News Digest Item
07 Jul 2016

“Wind power petition failed”

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A petition by the initiative “Save Brandenburg” aimed at throttling construction of new wind turbines has failed, Radio Berlin Brandenburg (rbb) reports. Instead of the necessary 80,000 signatures, the wind power opponents only gathered 45,000 signatures. Their aim was to get the state parliament to debate a new, extended, minimum distance rule between places where people live and the location of wind turbines, and to ban wind parks in forests.

Read the article in German here.

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