Intense debate about wind energy: Freising district planning committee shows the way forward

Created: 09/24/2022, 18:00

By: Andreas Beschorner

A rough analysis commissioned by District Administrator Helmut Petz is intended to provide initial information as to where wind turbines are best suited in the Freising district.

The report serves as the basis for a detailed site assessment.

(symbol photo) © Lehmann

The planning committee of the district of Freising has now extensively debated the topic of wind energy in a meeting.

Freising

– District Administrator Helmut Petz has been repeating it like a mantra for months: the decision as to whether wind power should be expanded in the district was made in Berlin a long time ago.

Key word: wind-on-shore law.

In order to keep the reins of action, the district administrator appealed that the municipalities could and must now decide where wind power should be expanded.

The route was mapped out on Thursday in the planning committee of the district.

Even if the AfD representative got really angry and scolded.

And he was not alone in his harsh criticism.

The reason for dealing with the topic of wind power in the committee was a request by the Greens in May to have an expert opinion drawn up on the potential of areas on which the construction of wind turbines would be possible.

The law of the federal government and above all a decision of the district administrator had overtaken this application, so to speak.

Because, as the committee reported, Petz had already commissioned a rough analysis of areas where wind turbines could be built in the district.

The finished report is to be sent to the municipalities in November

At the end there should be a three-page report, which should be ready in November and then made available to the municipalities.

After that, a "detailed site assessment" should be carried out, which includes, for example, species protection and other obstacles.

In a third step, according to the plan, the concepts of the municipalities, which still have planning authority, should be taken into account, citizens should be involved and technical discussions held.

All of this, as Petz and the energy officer of the district, Moritz Strey, unanimously emphasized, is a "legal task", a "decision-making aid" for the municipalities.

Actually, everything was clear: Michael Stanglmaier (Greens, "We need significantly, significantly more wind turbines"), Peter Warlimont (SPD, "Now we need momentum and drive"), Susanne Hoyer (FW, "We have to show solidarity because this is a Mayor can't get through alone") and Georg Kroyer (FW, "We have to get away from the old pattern") were fully behind this plan to comply with the law and create the energy transition.

But there was a strong opposition from two district councillors.

Scholz: "Attack on municipal planning sovereignty"

First there was Robert Scholz (FW).

He saw "our beautiful landscape in danger" and saw in the wind-on-shore law an "attack on municipal planning sovereignty" which he considered unconstitutional.

You are being "blackmailed" in a way that spoils the cultural landscape with "monsters" in a way that he has never experienced before - a "coercive measure" by a party that supposedly cares so much about the environment.

But when it comes to money, "then values ​​fall by the wayside," Scholz shot against the Greens.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

And then there was Michael Albuschat from the AfD.

It is "green ideology" to "break the energy transition over the knee".

Wind power and photovoltaics are supposed to generate electricity “by force”.

CO2 is "demonized" even though it "has been around for thousands of years" and hasn't harmed the dinosaurs.

Now "Germany is supposed to save the world," continued Albuschat, prophesying that Germany would become a "highly developed developing country" if things continued like this.

Only a few district councilors were present at the district's climate conference, and hardly any representatives of the Greens.

"They're only there when there's beer signs and chicken," etched the AfD man.

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Stanglmaier defends himself against accusation

Albuschat would rather rely on the latest technology in nuclear power plants, he said when asked by Hoyer about alternatives.

Stanglmaier defended himself against Scholz's accusation that the Greens didn't care about the landscape.

He would like to see how much of the landscape is being destroyed in road construction projects.

The three-stage approach to wind power was approved in the planning committee – with one dissenting vote, that of Albuschat.

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