The project is “the next environmental scandal in which people and animals lose more living space through massive interventions in the environment,” said the native of Lambach when asked by OÖN. Weinberger had previously sharply criticized the plans in a Facebook post.
As reported, the existing area is to be expanded by around 48 hectares. Most recently, the executing company, Welser Kieswerke Treul, presented a new concept for gentler mining. Conservation organizations had lodged a complaint in 2021 because, in their view, the protection of the endangered yellow-ringed butterfly had not been sufficiently taken into account in the original plans. He lives on the area that is planned for the expansion.
According to Weinberger, the head of hail insurance, the events in Stadl-Paura are exemplary for the political approach: “The decision-makers now have a complete lack of a feeling for the preservation of the natural environment, which is also the living space for all of us,” he says. In times of record heat, this is “a crime against the environment and people,” he says.
It needs a turnaround. “More direct democracy in the form of referendums is needed so that political decision-makers can finally be woken up. If we continue to think of economics as old-fashioned with exclusive maximization of profit at the expense of nature, our children will have little future,” says Weinberger. (vaba)
Source: Nachrichten
