The end of last week, the Conseil Général of the Loire-Atlantique, spoke about the security around the canal de Nantes à Brest and took decisions to maintain the banks of the canal.

 Being students aware of the environment and as citizens from Loire-Atlantique, it is our responsability to protect our région. This is the reason why we are interested in the canal de Nantes à Brest. A meeting about it took place few days ago.

       « An accident has been avoided, during the previous summer, at the banks of the canal, around Guerlédan », explains Monique Le Clézio, one of the elected representatives: « Kids were playing near the canal, a place where the banks are not maintained clean and safe, they could not see the river and nearly fell down. »

       The maintenance of this part of the canal had to be assumed by the Région and the département of Morbihan: it is their responsability to keep it safe. It is necesary as well, to exchange information between local government authorities to avoid accidents.
      
The conseil général will act, especially at the intersection of the lake of Guérlédan, where the canal is dirty and where some tourism access is not possible due to access problems.
       The challenge for local government authorities is now to find financial means to act quickly and efficiently knwing that the mission is not easy. Indeed, this nice place is becoming a dangerous waste reception centre.

Julien Brigand -Sup 3 - Iseg Nantes