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The safeguard of the lake of the Gruyère subjected to the Friborg people

The Friborgers pronounced on September 28 on the initiative “for the safeguard of Lac de la Gruyère and its banks”. The text wants to register the preservation and protection of the place in the cantonal constitution. It is rejected both by the Council of State and the Grand Council.

According to the Friborg Council of State, the cantonal master plan and the regional master plan already ensure the preservation of the biodiversity of Lac de la Gruyère, while allowing the
According to the Friborg Council of State, the cantonal master plan and the regional master plan already ensure the preservation of the biodiversity of Lac de la Gruyère, while allowing the “reasonable” development of tourism and leisure activities (archives).

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The committee of the constitutional initiative “Sauvez les Laviaux” decided in November to maintain its text. One month earlier, the deputies had followed the position of the Council of State by rejecting it by 79 votes against 4 and 14 abstentions. According to them, “there is no need to legislate more to protect the lake from the Gruyère”.

According to the members of the Committee, there is no “serious guarantee” at present to avoid new “out -of -scale” projects, such as that of the artificial wave now abandoned in Morlon. Worse, even, in their eyes, “there are several clues that new importance infrastructure could emerge.”

Exceptional set

The Gruyère master plan indeed allows this type of development to multiple locations around the lake. And it is precisely these that the committee intends to fight. “The lake of La Gruyère is an exceptional natural and landscape set, which the current legal apparatus protects only in a lacunar manner”.

“Preserving this set represents not only added value for Gruyère and sweet tourism. It is also a theme that concerns all Friborg and Friborgers, now and in the future, “insisted the committee by presenting its arguments for the voting.

Beyond that, the initiative “does not aims to put the lake of La Gruyère under bell, contrary to what the Friborg government in its various declarations falsely asserts”. These are “intended, apparently, to scare”. “The initiators have always been very clear in their intentions,” they said.

Counter-projet

The text wants to support activities already present: hiking, fishing, sport and navigation. This is why the committee proposes to the Friborg people to register preservation and protection of the place in the cantonal constitution. An opinion which has against him a large fringe of opponents, as evidenced by the vote before the legislative.

In fact, the initiators, including the deputy PVL Daniel Savary, would have seen a good eye the emergence of a counter-project to their text, a text which was therefore, initially, in opposition to the abandoned project of artificial wave Goya Onda. In vain. According to the majority of elected officials, current protections are sufficient.

Note that during last year’s debates before the Grand Council, an amendment of the Socialist Party (PS), inviting to retain an alternative path and supported by the Green-Es and Allies group, did not pass the ramp. He asked to encourage to find an agreement to avoid a popular vote.

Too restrictive

As a reminder, Lake Gruyère was created artificially in 1948, in order to help cover the electricity needs of the canton of Friborg. He presents a considerable landscape wealth depicting the lake in his pre -Alpine setting, had then described Minister Didier Castella, in charge of institutions.

The region appears in the inventory of landscapes of cantonal importance (PIC) and the cantonal master plan. Part of the lake also constitutes a reserve of water birds and migrants of national importance. The Constitution also provides that state and municipalities preserve nature and cultural heritage.

Public authorities are required to protect the diversity of flora and fauna as well as vital environments. The initiative is “extremely restrictive and does not offer a room for maneuver”, noted the Council of State more recently, preventing projects of small importance, such as soft mobility developments.

The fully written constitutional initiative was validated in November 2023 by the Grand Council, unanimously of the 82 votes expressed then. It had been deposited prior to the State Chancellery fitted with 9,378 signatures, including 9,249 valid, while 6000 were required.

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