Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker JJJJound returns with a new collaboration partnering this time with French label Plasticana to revisit the eco-conscious Gardana clog the Montreal-based studio applies its signature approach here as well Plasticana originally designed the Gardana clog using recycled hemp-based plastic The material gives the shoe its soft sepia hue derived entirely from the sugar content naturally present in hemp the clog offers a loose fit and a lightweight build Plasticana markets the design as vegan and fully recyclable aligning with the brand’s interest in low-impact production and color of the original clog completely intact The only visible change arrives in the form of a small JJJJound logo placed on the back heel It’s a move in line with the studio’s known design restraint but one that hasn’t landed well with everyone Social media responded quickly and without restraint Some followers interpreted the release as an attempt at humor or satire Reactions ranged from disbelief to skepticism with many questioning the intent behind the collaboration Some dismissed the release entirely with short remarks or sarcasm The backlash reveals a growing expectation among JJJJound’s audience for more thoughtful design input particularly in a space where limited-edition collaborations usually generate strong demand JJJJound remains consistent in its design language The studio has built a following by avoiding over-explained concepts and resisting the pull of trends offering a pared-down product that puts material and form before decoration or reinterpretation The original Gardana clog currently retails online for $68 USD though no official price has been confirmed for the JJJJound version Fans can expect the shoe to arrive as part of the studio’s Spring Summer 2025 collection in the coming weeks DSCENE is curated as a daily art, design, fashion & lifestyle destination. 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UNIL is a leading international teaching and research institution with over 5,000 employees and 17,000 students split between its Dorigny campus Department of Energy and Environmental Materials Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science Issue: Improve the quality of Alteo’s effluents before they are discharged into the sea in Calanques national marine park bringing the site into line with the strictest standards Goal: Provide a sustainable solution for a long-standing industrial company in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region threatened with closure by government order Veolia’s response: Installation of an on-site biological treatment unit provides a rapid response allowing Alteo to prove it can use forward-looking solutions to maintain its presence in the region the ecological balance of waters in the Calanques marine park was threatened by discharges of so-called red sludge This sludge is bauxite residue from Alteo’s alumina plant in Gardanne and the company has since ceased this practice After coming under renewed pressure surrounding the quality of its industrial water discharges which came up with a biological treatment unit that uses bacteria to break down suspended organic matter The goal was clear: bring the quality of effluent discharges up to standard within a very short timeframe  “We were facing the very real threat of a government order that would have put a complete stop to our activity,” recalls Frédéric Ramé It was vital to find a specialist water treatment partner able to implement a solution that had never previously been used in this industry.  Anne-Laure Galmel, Project Manager for the Mediterranean region at Veolia France Water, spent months working on a discharge treatment process that would ensure industrial effluents were sufficiently clean and oxygenated to be discharged at all times of year The treatment unit we designed runs on biomass This stage is followed by two additional treatments: a physicochemical treatment for decantation and a treatment to remove any matter remaining in suspension on the filters.  Farid Bentoumi's second release after his comedy Good Luck Algeria. The French-Algerian director has made the Official Selection for the first time at Cannes 2020 with his film Rouge (Red Soil) An environmental thriller inspired by various true stories like that of a production plant in Gardanne that was dumping hazardous waste in the Mediterranean Sea the film takes inspiration from this "red mud" health scandal and shines a light on the current environmental/economic dilemma Nour has just been hired as a nurse at the chemical plant where her dad a worker's union representative and loyal employee In the midst of the factory's health inspection a journalist is carrying out an investigation on waste management These two young women discover little by little that the factory Rouge (Red Soil) possesses a quality usually seen in American cinema taking on a political or social issue and embodying these ideas through fiction With a solid script and masterful direction it brings up a debate that has been made even more relevant by the COVID crisis: health or work "the end of the month or the end of the world" “I don’t have the perfect solution (…) We have simply opened up a debate that will occupy us for the next twenty or thirty years and that will have a deep impact on our society and way of life.” By showing the contrast between Nour, who sides with health and the environment, and her father, a union member who fears unemployment more than cancer, Rouge (Red Soil) highlights the complexity of this debate and invites viewers to seriously consider the questions that come up on screen alongside its cast; Zita Hanrot Céline Sallette and Olivier Gourmet Find all the news of the Festival de Cannes Getty Images; Collage: Gabe ConteSave this storySaveSave this storySaveAll products featured on GQ are independently selected by our editors we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links they are brown and speckled like a farm-raised chicken’s egg my editor Yang-Yi Goh reported back: “The Plasticanas are Plasticaning today.” are a relatively affordable shoe for hanging around “We’ve got chefs from local restaurants that come in a lot we’ve got the people who want to go upstate and need something that’s a no-brainer to throw on,” says Salter House co-owner Carson Salter who first encountered the Plasticana style at the Maison & Objet design trade show in Paris in 2013 where he thought they looked “looked perfectly casual and cool.” This was pre-Salter House so he didn’t yet have any way of ordering them wholesale He pitched them to several retailers like Westerlind and Assembly New York but “nobody bit.” Once he and his wife Sandeep opened their own store in 2018 A couple years later, Salter’s old schoolmate from growing up in Atlanta, Emily Adams Bode Aujla sent the clogs down her Fall 2020 runway show which put them on the radar of New York’s fashion crowd in addition to similar Plasticana models: a Wellies-style rainboot as do a range of e-retailers including Gardenheir and Anthopologie “Even though I had a lot of trouble getting [the clogs] into shops before we were carrying it whose business is the largest Plasticana importer in the States “I want to take a little bit of credit that I think we helped to frame them as something that wasn’t just a pure granola product.” “Often when you have tourists or people whose parents are [visiting the city] and they see them in the store or those who are “maybe a little more forward-thinking Bode sent Plasticanas down the runway in early 2020 The actor Christopher Abbott wore them (with crutches and all) in late 2023 The unisex clogs tick most boxes on the post-pandemic style checklist: practical But the clogs are polarizing because they’re weird looking they are made of mottled brown rubber; while the manufacturer does make them in another color a deep bottle green called “Vert,” Salter says the additional dye makes the material less sustainable and so Salter House chooses not to carry them “So often with sustainable materials,” he says “you have some messy evidence of the earth that it came from…whether it’s seeded bread or it’s a flax linen.” As a result the clogs are a bit inconsistent—the sizing can be wonky created from the melting of the hemp’s sugar molecules varies from pair to pair—so they still feel homespun After they appeared on the Bode runway, GQ’s own commerce writer Gerald Ortiz recommended the Plasticanas back in 2021 once he’d trekked over an hour from Ridgewood Queens to Brooklyn Heights to purchase a pair at Salter House The store still had limited sizing and stock back then “I had seen that they would get a restock and sell out really fast which made me want them even more,” Ortiz says He liked the low-cut shape as a sleeker alternative to his Birkenstock Bostons means he wears his own Gardanas less frequently these days “I am one of those fickle guys that is like if I see something enough I will not want to wear it anymore,” he admits “I still think it’s a really handsome shoe GQ Recommends soothsayer Gerald Ortiz modeling the Plasticana clogs in 2021 they’ve become a hit among New York’s community of hip chefs a sous chef at the buzzy Ridgewood restaurant Rolo’s—and Nestled among the overpopulated shoe rack by our apartment’s front door I noticed Ghantous owns not one but three pairs of Plasticanas after enough stray coals from working the kitchen’s wood-fired oven had melted holes through the soles.) Ghantous first saw a stranger wearing them a few years ago “somewhere around the Bedford L stop on a Saturday morning when “I liked them so much that I spent probably upwards of three hours on eBay just looking up ‘gardening shoes’ to try to find them.” For the same reasons they’re practical on a rainy day—nonslip and waterproof—they’re useful for restaurant workers. As of late, most of the back- and front-of-house staff at Rolo’s are decked out in Plasticanas. I’m half-expecting the clogs to show up on Ayo Edebiri’s stylish chef de cuisine character Sydney Adamu in the upcoming third season of The Bear and Ghantous spotted a couple pairs on a recent trip to London Wearing a gardening shoe around New York City (or anywhere else not primarily covered in soil) offers a bit of provincial fantasy even if their waterproofness can come in handy given how frequently dips in the sidewalks can invite pools of precarious liquids “Personally, I know that wearing them poses the question of what socks or if socks more than most shoes do,” says Salter, “in the same way that the idea of adding a Birkenstock with socks causes people a total crisis.” For his part, he prefers his Plasticanas with added insoles and nice wool socks. 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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information High voltage electricity transmission towers at the coal-fired Provence Power Station in Gardanne 2024 at 5:00 PM ESTBookmarkSaveLock This article is for subscribers only.France will aim to reduce the share of fossil fuels in its energy consumption mix to 40% from more than 60% by 2035 Energy Transition Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said in an interview with La Tribune Dimanche The goal is to add 13 gigawatts of capacity starting in 2026 outlining a planned bill on French energy sovereignty While the draft won’t specify a preferred technology France is expected to build more nuclear reactors Frey Lindsay A worker tends to herbs growing in the nursery of the Graines de Soleil farming complex in Châteauneuf-les-Martigues nonprofit urban farms and volunteer grocery stores help poorer families cope with the cost-of-living crisis MARSEILLE - On a sunny winter's morning, Etienne Griffaton walked around the Graines De Soleil urban farming project people have to do a lot of different things," said Griffaton "But I think people are happy to have their hands in the soil." Graines De Soleil is part of a network of non-profit organisations fighting food poverty around France's second city, Marseille, where around 26% of the population live below the poverty line compared to the French average of around 14% Across Graines de Soleil's three hectares (7 acres) 18 employees and around 30 'apprentices' grow fresh produce which is then sent to grocery co-operatives a 'social grocery' in the industrial town of Gardanne The apprentices include recently arrived immigrants and prisoners on day release there is a mix-up with a delivery to Colibri and Caroline Plas project director with the NGO La Cité de l'agriculture "I've actually never been the delivery guy before," said Plas The COVID-19 outbreak made things worse: as the informal economy was hit by lockdowns and energy prices rose, food aid systems were overwhelmed Project manager Etienne Griffaton stands in front of vegetables growing at the Graines de Soleil farming complex in Châteauneuf-les-Martigues an umbrella organisation set up to fight food insecurity collectives like Territoires à Vivres have developed new ways to provide food while addressing the stigma associated with food banks and what critics describe as a paternalistic attitude towards aid recipients "With COVID we noticed that the groups working in this field adapted their behaviour .. in order to provide people with the food they needed," said Aïcha Sif a city councillor and deputy mayor in charge of urban agriculture and food sustainability Another saw the development of social groceries like Colibri Colibri stocks its shelves from urban farms like Graines de Soleil and buys subsidised food from supermarket chains The staff are all volunteers and each item has two prices typically people living just above the poverty line while others pay a full or 'solidarity' price retirees as well as immigrants without secure status They are also "often poor workers who are right on the line despite a small salary with no help from the state," said volunteer Pascale Michel Labels show the ‘beneficiary’ and ‘solidarity’ prices for items at the Colibri social grocery store in Gardanne Mothers with their children line up to collect food boxes at the Racines social grocery store in Marseille’s 3rd district Colibri consults its members on what they want to see on the shelves "If people can choose what they want to eat "They can buy what they want and feel they're not begging." Emmy Barbier is a single mother with a part-time job Rising food and energy prices mean she struggles to pay her bills in a fairly old home that isn't well insulated It's the same problem every year," she said He lives off a small French pension while awaiting his Italian one which has been held up by bureaucratic issues "The food here is good quality and it's not expensive for me," said Zammataro "The other associations that give out food he will keep coming to Colibri to pay the full price "There are a lot of people who need help like this Retired chef Giuseppe Zammataro stands in front of fresh produce at the Colibri social grocery store in Gardanne Emmy Barbier shows her weekly shopping at the Colibri social grocery store in Gardanne members of the Racines social grocery can buy limited quantities of food at reduced prices people living in or near absolute poverty can collect pre-prepared food boxes paid for by the non-profit Groupe SOS Solidarités Many immigrant families from the Maghreb and other parts of Africa shop here who fled Algeria after becoming pregnant while she was unmarried I have a three-month-old baby to take care of and so I can't work (Racines) is very important for us," she said a dietician who works with the local government said nutrition was also a problem in Marseille with obesity a common issue among poor and immigrant families "There's not enough vegetables and fresh food and the infrastructure is not well-equipped for sport and other activities," said Boyer so mothers don't want to go out with their children." Inequality in Marseille was exacerbated by the pandemic-era collapse of the informal economy which deprived poor and immigrant families of income Councillor Sif is working to increase the land available to urban farming projects and relocalise food production "Food scarcity and precarity are a door to other vulnerabilities within these communities," said Sif we discover afterwards that they are also in need of many other things - energy who asked to be identified only by her first name has been out of work for two years after an accident-related disability (Reporting by Frey Lindsay; Editing by Jon Hemming.) Context is powered by the Thomson Reuters Foundation Newsroom Our Standards: Thomson Reuters Trust Principles These links open on reuters.com By providing your email, you agree to our Privacy Policy What does a Donald Trump presidency mean for LGBTQ+ rights? 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Ce site risque de ne pas s'afficher correctement. Mettez à jour votre navigateur pour améliorer votre expérience secrétaire d'État à la Transition écologique et solidaire The City of Gardanne undertook this project to redevelop the abandoned Yvon Morandat mine site under its policy to enhance its heritage from the past with a view to the future This 14-hectare brownfield site is being redeveloped by the SEMAG (semi-public planning company for Gardanne and its surroundings) to create an economic cultural and energy hub that aims to become France's first activity cluster earning the Mediterranean Eco-District and Sustainable Neighbourhood label as an "ecosystem" for innovation and  scientific culture committed to a social and solidarity-based economy were actively involved in developing the network for producing geothermal energy from minewater to be deployed within the cluster in the first half of 2018 The BRGM conducted a pre-feasibility study to assess opportunities for using rising minewater as a natural and renewable source of geothermal energy Minewater can be extracted from one of Europe's deepest mine-shafts the 1100 metre "Y" shaft at the abandoned Yvon Morandat mine The study first examined opportunities across the entire Gardanne district before identifying scenarios to match the configuration and requirements of the Yvon Morandat hub The aim is to meet heating and cooling needs for the future hub via an innovative facility for renewable and recoverable energy (ENR&R) created by converting the infrastructure previously used for fossil fuel extraction The BRGM also assisted the SEMAG for the selection of an energy company that would become a stakeholder in the SEMAG subsidiary SAS Énergie Solidaire which was established to become the owner-operator of the energy network The result will be an innovative and agile energy network based on smart-grid technology with exchanges between buildings on the block-chain principle and power production for own consumption via hybrid solar and battery storage technologies Représentation du projet du Puits Yvon Morandat à Gardanne.  After short-listing 12 candidates from over thirty submissions from France as a whole the jury for the EPL (Local Public Enterprises) Trophies urban planning and landscapes working under the ministries for the ecological and solidarity-based transition and for territorial cohesion selected the city of Gardanne and the SEMAG for their project to redevelop the Yvon Morandat mine "from brownfield site to technological and social innovation hub" Secretary of State for the Ecological Solidarity-Based Transition the redevelopment project for the Morandat mine promoted by the City of Gardanne and the SEMAG was awarded the "Smart Cities for Tomorrow" prize Subscribe to our newsletter and receive our news every month Legislation approved by Senate will apply to existing and new car parks with space for at least 80 vehicles All large car parks in France will be covered by solar panels under new legislation approved as part of president Emmanuel Macron’s renewable energy drive Legislation approved by the French Senate this week requires existing and new car parks with space for at least 80 vehicles to be covered by solar panels The owners of car parks with between 80 and 400 spaces have five years to comply with the measures while operators of those with more than 400 will have just three years At least half of the area of the larger sites must be covered by solar panels The French government believes the measure could generate up to 11 gigawatts of power Politicians had originally applied the bill to car parks larger than 2,500 sq metres before deciding to opt for car parking spaces French politicians are also examining proposals to build large solar farms on empty land by motorways and railways as well as on farmland The former UK prime minister Liz Truss considered blocking solar farms being built on agricultural land The sight of parked cars under the shade of solar panels is not unfamiliar in France one of the UK’s largest specialist green energy investors has invested in a large solar car park in Borgo on Corsica Macron has thrown his weight behind nuclear energy over the past year and in September announced plans to boost France’s renewable energy industry He visited the country’s first offshore windfarm off the port of Saint-Nazaire off the west coast and hopes to speed up the build times of windfarms and solar parks The move comes as European nations examine their domestic energy supplies in the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Technical problems and maintenance on the powerhouse French nuclear fleet has exacerbated the problem while the national operator EDF was forced to cut its output in the summer when French rivers became too warm The government has also launched a communication campaign encouraging individuals and industry to cut their energy usage and the Eiffel Tower lights are being turned off more than an hour earlier The French government plans to spend €45bn shielding households and businesses from energy price shocks ScottishPower announced it would increase its five-year investment target by £400m to £10.4bn by 2025 The UK solar and windfarm developer hopes to generate 1,000 jobs in the next 12 months While the three works that Cézanne exhibited in 1874 at the first Impressionist exhibition were not fully in line with the Impressionist technique of quickly placing appliqués of pigment on the canvas he did eventually abandon his relatively dark palette in exchange for brilliant tones and began painting out of doors encouraged by the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) His Bathers (1976.201.12) of 1874–75 demonstrates a developed style and tonal scale in one of his first paintings of this theme The landscape of Bathers has the brilliance of plein-air painting drawn from the artist’s imagination (Cézanne rarely painted nudes from life) The complex process of drawing inspiration from these two sources The Fisherman (Fantastic Scene) (2001.473) while its subject recalls the themes of fantasy familiar from the 1860s; it too could be the product of two polar sources In his still-life paintings from the mid-1870s Cézanne abandoned his thickly encrusted surfaces and began to address technical problems of form and color by experimenting with subtly gradated tonal variations or “constructive brushstrokes,” to create dimension in his objects and Apples of about 1877 (29.100.66) shows Cézanne’s rejection of the intense contrasts of light and shadow of his earlier years in exchange for a refined system of color scales placed next to one another The light of Impressionism resonates in this work but signs of a revised palette are especially apparent in his muted tones Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses (51.112.1) reveals Cézanne’s artistic evolution and mastery of this style of building forms completely from color and creating scenes with distorted perspectival space are rendered without use of light or shadow but through extremely subtle gradations of color In such still lifes as Dish of Apples (1997.60.1) of about 1876–77 Cézanne ignores the laws of classical perspective allowing each object to be independent within the space of a picture while the relationship of one object to another takes precedence over traditional single-point perspective especially Braque’s impressions of L’Estaque of about 1908 Cézanne began a series of five pictures of Provençal peasants playing cards Widely celebrated as among the finest figure compositions completed by the artist The Card Players (61.101.1) demonstrates his system of color gradations to build form and create a three-dimensional quality in the figures Continuing on this theme of the rural laborer Seated Peasant (1997.60.2) celebrates the dignity of working-class citizens of Third Republic France (1870–1940) and collectors Henry Osborne Havemeyer (1847–1907) and his wife Louisine Havemeyer (1855–1929) Posthumous exhibitions at Galerie Bernheim-Jeune and the Salon d’Automne in 1907 in Paris established Cézanne’s artistic legacy James VoorhiesDepartment of European Paintings “Paul Cézanne (1839–1906).” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pcez/hd_pcez.htm (October 2004) More from the Timeline of Art HistoryView all By subscribing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy JJJJound is back with its newest collaboration the Montreal-based design studio has teamed up with Plasticana to “reimagine” the brand’s popular Gardana clog The clog is made entirely of recycled hemp and is designed for a relaxed The vegan plastic derives its sepia color entirely from the material’s naturally occurring sugars the brand has merely stamped its logo on the back heel and receive alerts when they’re in the news Proactive financial news and online broadcast teams provide fast informative and actionable business and finance news content to a global investment audience All our content is 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for the region the group said it filed a request to secure a feed-in tariff for RNG to be injected into the GRTgaz natural gas transmission network and has begun discussions with a number of French utilities for potential project funding which will bill roughly €250,000 for engineering services for the pre-FEED work then anticipates that it will lead the full FEED work that it calculates should be worth at least another €750,000 in fees most of which will be charged in the first half of next year said “momentum is growing for the project in terms of solution development political support and investment attractiveness” he said the project is also “gaining traction” with private-sector investors looking to invest in clean energy infrastructure that fits well with the direction of French policy Le Saint added that the RNG tariffs for France are due to be announced soon and he is “confident we will secure a tariff along with critical permits that move us closer to making Biogaz Gardanne a 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Terms of use C’est à Gardanne que se construit actuellement le premier réseau d’énergie français basé sur les eaux d’ennoyage d’une mine les ressources renouvelables devraient contribuer à l’alimentation du site à hauteur de 85 % Le projet a été labellisé éco-quartier niveau 1 Une première pour un parc d’activité en France Souvent pointée du doigt pour son usine Alteo dans l’affaire des rejets en mer la commune fait un pas en avant vers les énergies renouvelables avec son projet de construction d’un réseau d’énergie intelligent qui chauffera et climatisera tous les bâtiments actuels et futurs du pôle d’activités en utilisant les eaux d’ennoyage grâce au plus grand puits minier d’Europe, 1 109 mètres de profondeur et relié à une réserve souterraine de 35 millions de m3 d’eau formée par les anciennes galeries de la mine c’est tout un quartier de 14 hectares composé d’une pépinière de start-ups cité des sciences de la Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence et de la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Plus de 1000 emplois seront créés d’ici 4 ans Energie Solidaire a débuté les travaux d’installation de 2 ballons en acier de 50 m3 unitaire dans l’ancienne chaufferie Cette installation a pour but de créer de l’inertie en stockant de l’énergie et en la restituant au bon moment en chaud et froid couplé à des pompes à chaleur permet de mieux réguler le réseau d’éviter les pertes d’énergie et de pomper l’eau du puits en journée lorsque le soleil alimentera les nombreux panneaux photovoltaïques du site Ces installations fonctionneront en autoconsommation à partir de l’électricité produite par les panneaux photovoltaïques installés sur l’ensemble des toitures des bâtiments La mise en service définitive de ce réseau est prévue pour début 2019 Les travaux réalisés sur site ont été confiés à des entreprises locales et partiellement à des travailleurs en insertion professionnelle Maire de Gardanne et Président de la SEMAG, « Le Pôle Yvon Morandat sera un lieu unique de synergie entre le monde économique et le monde culturel en accueillant la Cité des Sciences de la Métropole Aix Marseille Provence et de la Région Sud nous regardons vers l’avenir sans oublier le passé » Sur les 14 hectares de l’ancien site de la mine de charbon de Gardanne la métamorphose a enfin commencé via la société mixte d’aménagement SEMAG a décidé de transformer l’ancienne mine en parc d’activités tourné vers les industries innovantes soutenu par le Pays d’Aix Développement et Provence Promotion qui proposent un accompagnement à l’implantation d’entreprises Le groupement composé du groupe Eiffage Immobilier, de l’agence 3A Architectes et de la société Récipro-Cité a été désigné lauréat de l’appel à projet lancé par la SEMAG pour la réalisation d’un ensemble d’immobilier novateur et qui permettra à Gardanne de prendre un virage obligé avec beaucoup d’intelligence Un des projets qui assure l’avenir de Gardanne elle devais y être depuis 2 ans … mais il semble que la politique va plus vite que la technologie pour M le Maire … ça risque d’être un site unique en Europe car basé sur un réseau internet de pigeons … Les champs obligatoires sont indiqués avec * mon e-mail et mon site dans le navigateur pour mon prochain commentaire Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Ancien carreau de mine avec le chevalement béton du puits Morandat qui deviendra la future ZAC exploitant le potentiel géothermique des eaux de mines.  is currently managed by the DPSM (the BRGM’s Mine Safety and Risk Prevention department) The mine galleries became flooded when pumping was partially shut down after mining ceased forming a large reservoir of water at temperatures of 20 to 30°C depending on depth (up to 1,000 m) This potential and as yet unused geothermal resource prompted the city of Gardanne to commission a characterisation study of the reservoir from the BRGM to use this potential source of very low energy geothermal heat via heat pumps to cover heating and cooling needs in a planned Joint Development Zone (ZAC) above the Yvon Morandat pit in Gardanne assess its long-term potential to meet needs on the surface and measure the hydraulic chemical and bacteriological impacts of extraction the BRGM undertook several types of studies A conceptual model was developed based on a regional geological model and plans of the main galleries linking pits that are still accessible and run with parameters from different scenarios The first scenario tested was for the ZAC project as originally designed (heating and cooling needs) a data centre was added (substantial cooling needs) The third scenario added heating for an existing residential sector The model showed the hydrothermal impacts of the different scenarios and associated technical solutions: cooling needs only with pumping and reinjection wells or with reversible hot and cold wells because the water becomes highly mineralised due to sulphur oxidation followed by flooding of the mine workings the characterisation of the resource also included an assessment of the impact of temperature (storage of calories or frigories) and of potential oxygenation effects on the physico-chemical characteristics of the mine water 3D hydrodynamic model of the flooded mine reservoir These investigations showed the relevance of scenario n° 1 with alternating heat and cold production according to season via a reversible well (the pumping well becomes an injection well a solution that limits the thermal impacts of extraction on the resource This study was able to draw on knowledge acquired during previous work since 2000 with Dutch researchers under the Interreg IIIB project for north-west Europe and from a pilot site established at Heerlen (Minewater project) It provided decision-support material and recommendations for the Gardanne municipality on using the mine water for heating and cooling needs The SEMAG (joint company for Gardanne development) is looking to relaunch the project with further investigations into other solutions (pumping and reinjection in a single well closed loop geothermal exchanger) and their installation costs A commercial court in France on Thursday handed control of Alteo to Guinea-based logistics specialist United Mining Supply (UMS) UMS was the last remaining candidate to take over Alteo’s production site near the southern city of Marseille a year after it entered bankruptcy proceedings because of falling orders against the backdrop of a global crisis in the aluminium industry Alumina is smelted to produce aluminium metal but is also used as a raw material for ceramics and consumer products such as smartphone screens The court said UMS’s financial support as a new shareholder in Alteo Holding would allow the plant to free up enough cashflow to carry on owned by French-Lebanese-Guinean businessman Fadi Wazni will take on part of Alteo’s debt and phase out the import of bauxite within 12 to 18 months because of its environmental impact Alteo imports its bauxite mainly from Guinea the factory has been stocking bauxite residue outdoors prompting complaints from local residents about air and water pollution The company has been accused of dumping polluted production residue with the cost estimated at up to €30 million including subcontractors and service providers making it one of the biggest employers in the Aix-en-Provence region please register for free or log in to your account https://www.longfordleader.ie/section/1238/advertise-with-us weather & more in Longford and County Longford All the latest breaking local news from Longford and County Longford Keep up to date with the latest sports news Read all the latest Irish news and updates from around Ireland Find whats happening in and around Longford and County Longford Enjoy our award winning photos and picture galleries taken in Longford and County Longford Read about the latest properties available in Longford and County Longford Enjoy our latest and up to date motoring review and news in Longford and County Longford Longford and County Longford Met Eireann Weather Forecast Recent death notices and obituaries from Longford and County Longford Latest environmental and climate change news in County Longford Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter Support our mission and join our community now you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism Ballyleague passed away following an illness borne with tremendous spirit.  Brendan Dunne lived with his wife Marion and family in France for a number of years.  Brendan’s legacy here in the community will always be remembered by his great spirit his big warm and genuine and warm smile even at the 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with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie Voilà deux ans que les boues rouges ne sont plus rejetées en mer du côté des calanques de Cassis Mais des eaux résiduelles polluées continuent d’être déversées président d’Alteo a dévoilé ce jeudi sa solution « unique au monde » de traitement des eaux résiduelles afin de les débarrasser presque entièrement des métaux polluants Un investissement de six millions d’euros après plus de deux années de recherches Cette station de traitement des eaux résiduelles prendra place au cœur de l’usine de Gardanne et sera opérationnelle au début 2019 Injecter du gaz carbonique dans l’eau pour réduire le PH et augmenter l’acidité Résultat : les métaux dissous deviennent solides et sont facilement récupérables Selon le directeur des opérations d’Alteo les eaux rejetées en mer « seront totalement conformes à la réglementation nationale sur les rejets des installations classées pour l’environnement » et de teneur en aluminium ou en métaux lourds polluants comme l’arsenic seront alors respectés « il reste deux paramètres qui sont encore en dérogation : la demande chimique et biologique en oxygène qui n’ont pas vraiment d’importance au niveau du rejet en mer C’est un milieu ouvert sans problème d’oxygénation«  en arrêtant de rejeter des boues rouges dans la mer Alteo avait déjà réduit « de plus de 99,95% le rejet de matières solides et de plus de 99% le rejet de métaux«  précise le président d’Alteo Frédéric Ramé L’eau rejetée en mer devrait donc respecter un seuil de pollution « acceptable » Alteo prévoit d’atteindre dès 2019 les normes de qualité concernant le PH et les concentrations métalliques fixées pour le 31 décembre 2021 Mais que deviennent les résidus polluants récupérés La mise en place des « filtres-presses » en 2016 avait permis de mettre fin aux rejets des « boues rouges » en les déshydratant pour récupérer un « déchet sec » Celui-ci est traité de trois manières différentes Une partie est stockée à Bouc-Bel-Air ou d’une « croûte » ils sont censés être contenus Malgré ces précautions et un système d’arrosage associations et riverains sont inquiets des poussières que le vent peut répandre Une autre partie de ces déchets est valorisée Soit comme matériaux de construction (expansion de béton par exemple) ou… comme dépolluant Car l’oxyde de fer (qui donne la couleur rouge aux boues) permet de piéger de nombreux métaux lourds Pour les déchets polluants récoltés par la future station de traitement des eaux résiduelles (aluminium et autres métaux lourds) la question reste encore ouverte Cette « usine à gaz » est une bonne réalisation mais le budget aurait été mieux employé si on l’avait d’abord utilisé pour supprimer le rejet urbain polluant à Cortiou en améliorant les performances de Géolide (mise en place d’un traitement tertiaire) Les autorités politiques n’ont pas conscience des priorités en matière d’environnement Il n’est pas tolérable que les calanques soient le seul parc national au monde pollué et empoisonné avec la bénédiction des autorités dites responsables président de l’association Union Calanques Littoral Alteo ne va pas reduire la pollution de l’eau des callanque Alteo va reduire l’augmentation de la ollution des eaux des callanques Maos Alteo va bel et bien continuer a polluer l’eau des callanques Attention a la communication des entreprises