Before Sainte-Soline, there were many precedents.
The control of water is the subject of increasing bidding and increasingly lively opposition between the different users: farmers, industrialists, leisure professionals, ecologists, etc.
On Saturday November 6, 2021, a water reservoir for irrigation had thus been degraded and emptied in Cram-Chaban, in the north of Charente-Maritime, by anti-basin demonstrators.
They had gathered around the neighboring town of Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, in Deux-Sèvres, where a basin under construction was guarded by the police.
Legal fights
More recently, in Haute-Savoie, it was an artificial lake project used in particular to fill the snow cannons of La Clusaz which crystallized the tensions, before being canceled by the courts on Tuesday, October 25.
The prefectural decree authorizing the start of work for the construction of this hill reservoir has been suspended by the administrative court of Grenoble in the name of the protection…
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