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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As European farm ministers met earlier this month at a château in France's Loire Valley to reframe EU agricultural policy, a detailed study of European farm aid has revealed a major contradiction right at the heart of that policy; that the most polluting farms actually receive the most cash from subsidies. And amid French farmers' protests against falling prices and shrivelling incomes, the study also showed that in the current economic context, the usual strategy of continually boosting production is no longer an option. Jade Lindgaard reports.
While all of Europe, including France, has been focussed on the shock result of the Brexit vote, a more local referendum campaign has been taking place in western France. On Sunday June 26th nearly a million voters in the Loire-Atlantique département or county were asked for their verdict on plans for a new airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes near Nantes. The referendum itself, whose outcome the government says it will respect and which has been criticised for its many shortcomings, was won by suporters of the scheme. But Mediapart's environment correspondent Jade Lindgaard argues that the issues at stake go beyond the local airport project: and that they affect everyone in France and beyond.
It is one of the largest development projects in the Paris region. The Auchan supermarket chain wants to build a vast shopping complex on farmland near Charles-De-Gaulle airport that will contain not just shops but a leisure park, a ski slope and cultural centres. Its supporters say EuropaCity will bring thousands of job to a poor, deprived area and serve as a blueprint for commerce and society in the 21st century. Opponents doubt the number of jobs it will create, say it will harm the environment, and argue that it is at odds with the commitments made by France and other nations at the COP21 climate summit held in Paris in December. Urban utopia or environmental nightmare? Jade Lindgaard reports.
The protesters who have occupied the proposed site for a new airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes near Nantes in west France have grabbed media attention in recent years. Less well-known are the environmental activists who have set up a similar camp in an ancient forest on the other side of the country in a bid to stop the development of a new Center Parcs holiday centre. As Jade Lindgaard reports, unlike their anti-airport counterparts, the protesters opposing the Center Parcs project are from being universally popular with locals.
At the end of 2015 the giant construction firm, Vinci, who are scheduled to build a new airport near Nantes in the west of France, sought an emergency court order to expel small-scale farmers who live and work on the planned site. The farmers, some of whose families have been on the same land for generations, are refusing to go. On Saturday January 9th opponents of the deeply controversial airport project staged a demonstration in support of the local farming community threatened with expulsion. Jade Lindgaard reports.
Naomi Klein is a Canadian social activist and author and a director of climate activist group 350.org, whose 2014 book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate became her third major international bestseller. Klein has been in Paris throughout the two-week United Nations climate conference COP 21 which began on November 30th, and kept a regular video blog in English published on Mediapart, a project in partnership with US weekly magazine The Nation. In her final contribution (all six blogs are on this same page), she comments on the end of the summit on Saturday, “a mixed day” and an agreement Klein says “does not leave us safe”.
The United Nations international climate summit, COP21, opened at Le Bourget close to Paris on November 30th in unusual circumstances. The host country France is under a state of emergency as it welcomes leaders, negotiators and activists from around the world. As Mediapart's environment correspondent Jade Lindgaard reports, a deal at the summit appears to be within reach, but doubts and questions remain about the real direction of the negotiations.
Following the recent terror attacks, public demonstrations have been banned in Paris. This includes the huge march for the climate planned for Sunday November 29th, on the eve of the opening of the COP 21 climate change conference in the French capital. Some groups have described the ban as an attack on civil liberties. Meanwhile the march organisers, the Coalition Climat 21, have vowed that some form of public demonstration – within the law – will still take place. Jade Lindgaard reports.
A committee of the UN's International Maritime Organization is discussing ways to reduce the sulphur content in marine fuels, a pollutant said to be responsible for up to 50,000 deaths a year in Europe alone. But France's representative on the body is an employee of French oil firm Total - which produces those very same marine fuels. As Jade Lindgaard reports, there is embarrassment in Paris over this apparently flagrant conflict of interest.
The climate conference scheduled for Paris in December is the latest in a long line of bureaucratic gatherings that have so far failed to deliver on promises of fighting climate change. Now 100 prominent world figures have signed a mould-breaking appeal which seeks to bypass the endless discussions and instead calls for a social “uprising” against climate crime just as past campaigners sought to end slavery and apartheid. Jade Lindgaard explains why Mediapart is associating itself with this dramatic appeal.
Roi du bétonnage, le groupe Pierre et Vacances bénéficie d’un soutien financier inédit des pouvoirs publics, à coups de gigantesques niches fiscales, pour une offre de tourisme stéréotypée et déficitaire. C’est aussi un gros émetteur de gaz à effet de serre. Son dernier Center Parcs, à Roybon, est pour l'instant suspendu.
Mediapart has gained access to a report by the French government’s environment and energy agency which concludes that France’s electricity supply, of which 75% is currently produced by nuclear power, could be entirely provided by renewable energies in 2050. Furthermore, the study found that a 100% reliance on renewables is not only materially and technologically feasible, but that it would also cost relatively little more than the electricity supply in which nuclear power plays a key part. The study was due to be made public this month, but its publication has now been inexplicably postponed until after the summer, and after key energy strategy decisions are to be taken by the government. In this report by Christophe Gueugneau and Jade Lindgaard, Mediapart presents the study in its entirety and highlights the key findings.
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Mercredi 12 mars à 18h30 au cinéma Le Roc d'Embrun (Hautes-Alpes), la radio ram05 et Mediapart diffusent la série de podcast-enquête qui a révélé des dysfonctionnements dans le traitement des eaux usées par Veolia. Venez nombreuses et nombreux
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.
