Sea snakes have a hard life. And sometimes they stick their heads out of the water to show that, not only are they still alive, but that they intend to turn into viable projects. The structuring files which are the creation of new public transport in this landlocked sector that is Haute Gironde, the project to establish an airship manufacturing factory in Laruscade and the candidacy of Blayais to host a pair of EPR2 reactors on the site of the Braud-et-Saint-Louis nuclear power plant, are still under fire…
Sea snakes have a hard life. And sometimes they stick their heads out of the water to show that, not only are they still alive, but that they intend to turn into viable projects. The structuring files which are the creation of new public transport in this landlocked sector that is Haute Gironde, the project to establish an airship manufacturing factory in Laruscade and the candidacy of Blayais to host a pair of EPR2 reactors on the site of the Braud-et-Saint-Louis nuclear power plant, are still in the spotlight.
1 An express bus line between Bordeaux and Blaye
This is the first good news of the year. The express bus between Bordeaux and Blaye, as promised by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, enters service this Monday, January 8. This line of the regional intercity coach network is part of the metropolitan RER system “aimed at promoting the modal shift from the car to public transport”. A departure is planned every twenty minutes during rush hour (sixty minutes during off-peak hours), reminds the Region.
This new line, the 430 of its nickname, will connect the center of Blaye to the Aubiers district in Bordeaux from Monday to Friday, from 5:15 a.m. to 9:15 p.m. The line includes stops in the towns of Cars, Berson, Pugnac , Saint-Laurent-d’Arce, Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Cubzac-les-Ponts, Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Ambarès-et-Lagrave, Sainte-Eulalie, Carbon-Blanc, Lormont.
There was the Créon-Bordeaux (our photo). Here comes the express coach with a high level of service Blaye-Bordeaux. The first of 51 daily rotations takes place this Monday.
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2 Flying Whales: start of work in 2024?
The elected representatives of the Community of Communes Latitude Haute Gironde, led by the mayor of Laruscade Jean-Paul Labeyrie, were moved by the media treatment reserved for the Flying Whales project, following the publication of the unfavorable opinion rendered by the General Inspectorate of the environment and sustainable development. Sébastien Bougon, president of Flying Whales, was then reassuring, anticipating in our columns a delay of “five or six months” while “resuming the file” and enriching it.
The City of Laruscade, in a publication posted a few days ago, in turn recalls that the Environmental Authority has “only an advisory role”, and that “the final decision rests with the prefect”. By granting a grant of 3 million euros to accelerate the preparation of the building permit, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, shareholder of Flying Whales, has for its part demonstrated its confidence and the firmness of its involvement in the project. The new calendar? According to the municipality, financing for the factory having been acquired, work could begin this year 2024, for “certification of the first device in 2026, and start of activity in 2027”.
3 Any news on the EPR2 project?
The application file for hosting a pair of EPR2 reactors on the Blayais power station site is currently being examined by EDF, recall the members of the monitoring committee, chaired by Alain Desgranges. Three sites have been revealed in 2022. Seven candidates are in the running for the next four places to be filled, recalls Alain Desgranges. But for the committee, which succeeded in bringing together the Gironde economic community, numerous mayors and parliamentarians from Gironde and Charente-Maritime, as well as the president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, the Blayais project, in Braud-et-Saint- Louis, “checks all the boxes”.
All eyes will nonetheless be on Paris in the coming weeks. The Nuclear Policy Council scheduled for mid-January will see its expectations scrutinized. The same goes for the bill for energy sovereignty, which must be presented to the Council of Ministers within a few weeks. On the possibility of going beyond seven locations (i.e. 14 EPR), the Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Questioned by “La Tribune”, boot in touch without closing the door: “It’s a good subject for discussion with parliamentarians. »
Smicval still under the spotlight
Phase 1 of the deployment of the Néo Smicval plan continues at the start of the year in Cubzaguais, recalls the website of the Joint Union. The Touche pas à mes vins collective, fiercely opposed to the disappearance of door-to-door household waste collection in favor of collective collection points, does not however intend to allow it to continue. He is encouraged in this by an interim decision from the administrative court of Toulouse, last December, which not only pronounced the suspension of the execution of the deliberation of the Community of communes Cœur de Garonne (Haute-Garonne) engaged on a similar path, but also ordered “the reestablishment of collection at door to door carries residual waste throughout its territory. » The case must still be examined on its merits. Atmosphere…
2024-01-07 19:16:19
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