The EELV on Friday demanded the holding of a citizens’ convention on nuclear energy, vowing to “go on the offensive”, while the bill aimed at accelerating the construction of new reactors reaches the Assembly on Monday.
“If you take 150 people in France, sorted, and (…) who can work on the issue seriously, having access to a contradictory and rational debate on the issue, I bet that by leaving (their) opinion it would not be at favor of nuclear”, explained the national secretary of the EELV Marine Tondelier, at the end of a “master class” of several experts in nuclear energy.
According to her, the surveys that indicate that the French are in favor of nuclear energy are linked to the fact that there is no real debate on the subject in the country and that “millions of euros are spent to carry out the cultural battle by all possible means “. on the pronuclear ones”.
“We are going to go back on the offensive on the issue”
“We are going back on the offensive on the issue,” he warned, acknowledging that “perhaps” at the time of the Fukushima disaster in Japan in 2015, environmentalists were “wrong” in believing they had won the battle of opinion.
“Surely the millions spent by the nuclear lobby have contributed to this,” he added.
We underestimate the power of this lobby, telling everything and anything, without being contradicted”, stressed Yannick Jadot.
The MEP and former EELV presidential candidate called for “an informed debate on nuclear power” and “more education”.
“A channel of manipulation and lies”
For Marine Tondelier, the nuclear sector is “a sector of manipulation and lies. If these lies had been made in another sector, people would be in jail, ”she declared.
We are going to make this proposal for a nuclear convention, and perhaps if Macron does not respond favorably, we will have to organize it ourselves,” he said.
Four days of debates are announced starting Monday at the Palais Bourbon in first reading, around Emmanuel Macron’s promises to build six new EPR reactors by 2035, and to launch studies for another eight.
Although the law has already been approved in the Senate, for Yannick Jadot, “we are at the right time.” According to him, “in this law, there is the will of the prince to show objectives that do not enter into this text”, but from the investment programming law (PPE), later.
Source: BFM TV
