RTE is planning a high-voltage power line between Spain and France which must notably pass through Seignosse. The mayor of this town will file an appeal. “If there is an opportunity to ensure that this route does not pass through Seignosse, we wanted to seize this opportunity,” he assures.
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The town of Seignosse, in the Landes, announced Friday October 27 that it will file an appeal in court against RTE’s mega power line project, reports France Bleu Gascogne. The project aims to connect Spain and France via a high-voltage electrical interconnection between Gironde (Cubnezais substation, near Bordeaux) and the Spanish Basque Country (Gatika substation, near Bilbao). The electric cable will mainly be underwater but certain portions are underground and pass through the Landes, in the municipalities of Seignosse and Capbreton.
The mayor of Seignosse, Pierre Pecastaings, would prefer the cable to run along the motorway from the Bordeaux region. He says it, he is not against the project “as such”but “if there is an opportunity to ensure that this route does not pass through Seignosse, we wanted to seize this opportunity”. The mayor assures him: “We have worked to ensure that this route has the least impact on residents, the environment and the landscape, but it is true that if an alternative exists and this route can go via the motorway, we saw fit to submit this idea via this appeal”.
On Wednesday October 18, the Landes prefecture published a decree to authorize RTE to intervene in Seignosse. The municipality therefore has two months from this date to file an appeal. At the beginning of September, the municipality of Capbreton also declared that it was going to file an appeal with the courts against this project.