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 long-simmering protest movement against a project to build a new airport close to the town of Nantes, in western France, has over recent weeks grown into a major political battle that now threatens a rupture in the already strained relations between the ruling Socialist Party and its Green party allies, the EELV. Thousands of demonstrators – 13,000 according to the police, 40,000 according to the protestors – turned out at the weekend (pictured), supported by the EELV, to re-occupy the zone designated for the construction of Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport in a rural area close to Nantes, and which the largely socialist-led local authorities argue is a key element in the future development of the economy in north-west France. Jade Lindgaard reports.
Just six months after the death in mysterious circumstances of Richard Descoings, head of one of France’s most prestigious higher education institutions, the Paris Institute of Political Studies, whose body was found in a New York hotel, the venerable school has been rocked again, this time by a scathing report from France’s national audit office slamming gross financial mismanagement by Descoings and a group of his senior colleagues who paid themselves a gravy-train existence of massive salary hikes, bonus awards and other perks. Jade Lindgaard reports.
French utility giant Electricité de France has suffered a major setback in its plans to export European Pressurized Reactors to the United States, where the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has rejected its subsidiary’s application for a licence to build and operate an EPR reactor in Maryland. With its flagship EPR plant at Flamanville, northern France, suffering recurrent construction delays and overruning costs, the American debacle is a significant blow for both EDF, with debts of almost 40 billion euros, and for EPRs in general. Meanwhile, development of EDF's two EPR projects in the United Kingdom have become bogged down in a row over the true subsidised cost of the energy they will produce. Jade Lindgaard reports.
Just weeks before a high-profile government conference on the environment, activist group Greenpeace has expressed its dissatisfaction with the stance taken by the new administration on green issues. In an interview with Mediapart, the organisation’s director Jean-François Julliard says he was “astonished” to hear that the prime minister has not ruled out the exploitation of shale gas in France. He also claims the government has so far shown “no strong commitment” on environmental issues as a whole, and says he fears ministers are proving vulnerable to lobbying from the oil industry. Jade Lindgaard reports.
High-speed trains, Spanish casinos, a new stadium in Lyon, a huge underground train station in Stuttgart, property development schemes to repay Greek debt: European environmentalists opposed to such ‘unnecessary top-down large projects’ are mobilising against the environmental impact of the financial crisis. Jade Lindgaard reports.
Following the recent parliamentary elections, President François Hollande and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault named a new government, as required by the country's constitution. Most ministers remained in the same post. But after just weeks in charge of the environment brief, Nicole Bricq was abruptly moved sideways to become trade minister. Some observers suspect she was reshuffled because of her decision to freeze drilling permits for oil giant Shell off French Guiana - a move later reversed by the prime minister. Stéphane Alliès, Lénaïg Bredoux and Jade Lindgaard report.
The French nuclear industry has been ordered to implement urgent safety improvements costing several billion euros after a nationwide stress test of the country's major nuclear sites found they were vulnerable to major natural disasters such as that which struck the Japanese plant at Fukushima last March. "We are not asking for these investments, we are imposing them," said André-Paul Lacoste, head of the French Nuclear Safety Authority, adding that the significant cost of his watchdog's demands could force plant closures. Jade Lindgaard reports.
After tortuous negotiations, France's Green party last weekend finally ratified an electoral pact drawn up with the Socialist Party which centres on a steep reduction in nuclear power production and the development of renewable energy sources. The agreement, which has triggered alarm bells in the French nuclear industry, seals an alliance between both parties for the legislative elections that will immediately follow next year's presidential poll. Jade Lindgaard examines the facts and figures behind the programme to reduce nuclear energy production, and reports on the last-minute political high drama that came close to leaving it stillborn.
Nuclear power plants in France, the most nuclear dependent country in the world, are vulnerable to the catastrophic effects of a major natural disaster such as that which hit the Japanese plant at Fukushima in March. That is the conclusion of a stress-test study of the country's 58-strong reactor fleet carried out by the French radioprotection and nuclear safety institute, the IRSN, presented Thursday by the national nuclear safety agency, the ASN, which warned that "massive investment" is required for the recommended safety upgrades. Jade Lindgaard reports on the findings.
In a country which gets around 75% of its electricity from nuclear power, and billions of euros from exportation of its civil nuclear technology, the call to dump it could appear akin to science fiction. Yet Négawatt, an association of French environmentalist energy specialists, drew a crowd for its recent presentation of a plan for France to pull out of nuclear energy by 2033 while also halving CO2 emissions by 2030 and converting almost entirely to renewables by 2050. The nuclear industry and two ministries sent emissaries, and the plan now looks set to feature in the 2012 presidential election campaign. Jade Lindgaard reports.
The political fallout from Fukushima and the deepening financial crisis appear to have eclipsed concern about climate change, relegating greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous back burner. Bucking the trend are two books just published in France that put carbon and climate issues back into the sun. One argues against our "carbocentric" age and its blinkered technocratic take on the depletion of natural resources at the expense of social equality, while the other likens fossil fuels to 'energy slaves', abused and depleted with disastrous future consequences. Jade Lindgaard reviews two conflicting, compelling and ultimately complimentary works.
Mediapart can exclusively reveal that one of France's largest nuclear power plants, situated at Paluel, overlooking the English Channel in Normandy (photo), has recently been plagued by a series of disturbing incidents including contamination of staff and recurrent leaks of radioactive gas and seepage from cracked fuel rod casings. Mediapart has obtained access to documents and witness accounts that testify to a prevalent atmosphere of fear among workers at the plant which lies 60 miles from the English coastline and where the regularly-activated alarm system had to be re-tuned to lower safety levels. Jade Lindgaard and Michel de Pracontal investigate.
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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.
