Ghislain Chassary: ​​”The CEO of Solvay led us up the garden path, he took us for fools”

For the mayor of Rousson: “These guys have no word and the employees, we must not forget, have remained dignified.” S.B. – STEPHANE BARBIER

During the urban council meeting on Wednesday, October 16, in the Atome room, the closure of the Salindrois site largely fueled the debates…

After the fears, the anger!
At the end of the debates evoking the drastic reduction of 5 billion euros promised to the communities by the Barnier government, it was the news of the closure of the Solvay site, 68 layoffs, which fueled the discussions.
With sometimes divergent analyses on the causes, a shared conviction that the industrial group has played with political actors as well as its employees, concord on the subject was found in the evocation of the necessary decontamination of the site within the framework of an economic interest group (GIE). Opening the ball, the communist Paul Planque assures that “ there is no “environmentalist” drift […] the main reason for the closure is the search for ever greater profit in disregard of pollution. “

I'm taking my bottle of Cristaline here and there are TFAs in it that are higher than expected

Following in his footsteps, Ghislain Chassary, mayor of Rousson, deplores this “failure on industrial employment”. Before driving the wedge. “Solvay is and will be the only company, in 170 years, to have closed a piece of the platform. Besides that, we had to deal with a CEO, I told him clearly, who led us up the garden path. He took us for fools… These guys have no word and the employees, we must not forget, have remained dignified. There, there are 68 guys. “
Christophe Rivenq, president of the agglomeration, castigates, “  the pseudo revelations of the investigation by the association Générations futures which will become, perhaps, one day, a danger for health but this is not the case today “.
The elected official continued by assuring “that there are no resources in Alès agglo that contain Pfas in quantities greater than those of the European regulations as of January 1, 2026. We also knew that the closure had nothing to do with the economy, but it was its image that had been tarnished by these pseudo-revelations. Salindres is being sacrificed on the altar of their image. Moreover, on the same day, Solvay gained 1.5% in the stock market price… "

 The polluting side of PFAS and TFA is recognized in many countries. Germany has just banned manufacturing on its territory