The opposition to the Notre-Dame-des Landes airport scheme is landing in Angers

The project of a new airport located at Notre-Dame-des-Landes which is due to replace the Nantes-Atlantique airport starts to ignite protests in Angers. A few days ago, while a meeting of the council of Angers Loire Métropole was almost finished, a representative, member of an ecologic party, demanded the end of violences against the adversaries of the scheme. The president of the authority, Jean-Claude Antonini, refused to accept a new debate on that issue beause it had been already discussed. More recently, several communities hostile to the project have made public their decision to support the Notre-Dame-des-Land opponents.

Some leftist and ecologic formations have constituted a committee which, from November 12, will gather daily on Ralliement square from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm in order to explain to Angers inhabitants the reasons of their opposition to the Notre-Dame-des-Landes project. It has announced that he will take part to a new demonstration on the site of the future airport. For that purpose, it will organize a transport to the scene on November 17 (at 9 am, on Kennedy square).

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On its side, Alm has decided to support the project because it considers that the equipment will better connect Angers to foreign countries. That airport should to be linked to Angers by rail and road speedways. According to the opponents to the project, that one is conflicting with the Grenelle de l'Environnement (a series of political meetings which listed numerous commitments in the ecology field and which was endorsed by Angers city) while others regional airport are already under used.