Approval for gas bores in front of Borkum despite protests: Legal steps announced

Approval for gas bores in front of Borkum despite protests: Legal steps announced

Fight against gas drilling before Borkum goes into the next round: Lower Saxony approved teaching drilling under German North Sea - environmental alliance announces new legal steps

The decision of the State Office for Mining Energy and Geology (LBEG) to approved gas drilling in front of Borkum ensures renewed protests and legal steps. The authority granted the Dutch Group of One-Dyas the Mountary permit to carry out guidelines in the German part of the gas field. This approval ensures resentment, especially because the Administrative Court of Oldenburg recently stopped building a nautical cabinet for the energy supply of the boring island.

The decision of the LBEG is criticized by environmental associations such as German Environmental Aid (DUH), the BUND Lower Saxony and the Citizens' Initiative Clean Air Ostfriesland. In this you see a contradiction to the climate goals of the state government and a threat to the Wadden Sea as a world natural heritage. The UNESCO committee has already made it clear that the dismantling of oil and gas is not compatible with the World Heritage Status of the Wadden Sea. The possible effects on the marine environment are classified as serious, since risks such as leaving hydrocarbons, drilling sludge and deposit water as well as earthquakes and land absorbers cannot be excluded.

The environmental alliance announces legal steps against the approval of the LBEG and asks Lower Saxony Minister of Economic Affairs Olaf Lies to withdraw it. Sascha Müller-Kraenner, federal manager of the DUH, emphasizes the importance of the case for the climate-political credibility of Germany. The permission for new fossil funding is questioned. As a consequence, he calls on the Federal Government to intervene and prevent one-dyas from being treated in Lower Saxony.

The CEO of the BUND Niedersachsen, Susanne Gerstner, also condemned the approval of the LBEG. It sees this a contradiction to the climate goals of the state government and a danger to the Wadden Sea. The Citizens' Initiative Clean Air Ostfriesland also points to the existential risks that the islands and their drinking water supply would be exposed to possible earthquakes and soil lowering.

The decision of the LBEG to approved gas drilling in front of Borkum has again led to massive protests and legal steps of environmental associations. The controversial project to carry out guidelines in the German part of the gas field contradicts the climate goals of the state government and threatens the Wadden Sea as a world natural heritage. The effects on the marine environment are assessed as serious, since risks such as leaving hydrocarbons, drilling sludge and deposit water as well as earthquakes and land absorbers cannot be excluded. The environmental alliance announces further legal steps against the approval and calls on the Federal Government to intervene and to protect Germany's climate -political credibility.