The village in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania laid its entire future on natural gas. But the new pipeline is off the table, and who knows how much longer Nord Stream 1 will run? Voices from a place that is being shut down by world politics.
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Peter Burghardt, Lubmin
The green gate to Lubminer Hafen opens, and he’s already waiting at the office container behind it. Axel Vogt, the mayor of Lubmin, where the Baltic Sea pipelines Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 arrive from Russia. To his left and right, within sight, are the systems with the gas lines that everyone is talking about. It’s day 57 of the Russian attack on Ukraine, a beautiful morning here in Western Pomerania shortly after the Easter holidays. Sun and clouds, the air smells of the sea, Rügen shimmers on the horizon.