"A green minister negotiated that": Greens get into trouble in a Lützerath interview with ARD
Created: 01/12/2023 09:52
The member of the Bundestag Kathrin Henneberger in an interview with the ARD.
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Lützerath dilemma for the Greens: The eco-party is committed to climate protection on site, but is responsible for the current situation itself.
A member of the ARD was also confronted with this.
Lützerath – German politicians are looking at the district of a 40,000-inhabitant town in North Rhine-Westphalia: Lützerath.
The police there began clearing the site in the morning after climate activists had blocked access to the site in the Rhenish lignite mining area in the past few weeks.
The fact that "Lützi" is being cleared is also due to green politics in Germany.
The ARD confronted a Greens member of the Bundestag with this on Wednesday - and thus brought her to an explanation.
ARD moderator gets the Greens into trouble with their own politics
In the morning, the member of parliament Kathrin Henneberger was switched on live from Lützerath in the ARD morning magazine.
Before that, moderator Sascha Hingst recalled the Green Party's election program.
It says: "No one should have to leave their home for an opencast mine." However, the energy company RWE wants to excavate the coal lying under Lützerath - for this the hamlet in the area of the city of Erkelenz is to be demolished.
The economics ministries led by the Greens in the federal and state governments of North Rhine-Westphalia had agreed with the energy company RWE to phase out coal by 2030.
In addition, five already largely empty villages at the Garzweiler opencast mine in the vicinity of Lützerath are to be preserved.
Hingst wants to know what Henneberger says about the promise.
The member of the Bundestag - once an activist herself - says: "With the five villages and farms, we have saved the homes of around five hundred people." Then she describes the case of a man who had to leave his homeland.
"Eckardt, who lived here in the farmhouse until recently, was forced to move out.
This is due to mining law.
The mining law does not know the climate crisis.
That's a huge problem." The 35-year-old also states: "The group has too much power."
Henneberger repeatedly falters in her answers, even when the moderator says: "The fact is that a green minister negotiated that."
We have an entire problem.” The climate crisis is not yet being dealt with appropriately “in its urgency”.
When it comes to the next question about nuclear power plants, Henneberger can only answer hesitantly.
“Hypocritical” Greens policy?
“This interview speaks for itself”
The interview was criticized on Twitter.
For example, the FDP MP Linda Teuteberg says: "Poetry slam gestures don't help.
It would be funny if it weren't so damn serious." The CDU MP Serap Güler writes of "green activism vs. green realpolitik" and says: "It becomes particularly problematic when MPs have to explain that Greens are not only in many states, but also in the federal government and have to make decisions that do not please everyone in their own base.” The Berlin CDU politician Dirk Stettner attested the Greens a “hypocritical” policy.
The Economic Council of the CDU summed up: "This interview stands for itself."
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Habeck and Nouripour defend Green policy - criticism from climate activists
Ex-party leader Robert Habeck defended the agreement to phase out coal in the west and thus the abandonment of the town of Lützerath.
"It's the right decision, it's a good decision for climate protection," said the Economics Minister in Berlin on Wednesday.
"It will end bindingly the dredging in the Rhenish area from 2030. And five villages where people live will be kept."
The current co-head of the eco-party also defended the current policy.
The dismantling is part of a “compromise” that he can “wear really well”.
As a result, climate activists criticized the Green course towards our editorial team.
A spokesman for the "Lützerath Leben" initiative rejected Nouripour's account in the strongest possible terms at the request of
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- and accused the Greens of having their position "dictated" by RWE.
"The role of the Greens at this moment is to sell the population a greenwashing deal," said activist Florian Özcan.
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