Despite nation's and local political support, they fear that Alteo will stop working and leave behind more than a century of pollution. In 2021, exemptions allowing the industrialist in order to discharge his liquid waste at sea and to store red mud at Mange-Garri will come to an end. 8 million euros inside annual fees, but only THREE HUNDRED 000 euros.

Will Alteo manage to lead the technical improvements required to reduce its pollution? The Gardanne site incorporates a deficit of 40 million euros over three years, and Alteo, which is owned from the HIG investment fund, has sold its two other sites in France and a third in Germany.

The amendment focused to limit this decrease plus set the tax at 600, 000 euros. The numbers are generally debated. However, the latter continue being carriers of toxic elements. For Christian Eckert, Secretary of State for Budget plus Public Accounts, this amendment "would pose a substantial risk to the future of this company that would be very largely compromised - it is a euphemism. In accordance with some calculations, thanks to this specific fiscal niche, created in 2002 for the Alteo alone, combined with new methods of assessing pollution, the plant should will no longer pay 1. "

These fears about Alteo's economic future and blackmail for the highest level of state employment worried critics in the plant..Faced with the resumption of the controversy on the national level, François-Michel Lambert, Roger Meï in addition to Claude Jorda, Gardanne County Councilor, draft a joint press release in September 2016, saying that "it is a question of putting backside the territory, citizens, scientists and politicians in a very same positive dynamic for your Provence, positive for Filter Presses Suppliers the health from the inhabitants, positive for the earth, positive for the economic progression. They aimed to remove the cap within the company's water pollution levy. On SEVENTEEN November 2016, two amendments on the 2017 Finance law proposed simply by 32 Socialist deputies are quietly rejected. In the end, the agreement to discharge liquid effluents can be extended