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The Codéma cooperative has decided to use its gas turbines
to generate electricity for households in the area.
Currently, the Codéma cooperative factory uses the
tubines to dry lucerne and produce granules, accounting for
the heavy scent of popcorn which hangs in the air of Changé.
The process is fuelled by methane gas from household waste,
powering turbines which create steam to dry the lucerne.
By 2010 the factory hopes to have enough turbines up and
running to produce 23 megawatts of electricity, about the
same as 20 wind turbines, to supply some 40,000 households.
Any unused electricity will be sold to the national
electricity supplier, EDF.
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...lies a threat to focal points of village communities.
Nick Rowswell takes a last puff in the centre of France.
The smoking ban is
upon us. The nation
which gave the world
the enigmatic aroma of the
Gauloise is going smokeless.
No longer will you be able to
light up in bars, cafés,
restaurants, discotheques, all
the lieux de convivialité. The
law allows establishments to
install special smoking
rooms, but the cost is
prohibitive. Prices for an
outside shelter start at around
€2,000. For an internal
smokers’ room with an air
filtration system, count in
excess of €10,000. The
cafétiers and restaurateurs of
Bourges are categorical, if
customers want to smoke
they can stand outside.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
British Tim Seager has
been brought in to head
up Kronenbourg France,
which operates Europe’s
biggest brewery at Obernai
and is based in Strasbourg.
He replaces Frenchman Yves
Couette, who is leaving the
company after only one year.
The former marketing
director of Scottish &
Newcastle, which owns
Kronenbourg, was born in
France and brought up for
eight years at nearby Colmar
in the Haut-Rhin. Before
joining S&N he was with
Proctor & Gamble, where he
was responsible for the
disposable nappy Pampers.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
‘The end is nigh’: this
is one of the many
proclamations
scrawled across the walls of
one of the strangest
contemporary arts museums
around.
Set in a quiet, middleclass
village outside Lyon,
Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d’Or
seems an unlikely place for
the museum called ‘Demeure
du Chaos’.
But entrepeneur and
sculptor Thierry Ehrmann
has done just that.
With the help of artists
from several countries, he’s
charred and scarred the
golden brickwork of a
former farmhouse, covering
it with startling images of
news events and celebrities,
including Tony Blair and
Osama bin Laden.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
The last minute change of heart of David Hotyat,
renouncing his appeal against conviction for murder of
the Flactif family, sent shockwaves through the Lyons
courtroom at the assizes appeal court on December 10. It is
the first time in French judicial history that an appellant has
renounced an appeal during proceedings.
The case has shocked and horrified the nation since 2003.
Hoytat had confessed to the murders of five members of the
Flactif family (including three children aged from six to 11),
in their chalet at Grand-Bornand in Haute-Savoie, before
retracting his story. His accomplices, partner Alexandra
Lefèvre, and friends Stéphane and Isabelle Haremza, who are
currently serving lengthy prison sentences for complicity, did
not appeal. After an 18-month wait for retrial, the victims’
families had been hoping for a confession, and they expressed
their disappointment at his decision.
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