Activist Luisa Neubauer is fighting with other campaigners to preserve the Dannenröder Forest in Hesse.
The black-green government wants to build a motorway there.
The Dannenröder forest is to make way for a motorway.
Activists have set up a camp to protest against clearing.
FFF organizer Luisa Neubauer is angry about the black-green government of Hesse.
Dannenröder Forest
- Many of the pictures from the
Hambach Forest are
still present.
Environmental activists
protested against the deforestation to make way for a coal mining area.
The resistance to the building measures became a symbol of the
climate movement
in Germany.
Now activists are protesting again against a similar project.
In
Hesse
, part of the
Dannenröder forest is to
give way to
a
motorway
expansion
.
On site is co-organizer of the German
"Fridays for Future" movement
,
Luisa Neubauer
.
Climate activist Luisa Neubauer is fighting against her own party
In a post on Monday (September 14th) on Twitter,
Neubauer
said that the 300-year-old
Dannenröder forest
should be cleared for an
expansion of
the A49 motorway.
She describes the plans as a "crazy project" and asks her party colleagues from the Greens * the provocative question "Is it in there, where it says green?"
She calls on both the
black-green state government
and the
federal government
to stop construction.
The
forest
is very healthy and is considered an example of sustainable forestry.
A
clearing
would lead to foreseeable Trinkwasserkontaminierungen so
Neubauer
on.
For a year now, "Danni", as he is also known, has been occupied by activists to protest against the measures.
In the Black-Green Hesse, the 300-year-old Dannenröder forest is to be cleared for a motorway construction starting tomorrow.
I was there today and really wonder how the federal and state governments want to stop this crazy project.
Or whether that is inside where it says # green.
1 / pic.twitter.com/77vQcwtbfR
- Luisa Neubauer (@Luisamneubauer) September 14, 2020
On Wednesday (September 16), numerous
police officers,
supported by forest workers, set out to clear rescue and access routes that were blocked by the protesters' barricades.
The
protest camp
should continue to exist.
Also
clearing work
had not been planned.
According to the
police,
two activists were
provisionally arrested for trying to climb forest vehicles.
Another environmentalist was pushed aside with her self-made high seat.
The
activists
condemned the action as dangerous because the sit-down around the raised stand had not been cleared beforehand.
Who is Luisa Neubauer - a short portrait (video)
Expansion of the motorway through the Danneröder forest: politicians defend the plans
Criticism of the
police operation also
came from the federal chairman of the
Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation
(BUND), Olaf Bandt.
He called on the
police
to "stop the irresponsible action".
He assumes that the
clearing
will start shortly.
He also campaigned for a
moratorium on
the
expansion of
the A49
motorway
.
The
Dannenröder forest
should be "sacrificed for a transport policy planning
dinosaur
".
He announced further actions for the coming week.
11:30 a.m. @bund_net press conference at the forest: #Dannenroederforst must live.
The # keineA49 may not be built.
A49 is not compatible with 2020: Violates climate goals, the goal of stop species extinction & endangers one of our most valuable forests in the middle of forest dieback 2.0 pic.twitter.com/GVaXkXm6H3
- Olaf Bandt (BUND) (@Olaf_Bandt) September 16, 2020
Government politicians, however, defend the construction and the associated
clearing
.
"The region as a whole will move closer to the Rhine-Main area by closing a gap," said
CDU * parliamentary
group leader Ines Claus
.
The green government partner pointed out that the planning was the "result of a long, constitutional and democratic process".
The
Greens
had
spoken
out against the
clearing
, but their position would not have received a majority.
The state administration must implement judicially confirmed decisions, said
Green parliamentary group leader Mathias Wagner
.
The environmental policy spokesman for the
left-wing
parliamentary
group
,
Torsten Felstehausen
, made Transport Minister
Tarek Al-Wazir
(Greens) responsible for implementing a project that was “out of time”.
Al-Wazir's
statement "We simply have to state that we have lost this battle" is "grotesque in view of the need for a
traffic
turnaround
in times of the
climate crisis,
" he said.
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In the case of the Hambach Forest, Luisa Neubauer and her Swedish colleague Greta Thunberg celebrated a success.
And they recently visited Chancellor Angela Merkel together to talk about her open letter to the EU, among other things.
