Rise in fuel prices: blockages continue, actions in La Rochelle and Agen – South West

The latter presented in the afternoon his “resilience plan” to enable companies to cope with the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine, by reducing their energy bill in the short term but also by measures intended to make the French economy less dependent on Russia. Blocking of the port of La RochelleIn Charente-Maritime, around sixty people, mainly fishermen, blocked the fuel depot of the commercial port of La Pallice in La Rochelle this morning. The blockage continued after the announcement of the government plan. Using tires and pallets, they have been erecting barricades since four in the morning. Everything was going quietly in the middle of the morning. “A lot of boats are already stopped. Some are still at sea, but it’s not significant,” says Philippe Micheau, a fisherman at Château-d’Oléron. appeal of the Rural Coordination, dumped tires this morning in front of the prefecture in Agen to claim “GNR (non-road diesel) for less than one euro” and “energy tax exemption”. “It is a symbolic action. We are targeting the state, ”said Pascal Béteille, president of CR 47. Blockages in Brittany noon, according to protesters and authorities. “There is nothing at all in this plan apart from load deferrals, which we can already have in normal times. Only the fishermen got 35 cents” per liter of diesel, explained, from the Lorient depot, Norbert Guillou, business manager. “We maintain the blockage (of the Lorient depot, editor’s note) and we reinforce it because it is to take us for fools”, continued this manager of a public works company. In Brest, the depot was blocked by a fifty demonstrators and about sixty vehicles and machines. “We are very far from what we asked for. We are very far from reality. Today the price at the pump is decreasing a little but we don’t know how much it will be tomorrow. We have no vision for the future,” explained Cyrille Petton, public works contractor. “So the measures that have been announced, for us, are not enough. We are not lifting the blockade, we are going to barricade ourselves, we will not move, ”he added. Already rising steadily in recent months, the price of fuel has soared since the start of the war in Ukraine, increases impossible to pass on in their entirety to customers and consumers for carriers in particular, but also for farmers or fishermen.