Greenpeace has once again protested against the planned Rügen LNG terminal – this time underwater.
The environmental organization Greenpeace used two divers to hinder the laying of a pipeline pipe off Rügen. The action was directed against the terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG), which is planned off the coast of the Baltic Sea island. After several hours, the divers ended their protest and resurfaced voluntarily, as the police announced on Platform X on Wednesday afternoon. According to a spokeswoman for the water police, your personal details should then be recorded and reports should be written.
According to Greenpeace, the diver was in an air bag on a pipeline pipe that was to be lowered to the seabed at the stern of the pipe-laying ship off Rügen. According to the police, the transfer had to be stopped. In the meantime, it was not clear how the action would be ended without endangering the divers’ lives.
Protest against “new fossil infrastructure”
On X, Greenpeace published a video of two activists who said they were three meters under water in an air bag. One of the two said: “While we are heading further and further into catastrophe with the climate, new fossil infrastructure is being built here and excess capacity is being created.” The police said they had already recorded the personal details of around a dozen people who were traveling in rubber boats nearby. Some of them identified themselves as press representatives.
According to a spokeswoman for the water police, the activists may have to answer for trespassing, endangering shipping traffic and violating the right to assembly. The approximately 50 kilometer long line is intended to connect the planned terminal in Mukran on Rügen with the gas pipeline junction in Lubmin.
LNG terminals are intended to secure gas supplies to Germany and other countries after Russia stopped pipeline supplies last year. Systems are already in operation in Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbüttel on the North Sea as well as in Lubmin. The federal government considers the terminal in Mukran to be necessary, citing security of energy supply. Critics speak of unneeded overcapacity and risks for the environment and tourism in the region.
It was not Greenpeace’s first action against the planned terminal. Greenpeace had already occupied the laying ship and disrupted the loading of pipe parts in Mukran.
Source: Stern
