In Cordemais, workers struggle for the ecological transition of their coal-fired power plant

In Loire-Atlantique, the workers of one of the last two coal-fired power plants in the country have been carrying a project to decarbonize the site for nine years. But EDF refuses the green transition...

This September 27, 2024 will remain engraved in the memory of the agents of the EDF thermal power plant in Cordetais. Three days after the announcement of the abandonment of the Ecocombust project – supposed to convert the site to biomass – the anger of the CGT explodes. Local officials of the union trigger industrial firecrackers in the corridors of the