L\u2019audience publique convoqu\u00e9e hier par le Pr\u00e9fet du d\u00e9partement de Tivaouane autour de la validation d\u2019une convention liant la commune de Koul \u00e0 une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pour l\u2019exploitation d\u2019une petite mine de phosphates s\u2019est termin\u00e9e en queue de poisson. Regroup\u00e9es au sein du collectif d\u00e9nomm\u00e9 \u00abSamm sunu moomel\u00bb, dirig\u00e9 par Mamadou Bousso Diop, les populations, venues d\u2019une quinzaine de villages pour exprimer leurs pr\u00e9occupations sur la question, se sont cat\u00e9goriquement oppos\u00e9es au projet, estimant que l\u2019implantation d\u2019une activit\u00e9 extractive menacerait les terres agricoles h\u00e9rit\u00e9es de leurs anc\u00eatres. Elles d\u00e9noncent l\u2019adoption du protocole \u00absans consultation citoyenne pr\u00e9alable\u00bb, et affirment qu\u2019elles n\u2019accepteront jamais que leurs terres, leur environnement et leur avenir soient brad\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Les craintes des populations de Koul qui, du fait de multiples nuisances, s\u2019opposent \u00e0 la d\u00e9cision d\u2019ouvrir l\u2019exploitation des phosphates, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 confirm\u00e9es par l\u2019\u00e9tude d\u2019impact environnemental et social dont les r\u00e9sultats ont \u00e9t\u00e9 partag\u00e9s r\u00e9cemment par le collectif \u00abSamm sunu moomel\u00bb. Selon le document, l\u2019exploitation de ces phosphates de Koul va occasionner des effets n\u00e9fastes chez les populations, provoquant l\u2019alt\u00e9ration de la qualit\u00e9 de l\u2019air, la modification de l\u2019ambiance sonore, du paysage, les risques d\u2019atteinte aux eaux souterraines, la d\u00e9gradation du cadre de vie, les pertes d\u2019activit\u00e9s \u00e9conomiques dont l\u2019agriculture et l\u2019\u00e9levage. Sans compter les risques d\u2019atteinte du milieu social et culturel, ainsi que les accidents et maladies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selon toujours le document, il y a la pr\u00e9sence de p\u00e9rim\u00e8tres agricoles, de villages et de sites culturels dans l\u2019emprise du permis d\u2019exploitation.
\u00abAujourd\u2019hui, plus que jamais, malgr\u00e9 l\u2019implication des autorit\u00e9s administratives, le collectif s\u2019oppose \u00e0 l\u2019exploitation des phosphates afin de pr\u00e9server le bien-\u00eatre des populations\u00bb, d\u00e9clarent les porte-parole des riverains. Ils estiment que, malgr\u00e9 les promesses et r\u00e9alisations, il y a beaucoup d\u2019inqui\u00e9tudes li\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9ducation, \u00e0 la sant\u00e9, aux liens sociaux, \u00e0 l\u2019environnement, \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9levage et \u00e0 l\u2019agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Par Cheikh CAMARA \u2013 cheikh.camara@lequotidien.sn<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" L\u2019audience publique convoqu\u00e9e hier par le Pr\u00e9fet du d\u00e9partement de Tivaouane autour de la validation d\u2019une convention liant la commune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fait-divers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dekkbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dekkbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dekkbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dekkbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dekkbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dekkbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64912,"href":"https:\/\/dekkbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64910\/revisions\/64912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dekkbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dekkbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dekkbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dekkbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}