Question 4524 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Tematai Le Gayic draws the attention of the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion to the decontamination of military lands and sites in Polynesia. A contract for the revitalization of defense sites (CRSD) was signed in Polynesia on February 22, 2016 and aims to carry out shared development projects in order to create activity in Tahiti; the State then returned 21 hectares of military land to communes of Arue, Faa'a, Mahina, Papeete, Pirae and Taiarapu-Est. On July 12, 2022, an amendment amended the CRSD, recording the commitment of the President of the Republic during his July 2021 speech in Papeete in which he declared that the State would bear the exceptional costs of decontaminating military sites and that the CRSD would be extended. In fact, this amendment was necessary because the totality of the credits, representing more than three billion Pacific francs, initially planned by the CRSD, was consumed by the decontamination, deconstruction and asbestos removal operations of military infrastructures. Of these three billion Pacific francs, more than 985 million Pacific francs come from the municipalities concerned and the community of Polynesia, which also bore the costs linked to the rehabilitation of the military sites which were allocated to them. retroceded. The amendment of July 12, 2022 provides for a final extension of the CRSD for two years. The MP asks the Minister if, in the event that at the end of this two-year period the decontamination objectives have not been achieved, the State will grant new credits to the municipalities in order to return the land to the state in which it was before the installation of military infrastructure. Polynesian history has proven that a A two-year deadline to clean up pollution and “return an atoll to a state of nature” was utopian. Indeed, the nuclear sites of Moruroa and Fangataufa constitute a notorious precedent of unfinished decontamination. More than twenty-six years after the cessation of nuclear tests in Polynesia, the sites which were the scene of them still retain the stigma, certainly inapparent, but very present. The infrastructure dismantling company logistics cannot hide the plutonium buried in the Moruroa lagoon. To prevent history from repeating itself, he asks it to produce a timetable indicating the stages of decontamination of the military lands of Arue, Faa'a, Mahina, Papeete, Pirae and Taiarapu-Est, with which the State will comply.

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