“No need to be on the route to be affected: we already pay the tax for the high-speed line, fear for the service to small stations, not to mention career projects,” calls out Léonie Rey, from the Desrailha collective, during of a mobilization organized against the Bordeaux-Toulouse and Bordeaux-Dax LGV project, this Friday, February 16 at La Réole station (Gironde).
A few minutes from the rails, the Fontet quarry, managed by Lafarge, will soon cease operating after thirty years of service.
Nothing to rejoice the residents.
“After their passage, all that remains are holes filled by the rising water table.
This water, exposed to the wind, to the heat, evaporates faster than that remaining in the water table,” describes Hugues Savoye, the president of the association of liquidated Garonnais, also worried about agricultural land.
“Where it has been dug, it is irretrievably lost and the earth that has been moved around will be infertile for five to ten years.
A mess.
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