Parisian elected officials responsible for an information and assessment mission on the Seine recommend limiting industrial activities along the Seine
"to what is necessary for the life of the city"
, while the future of a power plant in concrete has become a sensitive subject at the Town Hall.
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The report, approved Wednesday by the transpartisan mission, and which must be submitted to the mayor PS Anne Hidalgo then submitted to the Council of Paris in July, recommends
"not to install new concrete plants"
,
"not to increase the influence on the ground of existing plants "
and that the City
" continues its effort to reduce the use of concrete "
, told AFP its rapporteur PS Thomas Chevandier. For the LR opposition, including an elected representative, Grégory Canal, chaired the mission,
"it was noted that in the long term, the concrete plants will be brought to disappear"
, which the rapporteur denies. According to Thomas Chevandier, the mission agreed to
"Maintenance of industrial activities on the banks of the Seine to meet the needs of the City, and that they are not relocated outside Paris, which would generate additional traffic, nuisance and pollution"
.
In October 2020, the Paris Council voted to suspend the renovation work on the Lafarge cement plant in the 15th arrondissement, of which Grégory Canal is the deputy mayor, the time for consultation with residents.
In December, EELV, an ally of Anne Hidalgo within the Parisian executive, denounced the project as
"an aberration on the ecological level"
.
During the consultation, LafargeHolcim then announced a
"sharp decrease"
in the production capacity of this plant.
Access to pedestrians and cyclists
The report also recommends making industrial and port rights-of-way accessible to pedestrians and cyclists on both shores, according to Thomas Chevandier.
"The idea is that during handling hours, there is a guaranteed passage on the low platforms, behind the sites, and as soon as they close, there is this cycle and pedestrian continuity. along the Seine ”
, explains the elected official.
The mission also sets the objective, without deadline, of making the private fleet on the Seine, ie 150 boats, the
“first zero carbon river fleet in the world”
. The riverboats or barges would be encouraged by subsidies to invest in electric or hydrogen propulsion. To ensure the bathability of the Seine by the 2024 Olympics, elected officials recall the need to replace 35,000 connections to the sewerage network.
"We will swim in the Seine before 2024,"
Anne Hidalgo, potential presidential candidate, assured early May.