Court ruling | Gas production off Borkum: The left-wing outcry is missing
The success of temporarily halting the laying of a crucial submarine cable to the gas production platform off Borkum should not be overstated: It will delay gas drilling on German territory, but not prevent it. Just at the beginning of this month, the German government reaffirmed its intention to increase the production of climate-damaging natural gas in its agreement with the Netherlands . That the CDU/CSU-SPD coalition would seriously weigh the expected environmental damage against the financial interests of a gas company, as the Oldenburg Administrative Court did, is sadly unthinkable.
Therefore, resistance to the new greed for gas remains important – from outside as well as from within Parliament itself. Because one thing is certain: the government will not move on its own.
The tireless efforts of the German Environmental Aid (DGU), which has been successfully suing for years against gas extraction off the coast of Borkum—and is now doing so again—deserve praise. Activists from Fridays for Future have been demonstrating on the ground against this destructive project for just as long. The Green Party also consistently opposes drilling off the coast of Borkum.
One player, however, remains surprisingly quiet in the Borkum case: the Left Party. Despite gaining significant votes during the election campaign by being the only climate party with a social slant, it must speak out more loudly against new gas projects like the one off Borkum.
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