Le Figaro Bordeaux
These new oil wells are definitely making a lot of noise.
In the forest of La Teste-de-Buch, the Canadian group Vermilion Energy wishes to carry out eight additional oil drilling operations, in order to be able to continue extracting oil from the Gironde subsoil until 2040, the date on which the law provides for the end of the exploitation of hydrocarbons on French soil.
A project strongly criticized by many scientists, elected officials and environmentalists.
The Mériadeck slab in Bordeaux - pedestrian space around which the buildings of the Gironde prefecture, the departmental council and Bordeaux Métropole are located - was the scene of a Greenpeace mobilization this Friday.
Several activists tinted the basin located in front of the prefecture black and installed a fake drilling tower there, in order to denounce this construction site.
A banner notably called on the prefect not to authorize these oil wells, the decision now being in his hands, after a favorable opinion from the commission of inquiry made public last November.
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“The endless expansion of the oil industry”
For Greenpeace Bordeaux, authorizing these oil drilling would be
“ecological nonsense and an anachronism, at a time when the global scientific community, the UN and the International Energy Agency are unanimous: no new energy projects fossil must not see the light of day if we want to respect the Paris agreement (
limit global warming
to +1.5°C compared to the 19th century)”
.
Activists are also calling for people to sign the petition against these future oil wells, which has already collected more than 35,000 signatures.
“We recall that this new well project is all the more contested as it is located in the same forest which was ravaged by the flames of the devastating fires of the summer of 2022, symptoms of climate change which is now a reality everywhere in the world"
, adds Greenpeace, for whom
"the authorization of this project, symbol of the logic of endless expansion of the oil industry, would be an inconsistency with the speech of Emmanuel Macron who so far declares on the international scene wanting to make France the first nation to get away from fossil fuels
.