Status: 10/15/2022 3:40 a.m
The Greens support a temporary reserve operation of the two southern German nuclear reactors. This was decided late in the evening at the party conference in Bonn. Despite the large majority, there is great resentment about the decision.
Climate activists are demonstrating, not in front of the RWE headquarters, but – of all places – in front of the entrance to the Green party conference.
Because I am very disappointed in the politics of the Greens. I have been involved in environmental politics for years. And it’s very disappointing that the Greens have caved in so now.
They don’t want to allow another village in North Rhine-Westphalia to be excavated for lignite, and even two nuclear power plants in the south to continue operating for the time being. This is also quite controversial within the Greens. And so says co-boss Ricarda Lang:
There are demonstrations, there are protests out there. And I like that. Because it shows: We Greens, we stand criticism, we enter into discussions with those who see things differently.
Worry about getting off the exit
For example – now inside the hall – with Karl-Wilhelm Koch, one of the advocates of the pure green doctrine. Shut down all nuclear power plants by the end of the year. No extension, not even for a few months: “Exit from the exit – not again. It stays at December 31, we Greens stand by our word. And there is no compulsion to change that.”
Maybe so, thinks Robert Habeck. When everything comes together in winter. No wind, no sun, no gas from Russia, no nuclear power in France. In extreme emergencies – according to the application of the Green Federal Executive, a temporary reserve could be justifiable.
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Habeck is fighting on two fronts. On the one hand, he advocates allowing this stretching operation in an emergency. On the other hand, he promises that he will not accommodate Christian Lindner or the Union any further.
Are you going back to nuclear power? That’s wrong. And there’s no way that’s going to happen to us. Not with the federal government, not with the Greens in the federal government, and not with Steffi and not with me.
Steffi Lemke, the Green Environment Minister. Who openly admitted: “What the federal executive committee has presented is an impertinence. And now I’m standing here in front of a green federal party conference and I’m campaigning for this impertinence.”
“The operational reserve is not the original green line,” Ricarda Lang, chairwoman of Alliance 90/The Greens
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Red lines should mitigate this impertinence a little: “Not a single fuel rod, that must be our standard. Thank you very much,” and: “The nuclear phase-out is fixed. And on April 15 it will be over.”
Both were there at the end, in the application of the federal executive board. And then the delegates agreed. With a heavy heart. But with a large majority.
The nuclear decision and the others, that really breaks my heart. But we also have to make policies that are adapted to the shitty reality we have right now. And that’s what we’re doing right now.