Life Elia

Last 23rd and 24th September, the "Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech" organized a training on "the conservation and restoration of ecological continuity in transport infrastructure".

In this context, we have been asked to explain the principles of LIFE ELIA / RTE and give an overview of the specific project Haute Durance and on the entire project in Belgium and France but also its potential impact in 28 Member States.

Various stakeholders

Stakeholders in this training addressed the following topics:
- The challenges of biodiversity and the impact of transport infrastructure on habitats and populations.
- Lessons learned from European practices and methodological tools.
- The interlocking of scale in the Green and Blue Framework.
- The contribution of the landscape.
- Feedback from a consideration of the frame Green and Blue in the upstream phases of the project.
- Work with local partners
- The requirements of firms and the precise content of the specifications .

Also for public structures

And public structures targeted by the training were:
Counties, towns, DDTM (Departmental Directorates Territory and the Sea), DREAL (Regional Directorate of Environment, Planning and Housing), DIR (Direction interdepartmental Roads), Urban Communities, society infrastructure concession (RFF, motorway companies, GRT Gaz, ERDF, RTE, VNF, CNR ...), consultants in road, rail or engineering environment.

For these actors, the objectives of the training were to:
- To understand challenges of green and blue framework and the difference between "consideration" and "compatibility".
- Green and blue framework to integrate prior and during projects.
- help for choosing solutions to balance existing infrastructure or creation with green and blue framework.

Two keynote speakers

LIFE ELIA / RTE there was presented in tandem by Gérard Robinot, head of RTE project Haute Durance and Gérard Jadoul project coordinator.

Gérard Robinot developed project specific High Durance emphasizing the importance of taking into account biodiversity upstream of a project of territorial infrastructure. The contribution of the LIFE Biodiversity can conceive the relationship between HT line and respect for biodiversity not as a constraint but as an opportunity.

Gérard Jadoul presented the importance of large linear infrastructure such as ecological corridors linking together areas of natural habitats and habitats of species. The European dimension of the linear transport and N2000 network provides an important opportunity to enter for a natural boost network via anthropogenic network.