Open letter : Do not weaken legislation for the protection of aquatic environments

The new law concerning “the acceleration of the production of renewable energies” has seen the appearance in the Senate of amendments in favour of the development of micro-hydroelectricity to the detriment of water resources, biodiversity and, above all, the general interest. They were not in the project initially submitted. Fortunately, the Assembly did not retain these proposals and focused on large hydroelectricity under concession. Nevertheless, in order to prevent these anachronistic amendments from coming back during the final drafting of the texts and in the future, we wished to alert the members of parliament in a letter to the dangers and the truncated, even misleading, arguments propagated on the subject of small hydroelectricity. Read the letter (in french)