What color do you want for the PIP?
Understanding the 'Pilot Industrial Phase' of the nuclear industry waste disposal project in Bure.
This Wednesday, November 13, the Andra agency revealed the results of a 'consultation' of which it has the secret: who, in the population, even local, was informed and invited to participate? And discuss what: burying, brilliant idea of the century or monstrous bet on the future? You are not there. Here, the State and others have implemented a perfidious so-called funnel strategy: initially, here in the Bure region, they evoke a project, but it is very vague and moreover with other candidates in the ranks. You are placed, without your knowledge, on the edge of the treacherous instrument and then, as the project progresses, you slide to find yourself at the bottom of the cone. There, the vague project ends, the gaping hole of landfilling opens via an industrial pilot phase. We knew the tactic of the gear, oh so much more perverse there, with no possibility of return once pushed into the hopper with, here in Bure-istan, a sliding facilitated and accelerated by a thick layer of financial vaseline.
But… let's come back to last November 13, which experienced one of those rare moments when the seriousness of the subject fades in front of a comical brilliance. There, it was by an enthusiast who, in the meager audience, took the microphone and declared his love for Bure's project. An unrestrained passion to the point that, in its e-edition of November 15, 'Jhm daily' will report: “we were able to attend a plea”; this one enameled with a stupefying: “with cigeo, we have a golden jewel”!
Amazing, in fact, because in view of the heavy controversies that the so-called cigeo arouses, and which accumulate over time, would we not rather be dealing with an artificial jewel, shiny on the surface and all fake? under its thin cosmetic veneer?
Staggering, even more, by the remark which concluded the intervention of our adulator: “We have to trust our engineers and it will work”. You have to be seriously lacking in knowledge of the subject not to know that, despite armies of engineers, not only has the construction site of its jewel cigéo already seen two deaths but also that all the poison burial sites ( nuclear, chemical) across the planet disappeared (fire, flood), and not after 100,000 years of guaranteed safety but after only a very small handful of years: in the United States with the Wipp, more next to us in Germany in Asse (well, we find our agency Andra there), even at home, in Alsace with Stocamine…
The problem, a big problem, is that the author of the pearls “with cigeo, we have a golden jewel” and “We have to trust our engineers and it will work”, demonstrating a profound ignorance of the matter (or worse), is not Mr. Everyman, is not not an average citizen. No, he's a… an elected official. More precisely an elected official from the northern Haute-Marne conurbation, where Bure-Saudron is located). He is even an elected official with responsibilities since he was appointed vice-president of the agglomeration!
And this raises questions about these elected officials who, solemnly, swear to stand for election to serve their fellow citizens. If this were the case, how can we explain that they base their decisions, and therefore the governance of our present and future, on “trust” in this or that (scientists, professional body, political party, various organizations, or pressure group various) while society expects its elected officials to overcome influences, direct or sneaky, if only to get out of the slump in which it has been plunged and currently finds itself. Thoughtful, efficient, ethical decisions – finally – and for the real benefit of the country and its inhabitants…
As a moral:
Curious, these officials, here Mr Novac elected and not the least, with the shortest view. Ours sees Cigeo as a golden jewel, ignoring past lessons. Right here, in the north of Haut-Marne, the village of Blécourt experienced a real gold rush in the 19th century. If ! It's who can find the biggest nugget. Until a chemist brings out his instruments and reagents. Ah, for sure it shone, as much as the “jewel” of Bure, it was golden beyond belief but the nuggets turned out to be common pyrites, aptly named “fool's gold”. However, clearly, golden mirrors still attract larks…
M M
of the Reflection Group on the ETHICAL issues posed by the burial of radioactive waste
