Posted on 09/06/2022 12:13:55 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Paris (AFP) – French sports and education groups expressed outrage Tuesday at the closure of around 30 swimming pools, after their operator said surging heating costs made them no longer viable.
“These closures directly impact all children and adults who won't be able to learn to swim," the French Swimming Federation (FFN) said in a statement, demanding the pools' "immediate" reopening.
Vert Marine, which operates pools and ice rinks across France, said Monday that its annual energy bill had jumped to 100 million euros ($99 million) from 15 million euros -- a figure it said equalled "the company's entire annual revenue".
The company said it was up to "local authorities and the government to take necessary and unprecedented decisions to get back to bearable energy costs".
Many of France's pools and ice rinks are old and energy-intensive, and they are set to be studied in more detail by a government working group on saving energy.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Maybe they can learn to play Hockey?
set up bonfires around the pools
France is all in for the Climate BS so enjoy the suck
And I thought the French hated water …..
Is it the soaring energy price or the amount of Muslim “yuts” who attack female swimmers of any age that have caused the shut downs?
Soap. They hate soap.
ya they never wash ,LOL
Might just as well swim in the Seine River.
My Army Staff Sergeant father wasn’t too crazy about your Omaha Beach conditions when he was in the first group of Infantry (116th Battalion - 29th Division) who were dropped ashore on D-Day. Enjoy the s-hole you’ve created.
I am NOT your enemy so why do you direct this post personally at me ?
Bulldoze and destroy your coal plants, decommission your nuke sites (mothballing is recoverable, but you fools decommissioned them) and made yourself entirely vulnerable
Following the words of a prepubescent girl with psychological problems and not an ounce of thought on your own
Now, those filthy Americans you despise and hold in utter contempt; will be expected once again to bail your ungrateful asses out of the mess you created
Sorry, we have our own problems.
I wasn’t making a derogatory post to you personally. I sincerely apologize if you inferred that. I was just attempting to make a funny remark to your statement that the French hate water by saying that they apparently hated water in 1944 when the Americans had to come into their beach waters at Omaha and turn the tide of WWII. The French rarely, if ever, take care of their own defense.
Thank you for the apology
CMon Frenchie, fire up those nuke plants.
Destroying Western Civilization, one event at a time.
LOL!
How refreshing to see that woman and people of color not the victims here for a change.
Perrier, Evian? I don’t understand your comment
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