Status: 02/26/2023 3:26 p.m
At least 2,500 people demonstrated on Rügen on Sunday afternoon against the construction of an LNG terminal off Germany’s largest island.
According to the police, the planned construction of a terminal for liquid gas (LNG) mobilized around 2,500 critics to protest in Baabe on the island of Rügen on Sunday. Around 400 people demonstrated against the terminal in neighboring Sellin on Saturday. Stefanie Dobelstein from the initiative “Liveable Rügen”, which was one of the organizers on Sunday, said that the terminal at sea will be visible from the shore. According to her, four huge ships will be moored there in the future, “each 300 meters long, 43 meters wide and 50 meters high.” This is an industrial plant in an area through which the swarms of herring migrate to spawn in the Greifswalder Bodden.
Conservation threatens to fall by the wayside
In addition, there would be shipping traffic to deliver the LNG. “There are a lot of unanswered questions from our point of view.” Nature conservation and human interests threatened to be left behind. Dobelstein distanced herself from another caller to the demonstration: “We are clearly distancing ourselves from the right,” she emphasized. It is important that the embassy of the people in the region does not suffer as a result. They didn’t want LNG on Rügen.
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