Ségolène Royal veto Western Highway Project

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Minister of Ecology Ségolène Royal rejects the proposed highway sixty kilometers from Fontenay-le-Comte in the Vendée in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, the AFP said that the tendering process for the provision does not start.

"I did not pass on the question of technical advisory business," he told AFP, confirming that the offer has already ruled on the daily Sud Ouest and note that this service the green light not required for completion of the project.

The project was given the green light in 2011, the former Prime Minister François Fillon.

He stated this veto has environmental and financial problems brought on the way, the expected cost of € 900 million, of which to take € 137.5 million in the first there.

Highway A831, remembered, must have found through the Marais Poitevin, on the label of the Regional Natural Park in 2014, lost pass in 1996.

"A public inquiry on the date ten years. Should I do all the studies again," he said. "In addition, it is classified as non-priority devices. Government to help finance the infrastructure."

"I appeal to the sense of responsibility," he said of the project with the support of local elected officials, including Dominique Bussereau, the UMP president of the General Council of Charente-Maritime, citing the impact of the project on local finances.

Ms. Royal, the hierarchy of the first projects the two-way train to electrify ie, to improve access to the port of La Rochelle. The solution is also possible to improve the highway by the Marans, the Northern Department.

The socialist president Jacques Auxiette Pays-de-la-Loire, surprised me, for his part, said in a statement to AFP, sent this decision.

"Said Madame king interferes completely improvised and private services, but also local authorities, closely to end this week the project," he said.

"J? Met Michel Sapin exploring options for financing the work of the road that create jobs, which provide start-up activities in the South Vendee is."

According to him, as Mr. Bussereau expressed in Sud Ouest, the actual cost of the project is to evaluate and prevent the Marais Poitevin is considered.

Meanwhile Bruno Retailleau, Senator (UMP) and the President of the General Council of Vendée guilt "Ségolène Royal to lie and ignore the people he draws, as an elected official, the only legitimacy."

Minister for Ecology, condemned the "archetypal political caste (...), say the French," Mr. Retailleau application was received by AFP, calls Manuel Valls, who "can not bear to see his authority and violated." The President of the General Council of Vendée, believes that "this case is a charlatan for more government, but a real ball, going for months."

Chosen "What is at stake is the public interest", so, promises: "If the government does not start school until they are soft (for the road), you can expect in real grave struggles."