viewpoint. In question, a doc from the Departmental Hearth and Rescue Assistance (SDIS) made up of paragraphs hidden for confidentiality factors. “It failed to fulfill me extremely a great deal. We were surprised to have an exchange with Novaem officers. I prayed not to penalize the organization, I believe that that the investigating commissioner, the specialists and the managers are conscious of the potential risks that may exist on this type of installation, I did not want to vote against. It is a really supervised sector ”, describes Jean Gorioux, president of the CoC.
The mayor of Aigrefeuille-d’Aunis, Gilles Homosexual, abstained through this deliberation. “I are not able to say I’m nervous. We have normally been told that they function with ammonium nitrate 27 (CAN 27, ed) which is not explosive. It relieves me, ammonium nitrate 33 is responsible for the new incidents. I believe the management and the community investigation disclosed that in their invoice there was in no way ammonium nitrate 33 “, underlines the 1st magistrate. The municipality 1st voted in favor of Te, a neighboring city, before turning about.
“What anxieties persons is ammonium nitrate and in actuality we only get the job done with CAN 27, a medium dosage. He was not associated in any significant incident. There are no detonating products listed here. This ICPE classification is a voluntary method on our element to raise our storage capability. We have invested 1 million euros for this task, which started two a long time in the past ”, assures Bertrand Béal, president of Novaem. All over the website, the neighbors achieved and confided that they had “vaguely” listened to about the classification “in the media and on social networks”, devoid of expressing good concern. On Thursday 1 September, the executive and his collaborators receive the elected officials of the CoC business, to clarify and reassure. The prefecture of Charente-Maritime must now give the eco-friendly mild in September. There is a very good likelihood he’ll observe the investigating commissioner’s assistance.
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