Opponents of the giant tropical greenhouse Tropicalia project on the Opal Coast demonstrated in Montreuil-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais), denouncing a project “against nature”.
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The demonstrators were around 200 according to the prefecture, more than 380 according to the organizers. They castigate in this greenhouse project with a 20,000 m² dome, intended to house butterflies, hummingbirds, fish, reptiles and other exotic trees, “an anachronistic project these days”, according to Hélène Roche, spokesperson for the collective No in Tropicalia.
The collective believes that the project poses a problem both for the animal condition and for the artificialization of the land and the democratic consultation of local residents. The Gdeam62 association (Groupement de Défense de l’Environnement de Montreuil et du Pas-de-Calais) lodged an appeal against the building permit in March 2020 but Tropicalia has not yet responded and no hearing date has been given. is fixed at this stage, according to Hélène Roche.
Start of construction in 2021?
Its promoters, who present it as the largest tropical greenhouse in the world, obtained a building permit at the end of 2019 on a former agricultural land transformed into a “concerted development zone”, between the municipalities of Verton and Rang-du-Fliers. Estimated at 73 million euros, the project is partially subsidized by the region, to the tune of 2 million euros.
The list led by Karima Delli, the candidate for the union of the left and environmentalists for the regional elections next June, made it “an emblem of large useless projects, green capitalism and a short-term vision for the region. ‘attractiveness and precarious employment’. “Can’t we do something else with 73 million euros and 9 hectares of land?” This project will not pass if I am president ”.
This is the third demonstration of opposition to the Tropicalia project, the first stone of which should be laid in 2021.
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