If today only a small sign announces that the land on which it is planted will soon be occupied by a company, the site has a whole new dimension … On this site of more than twenty hectares, the Cargo group is considering construction of a huge warehouse (La Dépêche, April 28). More than 80,000 m2 of storage and office logistics are announced. As a result, Cargo also announces the creation of a hundred jobs, which does not displease the City and its mayor. Thierry Fourcassier sees it as “a great achievement from an economic point of view”. The mayor evokes “a delivery in 2024 with a first tranche of 53,000 m2 of buildings dedicated to a logistics platform of Centrakor, Cogex outillage, Roldan, Promodis, Yliades, C2S …”. And, as if it were necessary to anticipate possible detractors, Thierry Fourcassier also often repeated that this construction would generate “no access for trucks on the Saint-Jory side, all passing through the Avenue de Euro in the industrial zone of Bruguières. “.
FNE standing vent
Not everyone is convinced by this project, however. And in particular France Nature environnement Midi-Pyrénées, which has just submitted a summary to request the suspension of work. For FNE, “the construction of the logistics warehouse threatens forty-six protected species” and, she says, “the environmental authorization issued by the prefect of Haute-Garonne was adopted in defiance of the provisions for the protection of protected species. . It was therefore the subject of a request for annulment before the administrative judge by our association ”. This one considers that “the prefectural decree authorizing this project goes beyond the habitats directive which prohibits the intentional killing of specimens belonging to a list of protected species, as well as the destruction of their European resting or breeding area. “Among the endangered species here, the association has identified” four amphibians and reptiles (calamite toad, punctuated pelodyte, etc.), seven bats and fifty-two birds including the black kite, the flaying shrike, the booted eagle, etc.… Contacted by us, the Prefecture replied that “beforehand, the State services took into account the impact study which analyzed the potential impacts of the project on biodiversity as very low and limited to the construction phase ”. It also adds that, “the period of felling and revegetation would take place between September and as the Environmental Authority on October provides for a notice of March 18, 2021. This last point was also included as a prescription in the authorization. which was given to the Cargo company, which respected it ”.