And four. The deputy for Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) Julien Bayou and representatives of the Écologie pour Le Havre association and EELV Normandie announced on Tuesday the filing of a new legal action against the project for a floating LNG terminal in Le Havre carried by TotalEnergies.
Julien Bayou and the association France Nature Environnement (FNE) had already filed three appeals against this project, intended to create a new gas entry point in France in the context of increased tensions on energy since the start of the war. in Ukraine. These three requests were rejected on July 13 by the administrative court of Rouen.
excess of power
This new request, which environmental activists say they filed on Tuesday, is an appeal for excess of power coupled with an interim suspension. “As it is in summary proceedings, we can hope for a hearing within two or even three weeks (…) with a decision within four to six weeks in total”, said Julien Bayou during a press conference. The Green MP qualifies the LNG terminal project as “deleterious for safety and environmental issues” and considers that it has become useless.
In July, the administrative court of Rouen had considered that such an installation was “possible when it is necessary to increase the national capacities of treatment of liquefied natural gas in order to ensure the security of supply”. But for Julien Bayou, if “at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, we were very afraid for the Russian gas suspensions, today the gas stocks are full, we are 90% at European level and 86% in France” . “There is no reason to make this gift of” license to pollute “To Total”, he estimated.