The construction of a pipeline to the planned first floating LNG terminal in Germany can begin. However, a positive decision on the planning approval process is still pending.
The construction of a pipeline to the planned first floating LNG terminal in Germany can begin. On Friday, the Lower Saxony State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG) granted the relevant approval for the project in Wilhelmshaven, said a spokesman for the authority.
This is to ensure that the terminal can go into operation at the end of the year as planned. The pipeline is necessary so that the liquefied natural gas delivered in Wilhelmshaven can be fed into the German gas network after it has been converted into a gaseous state.
The gas network operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) intends to build the 26-kilometer underground pipeline from Wilhelmshaven to the next connection to the long-distance gas network in Etzel in East Frisia (Wittmund district).
However, the approval does not mean that the planning approval procedure has been approved, the spokesman emphasized. If the procedure is not successful, the operator would then have to dismantle the line that had already been built. That is his entrepreneurial risk. The building permit was given early because otherwise the schedule for the commissioning of the first LNG terminal could not be met.
According to the LBEG, there were 14 objections and an overall statement from the state association for nature conservation in the plan approval procedure, which brings together the recognized nature conservation organizations in the state.
Source: Stern
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