The referral to the Constitutional Council suspends the deadline for the promulgation of the law, definitively adopted by Parliament on Tuesday. The sages have one month to decide.
The deputies of the National Rally, then those of the group Les Républicains, seized the Constitutional Council to challenge several measures of the law for the acceleration of renewable energies, they announced Thursday, two days after its adoption in Parliament.
The RN castigates in a press release a “leak forward in favor of intermittent energies” in connection with “the lobbies of wind and solar power”.
In its referral to the Constitutional Council, the far-right group believes that the law creates a “break in equality” between renewable energy producers and other energy companies.
The “nuisances” of wind turbines
Marine Le Pen’s group had scrapped throughout the debates against the bill, attacking the “nuisance” of wind turbines. “It destroys our landscapes”, it “twists the eyes and the brain”, had finally let go of the deputy Pierre Meurin.
The RN aims for a tariff modulation mechanism that could be put in place to support renewable energy projects in areas that are less favorable from a meteorological point of view (article 3 bis B). The group also points to “a guarantee fund intended to compensate for part of the financial losses which would result from a cancellation by the administrative judge of an environmental authorization” (article 5 bis).
RN deputies also attack the recognition of imperative reasons of major public interest (RIIPM) for certain renewable projects (article 4), a measure intended to limit certain disputes. In their eyes, it “constitutes de facto and de jure an unjustified advantage significantly unbalancing the weapons of the trial in favor of the energy operator”.
At the very end of the evening this Thursday, the LR deputies in turn announced to seize the Constitutional Council. Among other criticisms, they also invoke a breach of equality between energy producers, with tariff modulation, as well as a “breach of the right to a fair trial” with article 4 on the imperative reason of overriding public interest .
