French horse breeders voice fears over landfill
French Equus caballus breeders who oppose a landfill site inwards a picturesque share of Normandy are calling for international back upward inwards their bid to possess got it closed.
Opponents are calling for international backing for their elbow grease equally the World Equestrian Games possess got centre-stage inwards the region.
Those opposing the dump allege it puts the breeding lands as well as breeding activities some the Haras du Pin at risk.
They are hoping, amongst the Games beingness held inwards their region, to harness international back upward for their cause.
The landfill at Nonant-le-Pin opened inwards Oct terminal twelvemonth as well as has been the dependent area of a peaceful citizen’s blockade at its entrance since.
It is merely 5km from the historical site of the Haras du Pin
Opponents claim the landfill puts the Normandy share at direct a opportunity of receiving industrial waste matter from all over Europe as well as peradventure farther afield.
The landfill, past times society GDE, could received upward to 150 000 tonnes of waste matter a year, or 2.5 1000000 tonnes over its estimated 17-year life.
Opponents fearfulness pollution from the site.
“The futurity of our breeding activities depends on our active as well as continuous mobilisation against this project,” the breeders said inwards a statement.
They said the International Federation of Thoroughbred Breeders, which met inwards Republic of Chile terminal March, classified the lands surrounding the Haras du Pin equally a protected share for the breeding as well as raising of horses.
The breeders fighting that in that place is “total incompatibility” betwixt the landfill as well as the many surrounding Equus caballus farms.
“These lands harbour some of France’s nigh beautiful as well as famed stud farms, as well as one-half of the country’s winning horses inwards races as well as equestrian sports are raised here,” they said.
Spread over fifteen foursquare kilometres, 165 farms are recorded, breeding thoroughbreds, trotters as well as sport horses.
They tell their blockade of the entrance, which began on Oct 24, volition exclusively come upward to an cease when their rights to protect the reason possess got been re-established as well as responsibilities possess got been clarified.
Those opposing the landfill possess got a Facebook page. Their website is here.
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