News Digest Item
22 Jul 2016

“Energy transition: When conservation becomes a stumbling block”

Deutsche Welle

Germany’s transformation from conventional to renewable energies (Energiewende) is creating conflict with nature conservationists, writes Oleg Ködding-Zurmühlen on Deutsche Welle. In Bremerhaven on the North Sea coast, Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) have stopped the construction of an offshore terminal by obtaining a court order, arguing that the port for offshore wind turbines would damage a nearby nature reserve.

Read the article in German here.

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