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Who needs gas more – and who should decide?
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Compression plant of a gas storage facility in Saxony-Anhalt: If the Russian gas supplies fail to materialize, such storage facilities would not help the industry.
(Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa)
Car production, chemical companies, grain mills: when gas becomes scarce, parts of the industry are threatened with standstill. What impact that would have and how this case is being prepared.
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Michael Bauchmüller, Berlin, and Benedikt Müller-Arnold, Düsseldorf
There are stoves in this country that must never go out. Glass melting furnaces, for example. Once put into operation, they run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year – for up to 20 years. And they run on gas. The German Glass Industry Association warns that if the supply were to be interrupted, the glass would solidify in the huge melting tanks. The tubs would be destroyed: millions in damage, poverty, unemployment. “Therefore, the glass industry is dependent on a continuous supply of natural gas,” the association demands.
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