Opposition to wind power in Saarland state election campaign
tageszeitung (taz)
Oskar Lafontaine, a prominent German politician and Left Party leader in the small German state Saarland, frequently makes his opposition towards rapid expansion of wind power a campaign topic for this week’s state elections, writes Christoph Schmidt-Lunau in tageszeitung (taz). “As long as there is no storage, as long as there is no grid to cope with the electricity, it is technical nonsense that causes devastation in forest and landscape,” said Lafontaine in a TV campaign debate.
Find the article in German here.
For background read the CLEW article Energy policy to play "no role" in Saarland state elections and the CLEW factsheet Facts on the German state elections in Saarland.
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