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Toxic debate for the CSU: wind power? Söder says to Habeck "no, thank you"

2022-01-14T04:42:52.336Z


Toxic debate for the CSU: wind power? Söder says to Habeck "no, thank you" Created: 01/14/2022 05:36 By: Georg Anastasiadis The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder; Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis comments on his refusal to overturn the 10-H rule for the construction of wind turbines. © Sven Hoppe/dpa/Marcus sleep Whoever praises the energy turnaround in Sunday speeches, but then sa


Toxic debate for the CSU: wind power?

Söder says to Habeck "no, thank you"

Created: 01/14/2022 05:36

By: Georg Anastasiadis

The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder;

Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis comments on his refusal to overturn the 10-H rule for the construction of wind turbines.

© Sven Hoppe/dpa/Marcus sleep

Whoever praises the energy turnaround in Sunday speeches, but then says "no, thank you" to the demand for an expansion of wind power in Bavaria, is doing anything but responsible politics.

A commentary by Merkur Editor-in-Chief Georg Anastasiadis.

There are elections in the Free State in autumn 2023, and for the 35 percent CSU it is all or nothing.

Not even a fall into hell for the Bavarian opposition seems to be out of the question at the moment.

The prospects for the energy transition are bleak.

The Green Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck had barely spoken his sentence that the 10-H rule for the construction of wind turbines had to be dropped, when the Munich State Chancellery was already hailing refusals.

Bavaria's topography is simply unsuitable for the expansion of wind power, says Prime Minister Markus Söder.

In Berlin, the surprise should have been limited: the Free State had already said goodbye to the nuclear repository search for the same reason.

For Söder and the CSU, the 10-H debate is just as toxic as the final storage issue once was

For Söder and the CSU, who are frantically trying to crawl up to their disgruntled voters, the 10-H debate is hardly less toxic than the question of final storage at the time. When it comes to saving their beautiful Bavarian state, many citizens don't understand fun. But it's also true: Whoever, like the CSU, praises the energy turnaround in Sunday speeches and then just shouts "naa" when it matters most, undercuts the political claim to shape it. The expansion of wind power in Bavaria has fallen by 90 percent since the introduction of the 10-H rule in 2014. Now, according to the will of the CSU, billion-dollar and climate-damaging gas-fired power plants are to be built all over the country. A disaster.

It is the privilege of citizens to reject nuclear power or the construction of wind turbines and to trust that electricity will come out of the socket.

But responsible politics must do more.

The Germans are currently experiencing the consequences of a coquettish policy that always takes the path of least resistance, be it the nuclear phase-out or wind power: Energy prices are exploding.

After 16 years of government in the federal government, the Union is now happily turning this shambles in front of the traffic light coalition's feet.

Source: merkur

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