how state-authorized oil drilling threatens the water table that supplies Paris – Libération

The government has discreetly given the green light to the extension of an oil site in the Lunain valley, the implementation of which would threaten a water table which supplies 180,000 Ile-de-France residents with drinking water. Concerned, the Eau de Paris public authority contests the substance and form of the decision before the administrative court.

The two authorizations fell within a month. Alone symbolizing the triumph of black gold despite environmental risks. But also all the ambiguity of the State vis-à-vis fossil fuels. The story of these two authorizations, which went under the radar, takes place in Seine-et-Marne, in the Lunain valley, approximately 5 kilometers south of the Fontainebleau forest. It concerns the company Bridge Energies, a small oil company which has held the Nonville concession for fifteen years.

Like the Canadian group Vermilion in Teste-de-Buch (Gironde), the company, which today operates three wells, intends to continue the development of its activity, as authorized by the Hulot law (the judgment of hydrocarbon extraction in France is only set for the end of 2039). While the media and controversial project of the com