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Annecy 2018: the Games moved to the Greens ...

Until February 12, Glacenews advantage of the visit members of inspection IOC devoted to sites in Haute-Savoie to discuss the candidacy of Annecy from a different angle each day. Today, leapt from environmentalists.

Since Tuesday and until 12 February, 11 members of the Evaluation Commission of the International Olympic Committee inspect the sites proposed by the application Haute-Savoie. A milestone in the race to get the Games.

Like the Munich project, the Annecy has angered environmentalists who denounce the environmental impacts. A grain of sand in the powder and government actors carry the candidate who embarrasses more than one, at the time of the visit.

Three associations - France Nature Environment , Federation Rhone-Alpes Conservation and International Commission for the Protection of the Alps - do not argue for cancellation of the candidature of Haute-Savoie.

They claim just a real awareness of environmental impacts in the project so that it be amended to meet the challenges of sustainable development facing it.

According to the three associations, the current project would impact :

• on farmland in the valley and the plain of Mont Blanc where must build the Olympic ice ,
• on resources water on the shelf Semnoz
• on fragile natural areas, such the Aravis between La Clusaz and Grand Bornand.

According to conservationists, these recommendations have yet been heard by the project leaders Annecy 2018. Today, at the time of inspection, the associations want a strong proactive policy of State for Sustainable Development on this issue.

radical position in Germany

the other side of the Rhine is a true showdown that took place between farmers and the Bavarian government of Angela Merkel .

Since the summer, the German Chancellor is faced with fierce resistance of 59 farmers and landowners Garmisch-Partenkirchen , world famous ski resort and restraint in the application of Bavaria. This group of diehards opposed to the transformation of their grazing plains concrete.

Although the German government wants to reassure the negotiations with the 59 opponents remained fruitless until now. We have two weeks to Angela Merkel to agree ...

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