"If the spirit of the project does not change, we will still be on the ranks," warns Claire. The secretary of the association for the protection of the banks of the Seine participated, this Sunday noon, in a picnic protest against the project of the giant warehouse Green Dock. The Goodman company plans to build a building 600 m long and 35 m high along the Seine, on the port of Gennevilliers (Hauts-de-Seine).
The commissioning of this giant liner is announced for 2025. But Goodman keeps postponing the filing of his building permit. It is now announced "for this summer and at the latest at the beginning of the school year," says the company this Sunday.
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In the meantime, opponents say they are "preparing the response", including through militant actions like this one. "We are talking about a great wall of China," says Antoine, president of the association for the protection of the banks of the Seine. The landscape trace will be really disastrous, it is the sign of a port that develops in total autarky. »
This mobilization picnic was held in front of the future warehouse, on the Seine-Saint-Denis side, on the towpath of Épinay-sur-Seine. Some solid buildings overlook the river but vegetation dominates.
"This winter, I came to film the colonies of cormorants, there were maybe 700, 800"
"In the 93, there are some precious areas like these, we need these islands of freshness," implores Antoine. According to him, the construction of this warehouse would cast a large part of nature in the shadows, not to mention the negative repercussions on the Natura 2000 area located on the tip of L'Île-Saint-Denis, just opposite the project.
"When I discovered this place fifteen years ago, I completely fell for it," recalls Jeanne, who has lived in the small island town for twenty-three years and defines herself as "a rebellious citizen". "This winter, I came to film the cormorant colonies, there were maybe 700, 800," she says. It was beautiful. »
The Goodman company specifies "to have carried out a voluntary consultation with local residents and associations and public under the aegis of the town hall of Gennevilliers. This dialogue was the subject of a synthesis of contributions and a series of developments made to the project. For example, the urban farm, "whose greenhouses increased the height of the project", will be replaced by solar panels and a photovoltaic plant.
Some members of the collective are already planning to attack the building permit when it is filed.
