The pipeline layer “Castoro 10” has been lying in the Greifswalder Bodden for more than two weeks. He is supposed to build the connection for the planned Rügen LNG terminal. Now came visits from environmental activists.
After the start of a Greenpeace protest against the Rügen LNG terminal, the police in the Greifswald Bodden continue to try to get activists off a pipeline-laying ship. A good dozen activists were recently on the “Castoro 10,” a police spokeswoman said on Thursday afternoon.
In addition to a helicopter, special forces are also on duty to get activists off a crane. According to her, activists had also anchored themselves in a pipeline tube.
Activists had attached a banner with the inscription “Gas destroyed” to a loading crane on the ship. According to a police spokeswoman, the water police, the Anklam police station, the criminal police, the federal police and the riot police are on duty. Activists who were traveling in rubber boats were taken into custody to record their personal details. Possible criminal offenses include dangerous interference with shipping traffic, coercion and trespassing.
Greenpeace itself had announced that around 30 activists were involved on site.
The “Castoro 10” is actually intended to lay the connection pipeline for the Rügen LNG terminal and is currently located off Lubmin. The approximately 50 kilometer long line will run through the Bodden, around the southeast of Rügen to Mukran in the north of the island. Here, two special ships are supposed to bring the LNG delivered by ship back into the gaseous state and feed it in. Greenpeace criticized the planned terminal as harmful to the climate and spoke of unneeded excess capacity.
Source: Stern
