Since 2010 people have been organizing to resist this project. This began with forming local organization, Plateau Survolté (Overvolted Plateau),  to spread information about the transformer and file legal petitions against the project. Unable to stop the project through the courts, locals turned to direct action in December 2014, building a protest site in place of the proposed transformer called L'Amassada. Serving as a social center, L'Amassada would organize resistance against the transformer, but also do-it-yourself (DIY) workshops, cultural events and "The Festival of the Wind."

On 13 June 2018 a Public Utility Declaration was declared by Nicolas Hulot, then minister of Ecological and Solidarity Transition. The land had been "legally" expropriated by the French state, leading to L'Amassada inhabitation at taking on unique ZAD (zone-to-defend’/zone à defendre) qualities, which sought to live collective in resistance against the transformer. The region had already been engulf by wind energy projects since 2000. The energy transformer would allow an increase of solar, wind and other energy infrastructure projects in the region. The transformer was resisted for the overall reason that the proclaimed energy transition and/or "green" and "sustainable nature of the transformer and corresponding projects was, simply put, a lie. The deceptive nature of "energy transition," for residents, was reinforced by investments in fossil fuel industries, the active development of new generation nuclear power plants and other conventional energy extraction projects. The lie of energy infrastructure as ecological sustainability, however, had many consequences. Overall, this would lead to widespread ecological degradation based on three dimensions.

1. L'Amassada opponents recognized the extensive supply chain of hydrocarbon and mineral extraction; processing facilities; manufacturing plants; andtransportation necessary for wind, solar and other energy infrastructure projects. The transformer project opponents saw a rippling effect of socio-ecological destruction being enabled by the transformer.   

2. There would be direct ecological consequences of living around more energy infrastructure as well as wind and solar energy factories. This entailed concerns out deforestation; habitat destruction; land grabbing from locals; health risks; land use/relational change and visual domination of infrastructure.

3. The transformer's increased voltage is related to a transnational energy highway between Europe and North Africa.  This, again, connects to other issues of spreading socio-ecological degradation and conflict related to building the transmission lines and other projects in Europe or North Africa. This is a process currently under investigation.

The are significant concerns voiced by L'Amassada. Opposition to the transformer was subject to systematic harassment, arrests, police surveillance and, eventually, eviction. At 5am on 8 October 2019, about 200 riot police, 15 police vans, 2 armored transport vehicles and two excavators invaded L’Amassada’s hill.  Afterwards, the excavators destroyed this ecological anti-capitalist space. Within 48 hours, the site was fenced off with razor wire, security personnel, 24-hour floodlights, as RTE proceeded to level out the land. Resistance has continued against this imposition. This includes attempts at reclaiming the land, demonstrations and acts of sabotage in, and outside the region. Presently, the struggle continues against the transformer and its corresponding projects in multiple sites across France.

Opposition to the transformer was subject to systematic harassment, arrests, police surveillance and, eventually, eviction. At 5am on 8 October 2019, about 200 riot police, 15 police vans, 2 armored transport vehicles and two excavators invaded L’Amassada’s hill. Afterwards, the excavators destroyed this ecological anti-capitalist space. Within 48 hours, the site was fenced off with razor wire, security personnel, 24-hour floodlights, as RTE proceeded to level out the land. Resistance has continued against this imposition. This includes attempts at reclaiming the land, demonstrations and acts of sabotage in, and outside the region.

Presently, the struggle continues against the transformer and its corresponding projects in multiple sites across France.

For more information see L'Amassada's webiste: https://douze.noblogs.org/soutenir-lamassada/

News articles/Communiques from L'Amassada: https://lundi.am/Occupation-sous-tension