The plateau, on the documents
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Six turbines, 19.8 megawatts, four years of review. The fate of the Trois-Vents wind farm will not be decided at November's public inquiry, but in one line of a grid connection file nobody has read.
Written by Hakim Zerrouki
24.6 million euros, 18.2 of them running costs. Six charts for six questions: where the euro goes, who provides it, what is rising, what is falling, debt per head, and what is left to fund.
Written by Hakim Zerrouki
A 1983 payslip in constant euros, a 2026 sawmill pay scale. The comparison vindicates neither those who mourn the mill nor those who celebrate the reinvention. It gives figures.
Written by Théo Brissac
214 staff, 168 of them women. On 14 June 1983 the La Rive-Haute mill produced until 5.40 p.m. Hour by hour, what that last day was — the workshop register, the production book and six memories.
Written by Noëlle Vasseur
Eleven producers, 96 tonnes a year, a PDO application lodged in 2024. Set the cost of the specification against the premium per kilo, and two of the eleven do not cover their costs. They know it.
Written by Théo Brissac
41 % full on 12 August, the lowest reading since 1976. The operator of the Fauge dam refused the release three villages were asking for. He had no choice, and nobody had read the rule that forbade it.
Written by Ana-Lucia Ferreiro
Intake, treatment, distribution, sewerage, water policing: five tiers decide the plateau's water, and none of them can tell the other four what to do. First of a five-part series, from the intake to the shut-off.
Written by Hakim Zerrouki
Six turbines, 19.8 megawatts, four years of review. The fate of the Trois-Vents wind farm will not be decided at November's public inquiry, but in one line of a grid connection file nobody has read.
Written by Hakim Zerrouki
Intake, treatment, distribution, sewerage, water policing: five tiers decide the plateau's water, and none of them can tell the other four what to do. First of a five-part series, from the intake to the shut-off.
Written by Hakim Zerrouki
No farm in the family, no land, no herd: in 2021 she took on the 42 cows of Les Sagnes with a financial structure nobody in the valley had tried. Five years on, the structure is holding. Only just.
Written by Camille Fournier-Braud
A 1983 payslip in constant euros, a 2026 sawmill pay scale. The comparison vindicates neither those who mourn the mill nor those who celebrate the reinvention. It gives figures.
Written by Théo Brissac
Eleven producers, 96 tonnes a year, a PDO application lodged in 2024. Set the cost of the specification against the premium per kilo, and two of the eleven do not cover their costs. They know it.
Written by Théo Brissac
214 staff, 168 of them women. On 14 June 1983 the La Rive-Haute mill produced until 5.40 p.m. Hour by hour, what that last day was — the workshop register, the production book and six memories.
Written by Noëlle Vasseur
41 % full on 12 August, the lowest reading since 1976. The operator of the Fauge dam refused the release three villages were asking for. He had no choice, and nobody had read the rule that forbade it.
Written by Ana-Lucia Ferreiro
24.6 million euros, 18.2 of them running costs. Six charts for six questions: where the euro goes, who provides it, what is rising, what is falling, debt per head, and what is left to fund.
Written by Hakim Zerrouki
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