“To save the climate, we must invest massively in renewable energies and energy savings, starting today,” said the MEP and political adviser to Yannick Jadot.
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Emmanuel Macron’s roadmap for France’s energy future is “a great artistic blur”, review Thursday, February 10 on franceinfo Marie Toussaint, EELV MEP and political adviser to Yannick Jadot. The Head of State wants the construction of six new generation reactors and insisted on the need to “to resume the thread of the great nuclear adventure in France”. Marie Toussaint believes that “It’s a masterful blur of a person who clings to the nuclear industry and who refuses to assume his responsibilities in the development of renewables.”
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“Emmanuel Macron boasts of nuclear power as an ecological solution, he puts under a bushel the question of the dangerousness of nuclear power and the question of its waste which we absolutely do not know how to treat and which are toxic, radioactive for tens of thousands years”, points out Marie Toussaint. She insists on the urgency of acting on the climate issue. “We must reduce our emissions by 2030. Emmanuel Macron tells us – and he is extremely optimistic in relation to all the projections – that the new reactors will not be operational before at least 2035. We can clearly see that this is not the solution to the climate issue.”
The MEP also asserts that the model defended by the Head of State is “extremely expensive”. According to her, “To save the climate, we must invest massively in renewable energies and energy savings, starting today.”
In the field of renewable energies, Emmanuel Macron announced that he wanted to provide France with around fifty wind farms at sea to “target 40 gigawatts in service by 2050”. It also wants to multiply by almost ten the solar power installed by 2050 and double in 30 years the current capacity in onshore wind turbines.
“On renewable energies, Mr. Macron announces very good intentions”reacts Marie Toussaint. “But hell is paved with good intentions. France is bottom of the class”in this domain. “She has been condemned several times for climate inaction and one wonders what Mr. Macron has done in the last five years to not develop renewables when it was absolutely essential.”
The MEP denounces the “great smoke”according to her, figures given by Emmanuel Macron. “For the project to build six reactors, he did not give any sums. We do not really know how much it will cost. He bombarded us with figures and dates, but the figures did not go with the dates. He there were dates without numbers, numbers without dates.”