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Farmers' unions endlessly protest against the importation of palm oil to feed the Total de La Mède biorefinery. According to them the proportion of palm oil in French gasoline has increased sharply in 2017. They denounced Thursday a "double language of the government."
"The figures of incorporation of biofuels 2017 have just been communicated: palm oil incorporated in gasoline has increased by 36% in 2017, "say in a statement the producers of wheat, corn, sugar beet and bioethanol French, who denounce a" explosion of palm oil in the French petrol. "
According to them" palm biofuels have exploded, rising from 0.14% in 2014 to 1.2% in 2017 ", while" the share of French ethanol has remained stable at 5, 7% (in volume in gasoline). "
Three weeks after the blocking of refineries by French farmers, to protest against the commissioning of Total Medal biorefinery, symbol of their fight against the import agricultural products of which palm oil, used from this summer on the site
The government acts "the reverse" of its statements
The signatories of this forum recall that the 2016 amended finance law had set the target of replacing gasoline with biofuels at 7.5% in 2017 compared with 7% previously. "If the objective has been achieved, the increase has mainly benefited biofuels derived from imported palm oil, from countries not applying our standards", denounce the AGPB (wheat producers), the AGPM ( corn producers) and the CGB (beet growers).
The unions rely, to provide these figures, on an annual report of the customs sent directly to the sectors concerned.
According to a report by the NGO Transport et Environnement in 2017 51% of imported palm oil in Europe is used to produce biodiesel, it accounted for 46% in 2015. In France, palm oil exports account for 76% of the biodiesel industry.
Government has recently indicated that it wants to reduce the use of palm oil suspected of causing deforestation; But the exact opposite is happening and the opening of the La Mède plant suggests a potential doubling of the incorporation of these products, "fear unions.
More generally, they argue for an increase the rate of incorporation of biofuels in gasoline to 8.3% from 2019 and gradually up to 15% in 2030.
Fuels criticized by ecologists
New illustration of the paradoxical rally under the same banner of farmers and environmental NGOs in this issue, this forum is published the same day the filing of an appeal against the prefectural decree authorizing the exploitation of the biorefinery of the Mede, by several environmental badociations including Greenpeace, the Friends of the Earth and FNE.
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This share of palm oil in the production of bios or agro-fuels still raises many ecological problems. Thus "palm oil has a negative climate impact three times greater than diesel", reminded Parisian Laura Buffet, head of biofuels at the NGO Transport and Environment.
MEPs voted last January to a vast majority of its abolition in biofuels "after 2020". A decision that prevents palm oil biofuels from being considered as renewable energies by the EU and therefore to be used by the Member States to achieve the European objectives.
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