Residents "Selling Off" Their Land to Escape CT Power

11 years, 6 months ago - October 24, 2012

While work began on the site of the future coal-fired power, CT Power, thirty owners have taken steps to sell their land to Albion.

" We do not want to suffer the same fate as the inhabitants of Mare-Chicose! " Fabiani Balisson starts representing people of Albion and Pointe-aux-Sables. The first pickaxe on the site of CT Power, led thirty owners to initiate steps to sell their land to Albion. They fear the pollution generated likely to be used by the power station. Some are even willing to sell at any price ... and " others, who had already begun the procedures for purchasing land, cancel all " .

District Council to Black River, it is confirmed that the owners want to sell their land. Even if, for the moment, " there is still nothing formal . "

Anyway, a real psychosis seems to have settled in the area, especially the fragmentation Kensington, established in 2000. However, land and houses are more than 500 meters from CT Power.

" We wonder if this project does not require us to leave , "Fabiani Balisson questions. Residents fear having to leave their homes like those Chicose-Mare. They had been forced to go against compensation, life becoming impossible next to a dump.

The majority of land for sale is the fragmentation Belle-Vue. Certain lands, rocky, were purchased for Rs 500,000 a decade ago. The best lots were, themselves, over Rs 1 million. And according to our information overlap, they will be sold at the same price. It is a " sellout "Fabiani Balisson loose.

The people of Albion and Pointe-aux-Sables, part of the platform citizen carry out, on their side, a protest march on November 3, Beau-Bassin in Port-Louis.

Text by lexpress.mu

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