The stop of the grubbing-up for the Tesla factory in Brandenburg leads to a new trouble: The Greens criticize the environmental protection associations.

the harvesters need to do in green Heath, first break, enraged the Green. Photo: Annegret Hilse/reuters

BERLIN taz | Influential greens and the nature conservation associations work because of the temporary stops of the clearing for the construction of the Tesla factory in Brandenburg attacked. Several representatives of the party joined on Tuesday the CDU and the FDP. They criticized the initially successful lawsuit of the Green League of Brandenburg and the Association for the preservation of the landscape and protection of species in Bavaria against preparatory measures of the U.S. electric car company's so-called Giga-Factory to the Southeast of Berlin.

At the weekend, had stopped by the upper administrative court of Berlin-Brandenburg, the Felling on the 90-acre Tesla property. By the summer of 2021 are in green Heath for up to 500,000 electric cars per year are produced. The authorities had allowed to clear the forest, although the factory is still no final approval. A prolonged stop could endanger the schedule, because only until the end of February of the trees felled may be, and then again in the fall.

"does not always have To be against all", criticized the green economy of Berlin Senator for Ramona Pop the environmentalists in the conservative newspaper world. It was "far-fetched, to explain a Pine plantation a forest", to want him in court to protect stressed Pop. The "investment in the future of Tesla" should be swiftly made possible. To make the pine forest "to the field of battle, is absurd," said Oliver Krischer, Vice-Chairman of the Greens group in the Bundestag.

"You don't need to. always against everything"

The Green League is afraid of all the potential impacts of the factory on the drinking water supply of the Region According to planning documents, the factory should you temporarily need as much water as a town of 70.000 inhabitants. She fears, moreover, a drastic increase of transport on Rail and road, because the factory needs to be supplied and the need to get up to 5,000 employees there. The rights of action of the associations are covered by EU law, said Green-League-Chairman Heinz Herwig Mascher. "We think very carefully about which processes we get," he said. "It is, therefore, that the procedure is legal." This week the court will decide finally.

"Each new project is now complained of, and questioned," said however, the head of the "Mittelstand" and economic Union of the Union, Carsten Linnemann (CDU). If Germany does not want to fall behind in international competition, would have the approval process speeded up and simplified. "It also includes" collective actions " to restrict." Actions should only be possible if the interests of the Association would be affected, or there had been a participation in the approval process. In Brandenburg the CDU parliamentary leader Jan Redmann threw the Green League, to need the right of action to miss.

Already in the autumn, the CDU, had proposed that the Association's right of action limit. Associations should only be allowed to sue if the interests of the relevant Association are directly affected. "We have to accelerate plans," it said at the time, on the part of the German environmental aid. "But without the rights of citizens and associations off." The reason: "The citizens have to be involved in projects."