Are there places or buildings that are more strategic than others if power cuts were to occur next winter?
While seasonal temperatures are beginning to be felt and electricity needs are increasing, the debate has been lively for several days between political representatives and energy operators.
Guest of BFMTV on Tuesday morning, EELV MP Sandrine Rousseau, as usual, proposed a shocking idea.
“
Do we need to keep extremely consuming infrastructures like airports as a priority?
Me, I say no
, ”launched the elected representative of Nupes.
Way for the finalist of the primary EELV to validate this option to better mock that of a hypothetical shutdown of "
an artificial respirator
" of a sick patient.
"
I think it's more important
," she insists.
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A clear response to the statements of the spokesman for the electricity supplier Enedis Laurent Méric who, on Monday on the same channel, had thrown a stone into the pond by detailing a protocol intended to
"prevent and possibly help"
the thousands of patients with respiratory failure under assistance.
In this case, the latter could find themselves in areas without power, therefore not being classified as priority people spared from any power cut.
The other vision defended by Sandrine Rousseau is to
“extinguish everything that is not absolutely essential”.
Prioritize hospitals and schools
And the EELV deputy from Paris to explain that “
we could
” also “
turn off supermarkets
”.
A solution which, according to her, makes it possible to better pose the stakes: “
What is vital?
What
(is)
is access to health.
Hospitals must absolutely be preserved, I think everyone agrees on that.
"Following the declarations of the Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye, who had affirmed last week that certain schools could be closed in the morning in the event of load shedding, Sandrine Rousseau considers on the contrary that "
access to education is a priority and that is one of the trade-offs we have to make.
»
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Tuesday morning, it was Emmanuel Macron himself who raised his voice, from Tirana in Albania where a European summit is being held.
“This debate is nonsense.
The role of public authorities, public companies, is not to transfer fear, nor to govern by fear
,” thundered the President of the Republic, who praised
“France's great energy model.
Before adding, in a martial tone: “
The role of the government, ministers, operators, is to do their job to provide energy.
That's all.
And then it is to call everyone to responsibility so that there is sobriety.
It's not to start scaring people with absurd scenarios.
Stop all that.
We will hold out this winter despite the war.
