Saturday, May 21, 2016

Fuel: petrol stations stormed – Le Figaro

VIDEO – The release of several major fuel depots helped replenish some stations. For fear of shortages, prefectures have introduced rationing queues of motorists lengthen before the pumps. The CGT wants to amplify the movement

Long queues at the stations still open, sometimes up to the road. Hounded the motorists Saturday fuels in most western cities, while many departments have issued orders limiting distribution. These orders are to avoid shortages, due to blockage of refineries by opponents of the labor law. Repealing or evacuation Friday from several major fuel depots and orders allow trucks to circulate on weekends, however, helped replenish some stations Saturday morning. But many others remained dry, and those still supplied were literally under assault in the early hours of Saturday morning with impressive queues and sometimes traffic jams. At Landerneau (Finistère), a supermarket even had to close his service station, because the queue fuel vehicles waiting prevented customers from accessing the store, reported the Daily Telegram. In Saint-Brieuc as in Brest, Rennes and Nantes, it was sometimes more than half an hour to an hour, to access the pumps, according to the testimony of motorists, some discouraged, sometimes did turn around.

If the exact situation was difficult to change, fluctuating stocks from one station to another and even from one department to another, the rush to the pumps could boost the risk of shortages fuel, despite the rationing measures Friday in several departments and even force Saturday. The Ille-et-Vilaine prefectures, Côtes d’Armor, Finistère, Orne, Loire-Atlantique, Vendée, Mayenne or Eure and Cher took Friday arrested limiting 20 or 30 liters maximum volume of gasoline for vehicles, and 40 or 150 liters for trucks. Several prefectures have banned the storage in cans, as in Seine-Maritime, Calvados, Nord, Somme and the Pas-de-Calais, calling “civic commitment and the responsibility of everyone.” There is “no shortage of fuel in the Somme and replenishments even slow down, continue to do, including over the weekend,” says the prefect of the Somme The Voice of North . Other commandeered some stations for supplying fuel to the emergency services.

The resumption of operation of most fuel depots could however allow a rapid return to normal. By late Friday afternoon, authorities evacuated the access to six of the eight oil storage sites that were blocked for several days by employees of the transport sector, opposed to labor law. This was the case for those of Vern-sur-Seiche (Ille-et-Vilaine) and the port of Lorient (Morbihan), both released by the police. Methods that the secretary general of the CGT criticized Saturday. Wizernes traveling to the North where he came to support 250 workers and activists demonstrating outside the paper mill to Arjowiggins, Philippe Martinez said that François Hollande and Manuel Valls, “using the same methods as Sarkozy in 2010″ by sending “the police to break strikes. ” And prevent “the government is wrong in playing the card of police and requisitions.” He added that “in 2010, the time of Sarkozy, the French government had been condemned, because it is forbidden to make such requisitions and dislodge such movements.” “There will be a reaction to the height of what the government did,” he threatened.

Nearly Rouen, they have also released the deposit terminal Ruby Grand-Quevilly and four blocked deposits in the North, there remained only one Friday evening, according to the prefectures. Saturday morning, the access of the third refinery in France, that of Exxon Mobil, in Notre-Dame-de-Gravenchon (Seine-Maritime) were also released by the CGT and FO union that blocked. However, employees of the Total refinery of Donges (Loire-Atlantique), who voted 55% Friday complete shutdown of the installations, blocked the deposit with a picket line.

This update stopped refineries also represents the main risk of shortage for the coming days, knowing that it takes about 3 days to stop facilities and much if not more to revive. Now, as in Donges, employees of those Gonfreville-Orcher, near Le Havre, and Feyzin, near Lyon, voted Friday shutdown of facilities and began their shutdown.

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