Joël Bigot wants the establishment of the e-commerce giant. There are 1,500 jobs at stake. The investigating commissioner ruled on October 20, giving a favorable opinion at the end of the public inquiry.
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► November 19, 2020
The socialist mayor of Petit-Couronne has decided. He announced to our colleagues France Bleu Normandie that he had signed the building permit for the future Amazon site, a gigantic multi-storey warehouse of 160,000 square meters.
Joel bigot Explain that e-commerce is part of life today, as was Redoubt, and that customers are free to choose how they buy.
The Prefect will now have to make the final decision (before the summer) to authorize or not the construction of this warehouse on the site of the former Pétroplus refinery.
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► November 4, 2020
In a decree published on November 4 by the prefecture of Seine-Maritime, the prefect indicates that given the conclusions of the investigating commissioner and in agreement with the promoter, he extends by 6 months from January 23, 2021 the deadline “ to rule on the application for environmental authorization filed by Gazeley ”.
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►20 October 2020
The investigating commissioner, Philippe Breton, gave a favorable opinion public inquiries concerning the environmental authorization and the building permit for the warehouse in Petit-Couronne (Seine-Maritime), 10 km from Rouen.
I give a favorable opinion given the overall consistency of the decontamination and requalification operation of the Petroplus brownfield site, […] no significant impact on the soil […], in the favorable opinion of the ARS […], integration into surface water treatment systems […]”
Amazon? Hush …
The project involves the rehabilitation and conversion of the 30 ha site of the Petroplus refinery.
It is a question of setting up a warehouse of over 160,000 m², capable of distributing 330,000 parcels per day, open 24 hours a day. Even if the description does not seem to leave room for doubts, Amazon still does not assume the fact of being publicly behind the project, which is therefore carried by the company Gazeley.
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This is not the first time that Amazon has targeted an installation in Normandy. She coveted land of 50,000 m² in Mondeville (Calvados), but the mayor of the town opposed it in order to preserve the employment of direct shops.
An opinion that has weight?
The government defines the role of investigating commissioner like: “the one who has the responsibility to lead, in an impartial manner, the public inquiry necessary for the realization of projects or the approval of plans or programs”.
He was chosen for four years by the administrative court after studying his candidacy, on the basis of a departmental list of aptitudes. “Subject to a duty of reserve, the investigating commissioner is independent, impartial and competent but is not an expert”, specifies the site of the government.
This is only an opinion, “however, the unfavorable nature of the conclusions rendered by the investigating commissioner is not without implications on a legal level”, alert le cabinet Green Law, specifying that if necessary, it is then necessary to reiterate a reasoned request for authorization.
The favorable opinion of the investigating commissioner therefore speeds up the process, even if the prefect remains the final decision maker.
Site plan within the framework of the building permit filed by the Gazeley company.
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Dangerous ground
The SDIS 76 demonstrated the dangerousness of an installation on the site of the former refinery in a report noting that the firefighters would be “faced with an operational inability to limit the spread of a fire”. Shortly after, on October 5, the Metropolis also opposed the installation of the e-commerce giant.
On October 23, the group of Ecologists, united and citizen followed suit and cried “scandal” after the favorable opinion published Tuesday.
The climatic impact of the daily flow of 2,062 heavy vehicles, making it possible to transit 330,000 parcels daily, is avoided in the report. Even though the Rouen Accord, which we signed in 2019 with all the municipalities of the Metropolis, sets a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 4 in our territory by 2050, as for the environmental impact of such a structure. “
Over 600 jobs
The closure of the refinery in 2013 resulted in the loss of 450 jobs. The defenders of the project, Joël Bigot, mayor of Petit-Couronne and Dominique Gambier, mayor of Déville-lès-Rouen among others, therefore put forward a strong argument: the creation of 611 jobs in normal times and 1,800 in peak activity thanks to on the arrival of Amazon.
The @MetropoleRouenN refuses Amazon; sadness to refuse jobs that will go elsewhere; we have so many people looking for work that we have a wasteland to convert in Petit Couronne; there are answers to environmental or fire requirements
– dominiquegambier (@dominiqugambier) October 5, 2020
The American giant, he prides himself on his exemplary employability: “In March 2018, Amazon was distinguished three times among the most attractive employers in France, in the framework of national benchmark surveys: the LinkedIn Top Companies 2018, Randstad Employer Brand Research 2018 and Universum Awards 2018. ”
Robot employees
Amazon working conditions
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Work yes, but at what cost? In his book In the Amazon, inflicted in the best of all worlds, Jean-Baptiste Malet, an undercover journalist as an employee of the company, does not hesitate to talk about the reinvention of Stakhanovisme.
Overwork, deplorable management, physical pain … the working conditions of the American giant are frequently subject to critiques.
The group of Ecologists, Solidarity and Citizen denounces: “The disastrous impacts of the unregulated development of e-commerce, which has destroyed 600,000 jobs in the USA.”
It is now the turn of the prefect of Seine-Maritime to decide, probably during the next Departmental Council for the environment and health and technological risks.
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