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The government at the dead end of the StocaMine project

2021-12-29T18:57:59.247Z


The Constitutional Council invalidated a "budgetary rider" aiming, despite a court decision, to bury toxic products.


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What strategy for StocaMine, this subsidiary of the Alsace Potash Mines whose main shareholder is the State? After the administrative court of appeal of Nancy, the Constitutional Council has just issued a new halt to the green light given by Minister Barbara Pompili, on January 18, to the final burying of 42,000 tonnes of arsenic, d asbestos and other pollutants. Buried since 1999 in a network of potash galleries, in Wittelsheim, near Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), this toxic waste constitutes a threat - denounced by elected officials and associations - for the largest water table in Europe. However, no one disputes the urgency of the site's safety work, which was stopped in 2002 after a terrible fire.

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Source: lefigaro

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