They are used to operations, they are the ones who warn journalists to claim them. On the night of August 10 to 11, environmental activists entered the Sept-Deniers golf courses in Toulouse and Vieille-Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). they have filled some holes with cement and damaged lawns. A way to oppose the irrigation derogations that golf courses in France would benefit from.
Does a golf course consume the equivalent of 5,000 people in water?
the Old Toulouse golf coursea very wealthy outskirts to the south of the pink city, confirms this information on August 11, as well as the headquarters of the federation at Les Sept-Deniers where the Garonne golf course, not far from the Ernest-Wallon stadium. But the two officials do not want to comment except to specify that the structures will file a complaint.
The “Kikikou” collective is made up of members of several associations of environmental defenders such as Nonviolent Action COP21 and Extinction Rebellion. The watering of golf courses is authorized by derogation, despite the drought. The collective advances a figure dating from 2002 and relating to a hundred golf courses, evoking a water consumption equivalent to that of a city of 500,000 inhabitants.
There is a little more than 200 golf courses in France.