Sandra Regol, deputy Europe ecology-Les Verts du Bas-Rhin and vice-president of the environmental group in the National Assembly, was the guest of “8:30 a.m. franceinfo”, Sunday October 30, 2022. Opposition to the project of mega-basins in the Deux-Sèvres, exploitation of French lithium, bill relating to the acceleration of the deployment of renewable energies, motions of censure … she answers questions from Jules de Kiss and Hadrien Bect.
Rally against a mega-basin project: Sandra Regol targets Gérald Darmanin
“There is only one person in charge, it is the principal, Gérald Darmanin“, assures Sandra Regol, this Sunday on franceinfo, the day after violent clashes during a prohibited rally against a “mega-basin“for agricultural irrigation, in Sainte-Soline, in Deux-Sèvres.”What is missed is having deployed such disproportionate force in the face of protesters who were not there to undermine or harm law enforcement“, estimates the vice-president of the environmental group in the Assembly.
“Unfortunately there are injuries on both sides“, she lamented. “61 gendarmes were injured, 22 of them seriously“, indeed tweeted the Minister of the Interior on Saturday. Several dozen demonstrators were injured, some were hospitalized, according to the organizers of the rally. Six individuals were arrested, indicates the prefect of Deux-Sèvres.
The Greens did not sign LFI’s no-confidence motion against third 49.3, but may vote for
After the third 49.3 triggered by the government, only La France insoumise (LFI), on the left, tabled a motion of censure. “We decided not to sign this one, it does not mean that we are against“, assures the deputy of Bas-Rhin. She “does not know yet” if the ecologists will vote for her.
Indeed, the position of the environmental group will be decided during “a meeting“, she says. The motion of censure of LFI, as well as that of the National Rally, will be debated this Monday from 3 p.m.
Bill to accelerate renewable energies: “Yes, we want to negotiate”
“Yes, we want to negotiate, yes, we want to move these texts forward“, says Sandra Regol, questioned on the bill to accelerate renewable energies, examined from Wednesday in the hemicycle of the Senate, before being in the National Assembly.
“The question is, and remains: is this government capable of understanding that it is not an ultra-majority, but that it must come to terms in a parliamentary system with the elected representatives of the people?“, she launches.
Sandra Regol’s reserves on the project to exploit a lithium deposit in the Allier
Sandra Regol is “neither for nor against“the start of mining by 2027 of a lithium deposit in the Allier, announced by the industrial minerals group Imerys, and which Emmanuel Macron welcomed. This deposit, “one of the greatest“from Europe, according to the company,”will be used to accelerate the energy transition by powering the electric car industry.”
For the elected ecologist, “the question to ask is what impact there is when we exploit“that lithium.”There is a primary need which is first of all to try to reuse the lithium that already exists, to use less of it and then we can see if, indeed, there is a need to exploit new mines immediately.“, she declares.
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