"We're going back to coal...and it's a failure, because having to restart the plant means that the State can't do otherwise," says the site manager of France's Saint-Avold coal-fired power plant. The site was to close its doors definitively at the end of March due to its CO2 emissions, but, this summer, the government decided otherwise in order to secure the country's electricity supply after the conflict in Ukraine and the setbacks encountered by EDF's nuclear plants. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES