Question 17754 — environment

Summary

Mr. Maxime Laisney draws the attention of the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion regarding the opening of new oil drilling in the country, respect for France's climate commitments and the right to live in an environment that respects health. We learn that the previous government gave its agreement to the extension of the concession for liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon mines, known as “ Nonville concession” (Seine-et-Marne), to the company Bridge Energies SAS. This extension is substantial and extends the perimeter to an area five times larger than before, encompassing several Natura 2000 biodiversity preservation sites and drinking water collection points of the public establishment Eau de Paris. An extension which seems to the MP to be contrary to the country's commitments as well as to several provisions of constitutional nature. First, this extension threatens the water table at the heart of the groundwater catchment supply area and thus the drinking water supply and the health of 180,000 Ile-de-France residents. In this way, this authorization undermines the Constitution in article 1 of the Environmental Charter which provides that “everyone has the right to live in a balanced environment that respects health. ". Moreover, the authorization poses serious and immediate risks to ecosystems and in this way the Government could become complicit in ecocide. Then, with this authorization, the Government tramples on its climate declarations and commitments. Indeed, Ms. Élisabeth Borne declared, when she took office in 2022 before the National Assembly, that France would become “the first major ecological nation to move away from energy fossils”. In addition, France is a signatory to the Paris Agreement, which plans to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 compared to 2010 and to achieve the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, i.e. carbon neutrality. Several weeks ago, the Government already gave up on putting on the agenda an energy-climate programming law aimed at setting a course in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and production and consumption of carbon-free energy. Today, it authorizes a new capacity for CO2 emissions while there is an urgent need to move away from fossil fuels, as IPCC experts regularly remind us. For all these reasons, the MP is firmly opposed to the project. Given the significant health and ecological risks, France's climate commitments, the Environmental Charter with constitutional value and precisely by virtue of the right to live in a balanced environment respectful of health (article 1) and the precautionary principle (article 5), the MP requests the immediate withdrawal of this authorization. More broadly, he asks what the Government intends to do to put an end to the exceptions of the “Hulot” law to stop oil and gas drilling as quickly as possible on the French territory, in accordance with government promises.

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