people who have taken a walk along the river Ill in Strasbourg must have been quite a surprise on Saturday 4 July. Because the water had taken on a hue much more green than usual. Behind this action are the activists of Extinction Rebellion, reveal France 3 and France Bleu. “We put the fluorescein in the water, a product that is completely harmless to the environment. It is commonly used in caving or in ophthalmology,” said one of the activists in France 3.
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In doing so, the environmental movement wants to warn “on the project of landfill of toxic waste (arsenic, mercury, etc) at Stocamine in the Haut-Rhin, that threatens the largest water table in Europe and the drinking water supply of 6 to 7 million people,” he explains on his page Facebook. “If the corridors of the mines are collapsing, the container may be damaged and thus contaminate the water. It requires the elimination total of waste”, has hammered out a militant from France Blue.
⚡️ Action @XR_Strasbourg
We, #ExtinctionRebellion #Strasbourg require reductions of total waste that can be processed and stored elsewhere, in a place where they do not constitute a direct threat to the survival of millions of living beings.
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— Extinction Rebellion France ���� (@xrFrance) July 4, 2020
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An event had already gathered about 500 people last November in Wittelsheim, where 42 000 tonnes of toxic waste are buried 500 metres deep in a former potash mine on the site of Stocamine since 2002, reported France 3. The extraction of the waste had been mentioned by the authorities, who had come to walk-back on this topic in February 2019 “given the stakes, of the balance of risks and the investment of significant technical need in a destocking, additional in good conditions”, had explained the prefect of the Haut-Rhin. Extinction Rebellion has widely publicized its action on the social networks and promised more of the same in the future as long as the situation will not.
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