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Valérie Pécresse, LR candidate for the presidential election, believes that Emmanuel Macron is the “president of the zig-zag” and promises to have “a linear, clear, direct strategy” in terms of energy.
“Emmanuel Macron has led a policy of scribbling in energy matters”, tackled the candidate of LR at the Elysee, Valérie Pécresse, Monday January 10 in the “Presidential Mornings” of franceinfo. “He has closed [la centrale de] Fessenheim and today, it is reopening coal-fired power stations, that is to say, it has taken France from the 21st century to the 19th century in a mandate “, she mocked again.
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“It means that we no longer produce enough electricity today, and that we are obliged to make carbon-based electricity”, she insisted. According to Valérie Pécresse, LR presidential candidate, “it is an attack on the environment” and “to future generations, because we are polluting the planet”.
Facing “president of the zig-zag”, Valérie Pécresse promises to have “a linear, clear, direct strategy” in terms of energy. “I am moving forward on two feet, on the renewable footing and on the nuclear footing”, she assured, recalling that in Île-de-France, a region of which she has been the president since 2015, she has “developed geothermal, solar and heating networks”.
Regarding wind power, “controversial subject” as she recognized, Valérie Pécresse promises to develop it “with the approval of the populations concerned”. She proposes to hand over “in the local town plans of cities, areas where we can develop wind farms and areas where we cannot”. “The cities will decide, and it will be based on local consensus”, she insisted.