Before a prominent politician visit, climate activists occupied the construction site for the LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven. The authorities were prepared for the action – but at a different location.
Several hundred climate activists protested in Wilhelmshaven against the planned import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG). The group “Ende Gelände” announced that the construction site was occupied on Friday morning.
This is an act of civil disobedience “against the planned expansion of fossil gas infrastructure”. The activists sat on construction vehicles and building materials, manned a crane and hung up banners.
The police spoke of around 300 participants at two locations: the port of Jade-Weser-Port and Hooksiel, where a pipeline to connect to the gas transmission network is to be built. “We are currently checking which group the demonstrators belong to and what the background is,” said a police spokesman in the morning. The demonstration was not registered.
The Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior announced that the activists were participants in a climate protest camp in Hamburg from the left spectrum, who set off in several buses in the morning. A demonstration was originally registered in Stade, where an LNG terminal is also to be built, but the buses then went to Wilhelmshaven. The police are still in action with sufficient forces.
In the afternoon, Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil and Energy Minister Olaf Lies, in their function as SPD state leaders, wanted to visit the LNG construction site together with the CEO of the energy company Uniper, Klaus-Dieter Maubach. On the fringes of another meeting, Lies announced that despite the protest action, he wanted to go to Wilhelmshaven on Friday as planned. “Hidden is not,” said the SPD politician.
Source: Stern
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