“Technology is safe”: Habeck’s plans to store carbon dioxide are met with criticism in the traffic lights. Environmental associations warn of possible dangers.
“CCS endangers our drinking water, requires enormous land use, destroys natural landscapes and requires an enormous amount of energy and materials,” the environmental associations write in their press release. If a fault were to occur in one of the planned storage facilities, there would be a risk of sea water becoming acidified. According to environmental aid, this can lead to “real death zones” for shellfish and corals.