a “water convoy” will leave Sainte-Soline to reach Paris in August

Collective “Basins no thank you” and the Earth Uprisings call for participation in a “water convoy“will leave Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) to reach Paris, from August 18 to 27, reports France Bleu Poitou on Saturday June 3.

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This new mobilization against the new basin construction sites planned for the fall in Deux-Sèvres, Charente and Vendée will be “a great water trip“, composed of bicycles and tractors, explains the collective in a press release.

If the route is not yet known in detail, the convoy will stop in Orleans “around August 24” and will consist of “a series of local interventions to maintain pressure on decision-makers, funders and subcontractors of basin construction sites“, in order to achieve “a moratorium on mega ponds across the country“says the press release.

“We will go and demand accountability from the Loire-Bretagne Water Agency, the body which decides on the financing of these basins at 80% with public money. (…) We will take action against the cooperatives and fertilizer and pesticide industries that force the construction of these infrastructures to maintain their profits“, continue the organizers of the convoy which will go to the Ministry of Agriculture, before a “surprise ending“, August 26th.

On March 25 in Sainte-Soline, massive demonstrations brought together between 6,000 and 30,000 opponents of the mega-basin project. Violent clashes with the security forces left 5 injured, two of them seriously, for one of them the vital prognosis has been engaged for a time.