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The municipal council of Bozouls, that of Gabriac and the community of communes voted against the project. Explanations.
The public inquiry relating to the planning unit project in Bozouls has just ended (April 23) with 148 observations unfavorable to the project. Noise, olfactory, visual, little performance with harmful consequences on the environment or tourism and the quality of life are among the points raised.
The votes of elected officials have just responded favorably to the concerns of residents and residents of Causse Comtal. Thus, in Bozouls, the municipal council voted with seventeen votes against, three favorable and two abstentions. In the community of communes Comtal Lot Truyère, thirty unfavorable votes were counted for five favorable. At the Gabriac municipal council, a stone’s throw from the project, nine elected officials voted against and three for. Which makes Jean-Luc Calmelly, mayor of Bozouls say: “ There was a real feeling of rejection on the part of the population over time. ” Time to understand the project. More broadly, the functioning of methanisation. And not least, to see the failure of the units in Montbazens and on Aubrac.
-Criticized by some, the councilor of Bozouls wishes to recall the history of the project. “We had issued a favorable opinion on January 16, 2023 which was motivated by the economic dimension with a project brought together 80 farmers and local businesses and the virtuous ecological dimension to produce renewable energy. Since then, we have gone to see elsewhere and we have had access to the analyzes of the working group of the prefecture which highlight in particular the high degree of dangerousness in an accident -causing sector to access the way. agricultural installation work. “
Jean-Luc Calmelly also recalls that the public inquiry concerned only two points found by the administrative judge last summer, namely the driving of gas and access by the South route de Gabriac. “We got closer to the prefecture so that the public inquiry finally takes everything into account to allow everyone to express themselves. The fact remains that the administrative judge may only take into account the two points raised.”
Prefectural decree to come
And to launch the ball in the camp or rather in the prefect’s office which must soon take an order followed, at the end of the year, of the decision of the administrative judge. The mayor of Bozouls finally points out: “Destroy 400 m of hedges to allow access and reduce the problem of gas driving does not stand up. There has been a lack of communication from project leaders and a huge disengagement of farmers since.” Without forgetting finally the disengagement of banks on this type of project now, with regard to neighbors on the Aubrac and Montbazens set where some ten million euros should be given to the machine. Where already some 23 M € have been put, including nearly € 7 million in the region, is public money sent to a non -recyclable trash can. Little risk, therefore, that the methanisation unit is born in Bozouls, where, concludes Jean-Luc Calmelly, who is also at the head of the Departmental Agency for Attractiveness and Tourism, “Our town was classified as first position on 1,300 municipalities by a study published by Le Figaro in July 2024 on the theme of attractiveness.”
