New retreat for the left in ecology: under the blows of the right and the RN, the approved deputies, Wednesday, May 28, new repeals of the principle of “net artificialization zero” (ZAN), within the framework of the bill on economic simplification.
From a brief majority of 105 votes to 97, the National Assembly adopted an article that allows, in particular, to “overcome up to 30%” the limit of developable natural surfaces, and this “without justification.” The purpose of the ZAN system is to fight the concrete of natural and agricultural areas.
The empty ZAN device of its substance
Previously, Right, RN and part of the macronists had also barely approved (77 votes to 75) an amendment that excludes the ZAN that the constructions recognized by the decree as “project of great national interest” told.
Which is equivalent to “completely empty the zan of its substance, and I am delighted,” he welcomed the chosen RN Pierre Meurin. “We no longer want Zan. So obviously we try to unravel him for all the threads they can exceed,” said his colleague Kevin Mauvieux.
Objective shared with Deputy Lr Ian Boucard, president of the Commission that studied the text, and who claimed to have “considerably reduced ZAN” to “allow many more industrial projects in our country.”
To disgust from the left, which failed to convince the environmentalist Nicolas Bonnet that “we have to stop organizing and save our environment more.” Because as his comrade Lise Belluco argued “if we do not begin to restrict ourselves (…) there will be sooner or later breaks.”
A system born from the climate agreement
These notches are also opposed in the ZAN, born in 2021 of the climate agreement convened by Emmanuel Macron, the government could only take note of the divisions of its central block, which inclined the balance to the right.
However, the Executive retained the initial measure of the article, aimed at facilitating the creation of data centers, making these vast digital data centers eligible for the “National Project of Great Interest”.
The Minister of Industry, Marc Ferracci, also had an envelope of “10,000 hectares for the” voted “industry, not subject to ZAN, and announced the next examination of a bill” in autumn “to soften the system.
Source: BFM TV
