EVENT INFORMATION

17
January
2018

Government abandons the Notre-Dame-des-Landes airport project

← Back to Dashboard
๐Ÿ“… 17 January 2018 ๐Ÿ“ France

The French government announced that it would not build the long-contested airport. Decades of resistance included legal challenges, local organizing, farmer actions and the ZAD experiment in collective occupation and land use. The announcement was a major movement victory, though residents still faced pressure to regularize occupations and the state later carried out evictions. The outcome illustrates how an environmental campaign can alter national infrastructure policy while leaving unresolved questions about land stewardship and self-determination.

Log in to like or bookmark this story.
๐Ÿ”– Bookmark

People in this event

Edouard Philippe

local residents and campaigners

Organizations in this Event

French government

ACIPA

ZAD residents

anti-airport collectives