The French “will live better thanks to the energy transition,” said Elisabeth Borne, who detailed the French strategy towards carbon neutrality by 2050 on Wednesday in the Assembly, without convincing the opposition.
During this debate without a vote on energy policy, which follows the one held on October 12 in the Senate, the Prime Minister raised “two condemnations”.
“Decarbonization and sobriety will protect us from future crises. They will allow us to better control prices. They will be synonymous with social justice, because each one will contribute according to their possibilities. And we will help those whose lifestyle and work will be impacted the most,” she said.
An energy transition that “goes hand in hand with growth”
Furthermore, according to Elisabeth Borne, “the energy transition goes hand in hand with growth and job creation. It will support reindustrialization and allow the emergence of sectors and sectors of the future.” The head of government defended the Executive’s policy, which is going to “minimize the impact of the energy situation in our country this winter.” Although “we are also preparing for the possibility of having to make specific and very short shortcuts.”
To be “the first great industrial nation to emancipate itself from fossil fuels”, the French plan “is based on three pillars”, the first of which is “energy sobriety”. Second pillar, “the production of carbon-free electricity around nuclear and renewable energy,” he added. The third is based on “the development of new energy vectors, such as carbon-free hydrogen.”
The Prime Minister also recalled the will of the government to “modernize” the French nuclear park, and welcomed the approval of the bill on renewable energy by the Senate, saying that she was “convinced that this method and this spirit of compromise may also prevail in the Assembly” when it is considered in December. But her arguments are far from having convinced the opposition.
After the election of Emmanuel Macron “on the promise of an emerging nation”, the French “discover today that perhaps they will have to find the sails” this winter, launched the leader of the deputies LR Olivier Marleix, criticizing “the abandonment of the nuclear sector ” and “the absence of a project for the EDF national champion”.
Opposition criticism
RN MP Jean-Philippe Tanguy described the Macronists as “climate hypocrites” who would be “blinded by globalist ideology”, mocking “the fault of the French”. “What is needed is to relaunch the only industry that has demonstrated its effectiveness, the nuclear industry,” he insisted.
For the communist Sébastien Jumel, the “dogma of free and undistorted competition” weakens “our sovereignty and proves incapable of caring for the planet.” Energy must “escape the logic of the market,” he added, and called for “regulation by the public power.” Environmentalist Julie Laernoes, for her part, criticized the government’s “perpetual policy of energy drunkenness” and its “damaging nuclear stubbornness.”
“We must get out of the European absurdity” that links the prices of electricity and gas, in particular claimed the socialist Dominique Potier.
“There is an urgent need for climate, there is an urgent need to move away from carbon energies and it is being delayed,” launched LFI MP Matthias Tavel. “You could reach out” to the left by accepting more ambitious measures on renewables, “but the President of the Republic advises on this issue as on others to look to the right,” he added.
Source: BFM TV
