Duplomb Law: for lawyer Marie Bomar, "everything is done to empty the judge's judgment and accentuate the opposition between agriculture and the environment"

Since 2010, the Nature Environnement 17 association has been waging a relentless legal battle in Charente-Maritime and Deux-Sèvres against environmentally destructive mega-basin projects . Its credit includes dozens of cancellations of construction permits.

But this fight risks becoming much more complicated if the Duplomb law is enacted . Interview with Marie Bomar, head of the association's legal unit, on this law with devastating consequences for biodiversity and the sharing of a common good: water.

What will the Duplomb law change regarding mega-basins?

New projects will now be considered as meeting "an imperative reason of major public interest", which will allow them to avoid exemptions when they affect...