Toulouse: the Capitole ice rink, winter controversy
The Christmas market ice rink opens this Friday for one month. She is still opposed to the majority and opposition on their conception of ecology.
In February 2020, in the midst of the municipal campaign, the controversy over the Capitol ice rink was a milestone in the duel to come in the second round between Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR) and Antoine Maurice (EELV). The second, for the Citizen Archipelago list, had fired red balls on “energy-consuming” equipment and on the candidate of “cosmetic and salon ecology”, a “mayor of the past”. With the cap of effective contender at the Capitol, Jean-Luc Moudenc had in turn castigated “a negative ecology, based on constraint and without any real effect on the environment”, opposing him “an ecology and pragmatic”.
The same ice rink is back today. It reopens this Friday with the Christmas market, at the foot of the Capitol. Antoine Maurice, who chairs one of the groups of a fragmented opposition, has not stepped up to the plate by means of a press release. But, requested by us, he defends the same position. “An outdoor ice rink is like leaving a freezer open in the open. This is absurd and the symbol of a policy locked in software from the 80s when the IPCC recalls the urgency to act against climate change. “
On Capitol Hill, we no longer even bother to fuel a political showdown to stick to the facts. First by recalling that the ice rink, with its 11,000 participants in 2018, is a popular success. “It allows people from Toulouse to learn to ski in the friendly and joyful atmosphere of the holidays. Then speaking of technique: the process used “is the least energetic” thanks to “food glycol as cooling liquid”. And the service provider “offsets the carbon impact with photovoltaic panels. “