A Mediapart, j'enquête sur le nucléaire et je suis responsable du pôle Ecologie, après avoir travaillé les années précédentes sur les injustices environnementales, les pollutions industrielles et l'écologie urbaine.
Auparavant, j'ai travaillé aux Inrockuptibles.
J'ai écrit plusieurs livres, dont Paris 2024. Une ville face à la violence olympique (Divergences, 2024), Eloge des mauvaises herbes. Ce que nous devons à la ZAD (Les Liens qui libèrent, 2018), Je crise climatique. La Planète, ma chaudière et moi (La Découverte, 2014), Le Ba-ba du BHL, avec Xavier de la Porte (La Découverte, 2004), et La France Invisible (La Découverte, 2006).
J'ai été membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Mouvements.
J'ai participé à la commission Diversités de Mediapart, qui tente d'oeuvrer contre les discriminations et les mécanismes de domination au sein de l'entreprise. Et j'ai coprésidé la Société des journalistes (SDJ) de Mediapart.
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A shipment of reprocessed uranium from French nuclear power plants has left the Channel port of Dunkirk to be enriched at a specialised Russian industrial plant run by the country’s nuclear energy group Rosatom, before being in part returned to France for further use in civil reactors. The shipment, loaded at the weekend on a Russian-operated, Panama-registered cargo vessel, was described by Greenpeace as a "cargo of shame", and “immoral”, while both French utility giant EDF, which operates the country’s nuclear power plants, and the French economy ministry, declined to comment.
The authorities have announced their intention to appeal after an administrative court ordered the suspension of work on the highly-controversial Toulouse-Castres A69 motorway in south-west France. The court – the first in France to strike down plans for a motorway on environmental grounds - annulled the original permission that had allowed work to start on the planned 33-mile route. Yet though the government has reiterated its determination to forge ahead with this major infrastructure project, none of the economic and social reasons it gives to justify this approach reflect the reality on the ground, argues Jade Lindgaard in this op-ed article.
The first attempt to start up the process of nuclear reaction in the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) at the Flamanville nuclear power plant, situated on France’s Channel Coast close to Jersey and Guernsey, was aborted by an automatic shutdown last week. The process was finally successfully re-engaged four days later, but the failure was just the latest in a catalogue of incidents and delays at the site, now 12 years overdue. For one specialist, the flaws in the design of the reactor, which is the same design as that planned for Hinkley Point in England, are such that it ‘will never function properly’. Jade Lindgaard reports.
Several athletes who took part in swimming events in the River Seine during the Summer Olympics in Paris later fell ill with intestinal complaints, the latest among them being Irish swimmer Daniel Wiffen, who as a result missed Sunday’s closing ceremony where he was to be a flag bearer for Ireland. While no absolute proof indicates the cases of illness were due to the pollution in the river, the incidents will be of concern for those athletes taking part in the Summer Paralympics in Paris in two weeks time. Mediapart gained access to the results of the daily tests of the water which show that over a ten-day period during the Games, the amount of E. coli and intestinal Enterococcus bacteria in the water surpassed recommended levels. Jade Lindgaard, Pascale Pascariello and Antton Rouget report.
Cross-country skier Stéphane Passeron, a former member of the French team and a Paralympic coach at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, argues that major sporting and cultural events are no longer compatible with the current climate crisis. As a campaign group asks for France's bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics to be scrapped, the veteran skier goes further and calls for an end to all major sporting events, such as the Olympics, the Tour de France and the football World Cup. Instead, argues Stéphane Passeron, we need to “make sport local”. Interview by Jade Lindgaard.
For the first time, three major French banks and a large insurance group face a criminal complaint for alleged money laundering linked to the deforestation of the Amazon. The complaint has been deposed against banks BNP Paribas, BPCE and Crédit Agricole and insurance firm Axa. The Paris-based advocacy and litigation association behind the move, Sherpa, say that these financial institutions “cannot have been unaware that they were financing illegal activities”. Jade Lindgaard reports on this ground-breaking action.
In the northern suburbs of Paris the urban renovation of a rundown neighbourhood has been put under extra pressure by the construction of the nearby Olympic Village for the 2024 Games. Nearly 300 households, including families with children and the elderly, have to leave their high-rise social housing as soon as possible. And as Jade Lindgaard reports, to accelerate the process some of the offers of alternative housing for the unhappy tenants have not complied with the normal rules.
Between June and August 2022 France saw “excess deaths that were in all probability due in part to the heatwave”. That is the verdict of the country's official statistics agency INSEE. If one compares the 2022 mortality figures with the same period in 2019, an additional 11,124 people lost their lives this summer. These initial estimates of the impact of this year's heat inevitably revive memories of the tragic heatwave of 2003, which led to the deaths of many thousands of people. Donatien Huet and Jade Lindgaard report.
A detailed “social autopsy” by sociologist Eric Klinenberg examined the heatwave that killed more than 700 people in the American city during one week in July 1995. According to the American academic it was the existence of strong social ties and urban vibrancy that helped stop more people from dying, and not free phone helplines such as the French authorities are issuing to help people in the heatwave currently suffocating France and other parts of Europe. Mediapart's environment correspondent Jade Lindgaard reports on the lessons for the rest of the world from Chicago's devastating heatwave 27 years ago.
Around the world, tens of thousands of chemicals are present in the environment, in soil, the air and in water, and little is known about their individual consequences on human health nor how to measure them. Lifelong exposure to environmental pollution and the non-genetic causation of diseases this may have is the focus of a relatively recent and pioneering field of inter-disciplinary scientific research, and which encompasses social and dietary factors, a notion called the ‘exposome’. In this interview with Mediapart’s Jade Lindgaard, epidemiologist Paolo Vineis, one of Europe’s leading specialists on the subject, explains the umbrella approach of ‘exposomics’.
Widely acclaimed French-Swiss cinema director Jean-Luc Godard, regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation, and a major figure of France’s New Wave cinema movement, died in Switzerland on Tuesday in an assisted suicide at the age of 91. Late last year he gave a rare interview to Mediapart’s Ludovic Lamant and Jade Lindgaard, who travelled to meet him at his home in Switzerland, when nothing went quite as had been planned, and which we republish here.
A massive leak of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, occurred earlier this month at the Tricastin nuclear power plant, one of the oldest in France, when subsequent radiation levels recorded in groundwater below it reached 28,900 becquerels per litre. Both the plant’s operator, EDF, and the French nuclear safety watchdog, the ASN, insist that the spill has been contained. But, as Jade Lindgaard reports, despite that claim it appears inevitable that that the radioactive effluent will pollute the local environment.
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Redoutable spécialiste des grands projets, elle contestait avec vigueur l’utilité des énormes infrastructure de transport, et en particulier du Grand Paris Express. Personnalité charismatique et courageuse, elle se battait depuis des décennies contre de graves problèmes de santé pour que son corps continue à respirer.
Du 29 juin au 1er juillet, plusieurs centaines de personnes ont successivement occupé et bloqué un terminal cimentier, trois centrales à béton et un dépôt de sable et granulats de Lafarge-Holcim, ainsi qu’une usine de béton d’Eqiom. Des dégradations y ont été volontairement commises pour empêcher le redémarrage des machines.
La crise du coronavirus révèle à quel point nos systèmes de défense sociaux sont défaillants : pas assez de moyens dans les hôpitaux, pas assez de moyens dans les écoles, pas assez de production locale pour s'affranchir des flux de la mondialisation. Et pas assez de culture démocratique.
