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Demonstration on Rügen against LNG – Luisa Neubauer there
Climate activist Luisa Neubauer demonstrates against the planned LNG plant on the island of Rügen. photo
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The LNG plans have been met with fierce resistance on the island for months. The climate activist Luisa Neubauer speaks of “superfluous gas” in Binz.
Dozens of demonstrators, together with the climate activist Luisa Neubauer, protested on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen against a planned terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG). “People are talking about liquid gas here, but we call it superfluous gas, because that’s exactly what it is,” said Neubauer in Binz.
The infrastructure planned here is not needed for the German or European energy supply. “The planned LNG terminals will not solve crises. They produce crises.” The federal government’s plans lead to new dependencies on fossil energy and stand in the way of a climate-friendly future.
The LNG plans have been met with fierce resistance on the island for months. Critics fear for the environment and tourism, which is particularly important for Rügen. Most recently, the federal government had confirmed the need for the terminal. Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) had spoken of the need for a “safety buffer”.
Germany has been pushing ahead with the expansion of infrastructure for importing liquefied gas by ship since last year in order to compensate for the lack of Russian energy supplies from pipelines. The first terminals are already in operation.
Neubauer rated the announced withdrawal of the energy company RWE from the Rügen LNG project as a success of the protests. RWE was commissioned by the federal government to implement it. A few weeks ago, RWE announced that it would hand over the project to other companies in the course of the year because it was not part of its core business.