Pollution : le maire EELV de Bordeaux adoube le Tour de France
By Nicolas Gosselin
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” The Tour de France allows you to create dreams, to share. After a 13-year eclipse, it is very good news for the people of Bordeaux that Bordeaux once again welcomes a finish from the Grande Boucle,” said Pierre Hurmicduring the municipal council of October 4, 2022, to officially announce the peloton’s passage through the Gironde capital during the2023 editionat the end of the stage on Friday 7 July.
Being able to count on a mayor EELV to play the VRP of the Tour de France, its organizer Christian Prud’homme would have fallen from his chair if he had been told that in 2020. At the time, the mayor of Lyon described the event as “macho and polluting” and in Rennes, elected environmentalists had put pressure on the PS mayor to refuse to welcome the big start of the 2021 edition, again for environmental reasons.
The mayor of Bordeaux refuses the shortcut which would automatically oppose the Greens and the organizing company ASO. “It would be nice if it was an eco-friendly mayor who would bring the Tour back to Bordeaux, he said in an article inActu.fr, before the candidacy of the Gironde town was accepted. It would blow the neck of these stupid urban legends that circulate about elected EELV and who are only clichés. »
Less pollution on the Tour de France
It must be recognized, however, that the Grande Boucle has not always been exemplary on the environmental issue with a carbon footprint estimated at 341,000 tonnes of CO2 in 2013 and nearly 18,000 goodies distributed by the Tour caravan and thrown on the roadsides again in 2019, objects very often made in China and wrapped in non-biodegradable plastic film. But since then, ASO has made great efforts…
“Of course, the Tour de France is not a model of virtue, but neither are we. In a few years, its carbon footprint has been reduced by nearly 40%. I would have liked Bordeaux to be able to do the same, underlined the city councilor. The Tour is engaged in a virtuous trajectory, in particular by using vehicles with hybrid engines. It’s a popular festival, which I consider to be eco-responsible. The wheel is turning for the Great Loop.
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