The Head of State visited Robert Ménard Tuesday to promote the decarbon hydrogen and the “sovereign” industry.
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Around Emmanuel Macron, Tuesday, November 16 in Beziers (Hérault), the decor is laid. Large centenary industrial buildings made of bricks and steel. In a France that some would like to conjugate to the past where, formerly, were made wagons, chergets and post-war tanks, will become the industry of tomorrow. The one that will allow the country to produce hydrogen on its soil. A raging industry so, but also “decarbonate”, “sovereign” and futuristic, promises the head of state.
It is therefore in Béziers, a medium hosting city jostled by the industrial and technological revolutions, acquired on the far right since the election of Robert Ménard in 2014, that the head of state unfolded this narrative of a France “Resistant” and “Conquerive”, able to adapt to the challenges of the XXI e century. A France which seems the inverted mirror of the bitter and nostalgic country described by the chant of the Eric Zemmour decline, a nationalist candidate before the presidential election of April 2022. A France to the antipodes, too, of the decreasing theories defended by some of the ecologists for Ensuring, they say, the survival of the planet.
At the heart of the chief of state’s argument is the company GENVIA. At the origin of a pilot plant for high temperature electrolyser production, which is part of the national hydrogen sector, the company is, in the eyes of the head of state, “a nugget” capable of transforming the landscape French industry “. What to give it a public support of 200 million euros granted within the framework of the additional 1.9 billion credits announced on Tuesday to support the hydrogen sector. And coming in addition to the 7 billion already registered in the stimulus plan.
It does not matter if the opposition has been the President of the Republic for several weeks to dispel the public money, the stakes are “historic”, defends Emmanuel Macron. Genvia symbolizes in the eyes of the head of state at the same time the country’s ability to take risks, betting on a technology that is not yet mature, and its ability to evolve. Most of the employees of this company are former employees of the parapetroleum sector converted to the needs of this new industry, which could eventually decarbonize most of the French industry.
Chest of Ménard to Macron
“What I describe there is not a dream, these are projects and you are doing them,” said the head of state, Tuesday, promising to make the country a great industrial nation . “There is never inevitable (…), we never respond to the difficulties of time by having the nostalgia of a past that is no longer but redoubling with ability to resist,” he insisted, Registering, with reference to Gaulle or Pompidou, his action in the continuity of “those who preceded us and knew how to give us a nation with this industrial force that allowed us to hold so long”.
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