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PARIS (Reuters) – Several environmental groups have announced that they have lodged an appeal against the prefectorial authorization of Total's refinery at La Mède (Bouches-du-Rhône) on Thursday. of palm oil is challenged by Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace France, France Nature Environment, FNE Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, FNE 13 and the League of Protection of Birds PACA, which denounce its impact on the environment , in particular on deforestation, biodiversity and global warming
Total received last May the authorization to exploit its future bio-refinery of La Mède and to use up to 450,000 tons of vegetable oil gross per year – palm oil, but also rapeseed, sunflower, soya, maize, as well as new carinata plants.
The site will also treat 30 to 40% of animal fats, edible oils used and oil residuals (from waste and the paper industry), this share having a vocation according to the group to increase over the years depending on the availability of these alternative resources.
Faced with the challenge, which also provoked in June Total refineries blockages by agricultural unions (FNSEA and Young Farmers), the oil group also committed to limit the supply of crude palm oil to a volume less than 50% of the volumes of raw materials that will be processed on the site, at most 300,000 tons per year.
"Total managed to smoke the government with a truncated environmental impact study and the promise of controversial certifications," said in a joint statement Sylvain Angerand, representing the Friends of the Earth.
"Far from reducing greenhouse gas emissions, this project will, on the contrary, accelerate deforestation and hence the changes in climate change. limatiques. This reality can not be ignored by the administrative judge, "he adds.
The environmental badociations ask the administrative justice to cancel the prefectural decree authorizing the exploitation of the site of La Mède and the reopening discussions "for a fair and sustainable conversion of this refinery"
(Jean-Michel Belot, edited by Benjamin Mallet)
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