The PCF deputy for Seine-Maritime estimates on franceinfo that France “has delivered energy to the markets when energy is not a commodity, but a common good of primary necessity.”
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“If we want to develop a French sector for nuclear power and for the other modes of energy production, we need planning, we need consultation and we must not put them in like we play Monopoly by letting the market do its thing. work”, said Thursday, February 10 on franceinfo Sébastien Jumel, PCF deputy for Seine-Maritime, after the announcement by Emmanuel Macron of the roadmap for the energy future of France. The Head of State particularly 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.”
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“We have liberals who are correcting the bad copy they left to France”notes Sébastien Jumel after Emmanuel Macron’s speech in Belfort. “We gave up for 30 years knowing how to manufacture nuclear power plants, and today we are paying a high price.” The deputy believes that France “delivered energy to the markets when energy is not a commodity, but a basic common good”. He also pleads for us to find “elements of competence”. He regrets that the President of the Republic did not “no training announcements” and nothing said about how to correct “what Flamanville revealed to us”. Sébastien Jumel wants “an exemplary EPR in social terms, an exemplary EPR in environmental terms and a high-level EPR that allows us to create jobs and added value.”
The MP highlights the “public control of French energy policy”Who is here “the only condition for sustainable funding. And it is the only condition for the EPR not to be done in a low coast way”. He defends “high-level nuclear with high levels of qualification, with key jobs, with training and with support from the territory so that it irrigates France in terms of jobs.”
Sébastien Jumel also denounces the posture of Emmanuel Macron, “a president who commits himself for 50 years while he is still there for two months, a president who ignores the future of public energy management, a sine qua non condition for projecting himself into the The next 50 years in terms of energy policy, and a president who acts as if setting up wind turbines at sea is less complicated than on land, while at sea, there are artisanal fishermen already weakened by Brexit. They don’t need a forest of masts to grind up what remains of vitality for artisanal fishing.”