A parliamentary commission of inquiry will be launched into the controversial A69 motorway project between Toulouse and Castres, at the initiative of environmentalist deputies who used their annual drawing right this Tuesday, January 16, which allows each group to create the commission of his choice.
“It will be a matter of highlighting all the collusions that there may be in this matter”detailed to AFP the environmentalist deputy Christine Arrighi, denouncing a “ecocidal scandal of a construction site which has no reason to exist, neither economic nor financial, and even less environmental”.
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“Anachronistic”, “climaticicide”… Why the A69 motorway project is contested
Environmentalists formalized their appeal during the conference of presidents of the National Assembly on Tuesday. The Assembly’s Sustainable Development Committee has yet to approve the creation of this commission of inquiry.
A “big useless project”
“It is a large, useless project of 53 kilometers which completely symbolizes the wandering of a system and software which dates from the 1980s”criticized Christine Arrighi on Tuesday.
“350 hectares of arable, wet land and trees suffer from this situation, and over these 53 km, we already have a two-lane national road”continued the deputy for Haute-Garonne, who intends to conduct hearings of associations, but also in “the political-media sphere”et “the industrial and financial sphere”.
A69, the wrong-way highway: “A divide is widening between scientists and politicians”
She explained that she wanted to investigate the Atosca dealership, and the dealership of “fifty-five years” granted by the State.
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She also explained to AFP that she had obtained annexes to the motorway concession contract on Monday, but that certain pages had been “crossed out”On behalf of “industrial secret”.
The political class divided
The highway project divides the political class. If LR and RN deputies have recently spoken out in favor, the left is mainly against, with the notable exception of the socialist president of Occitanie Carole Delga, who defends the highway against the advice of first secretary Olivier Faure.
A debate on the project must also take place within the Assembly’s Sustainable Development Committee, following a petition from the La Voie Est Libre collective, opposed to the project.
380 students and former engineering students of the national school of public works of the State called to abandon “this ecocidal project from another time”in a column published Monday by “Liberation”.
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The highway construction site, against which several demonstrations have taken place in recent months, is moving forward “according to the planned schedule”declared the prefect of Occitanie Pierre-André Durand on December 18.
“Around 40 construction sites have started, half of the earthworks (…) half of the engineering structures (…)”detailed Martial Gerlinger, general director of Atosca, in December.
2024-01-17 03:34:50
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