Friends of the Earth 32 and FNE Occitanie-Pyrénées are calling for a “relevant” global organization of renewable energies in the Gers

During an energy information commission held at the Gers prefecture on November 4, and which brought together nearly 50 participants, Les Amis de la Terre du Gers and FNE Occitanie-Pyrénées requested the development of a real “Gers master plan for renewable energies, in transparency and consultation”.

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The two associations deplore the fact that the “brutality of the Renewable Energy Acceleration law, which has become blatant on our Gers territory, makes it impossible to organize. We cannot ask the Gers to become a producer of renewable energies important while remaining one of the main agricultural departments of the country and participating in its food sovereignty”.

Change of method

Friends of the Earth and FNE Occitanie-Pyrénées therefore recommend a change in method for the future, by “highlighting the inadequacy of the 'run of the water' method followed until now”. “This approach, without a global vision and very reductive, approaches projects one after the other through the sole prism of energy objectives set by the REPOS scenario. The complexity of reconciling objectives of economic development, environmental protection, sobriety, must neither be underestimated nor hidden”, they emphasize.

They therefore call for the establishment of “a real 'pragmatic Gers master plan for renewable energies' which must be developed, consulted widely, then applied. It will make it possible to define a long-term vision for the development of relevant ENRs in the Gers thanks to real citizen participation, the coordination of public policies, consideration by local authorities of the long term, respect for biodiversity and the National Low Carbon Strategy, etc.