Bavaria’s Prime Minister Söder has suggested thinking about fracking. In Niedersachsen. Those responsible on site are not amused. How could the dispute be resolved? A (not entirely serious) suggestion.
Sulingen/Munich, August 5th. An expeditionary force from the Nuremberg State Civil Engineering Office continued fracking work near Sulingen in the Diepholz district of Lower Saxony on Friday. This weekend, the “Weiß-Blau Sulingen” well is scheduled to produce 1.410 billion cubic meters of gas per day. “I said from the beginning that there should be no fix-and-Foxi solution,” said Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU). “We found a Spider and Batman solution.”
Instead of “yesterday’s fracking”, the focus is on “future’s fracking”, says Söder. The shale gas is not pressed out of deep layers of rock with the usual pressure and chemicals, “but with the controlled use of the most modern explosives”. Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) protested violently against the Bavarian action. “Are you okay?” he wrote on Twitter. Söder then accused Weil of “transparent and cheap Bayern bashing”. He wants to work constructively with Lower Saxony: “In federalism, the small countries must also have a voice. But they must not block the big ones with Tintin thinking either.”
Weil’s criticism that the “constant explosions” would “endanger thousands of Sulingers,” Söder emphatically rejected: “It’s wrong to compulsively prescribe gender.” He also does not share any safety concerns about the drilling: “A brand-new TÜV report confirms that fracking in Sulingen can supply gas in stretched operation until 2047.” The traffic light government in Berlin must finally end its “hesitant tiki-taka policy”: “Now only rum-bang helps.” The fact is that Bavaria now “produces more cubic meters of natural gas every day than the inhabitants of China and Lower Saxony together”.
In order to bring the gas from Sulingen safely to Bavaria, the Nuremberg State Building Authority will start construction of the “Südstream One” pipeline on Monday. The “new gas superhighway”, according to Söder, leads “above ground from Sulingen through the inner cities of Bielefeld and Paderborn to Fulda”, where the line branches off to the Czech Republic “and finally via Karlsbad and Pilsen gently to the Bavarian border”. . Söder also confirmed the CNN report that the Bavarian cavalry “secured” the Haidach storage facility in Salzburg on Friday evening.