The SPD federal chairwoman Saskia Esken defended the liquefied natural gas appointment planned before or on Rügen, but called for better communication with the local people.
You need this system, said Esken in the ARD program “Report from Berlin”. She referred to the high energy requirements and the necessary preparation for the coming winter.
At the same time, against the background of the protests against complaints about the terminal, Esken emphasized that if you proceed faster with infrastructure projects, you have to talk to people “at a higher speed and, above all, proactively”. “We need to talk to people early,” Esken said. In the case of Rügen, with a view to the interaction between the federal and state governments, one might have to look again at “what went wrong”.
In the east of Rügen there are protests against a liquefied natural gas terminal planned for the island. After strong resistance, the federal government backed away from its plans to build a liquefied natural gas terminal five kilometers off the coast of the Baltic Sea resort of Sellin. The Federal Ministry of Economics is now examining other possible locations in the area, including the use of the port of Mukran. But communities in the south-east of Rügen had also opposed this. A location further out at sea has at least already been discussed.
