Survey: Rejection of Rügen LNG terminals in MV particularly strong

According to a recent survey, the rejection of a planned terminal for liquefied natural gas off or on Rügen in the northeast is particularly pronounced.

Survey: Rejection of Rügen LNG terminals in MV particularly strong

According to a recent survey, the rejection of a planned terminal for liquefied natural gas off or on Rügen in the northeast is particularly pronounced. More than 72 percent of the citizens of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania reject the construction of such systems there. According to the online survey published on Wednesday by the opinion research institute Civey on behalf of the municipality of Binz, it is almost half (48.4 percent) nationwide. Approval for the construction came in MV, therefore, only 17.5 percent and nationwide by a third.

According to an initial survey published in mid-March, not 5,000 but 10,000 Germans aged 18 and over were interviewed for the current survey. This means that the sample is also representative for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In addition, this time the question was not asked about a possible plant "on the coast of Rügen", but "on the island of Rügen".

In the face of great resistance, the Federal Ministry of Economics had distanced itself from the controversial location five kilometers off the coast of Sellin. Rather, according to dpa information, it recently preferred the port of Mukran as an alternative location. Municipalities in the southeast of the island of Rügen have already expressed their rejection.

According to the organizers, a Bundestag petition by the opponents is also becoming more popular. According to this, she recently had 17,000 signers online and 27,000 on paper lists. One is optimistic to reach the quorum of 50,000 in the remaining week. Then the petitioners would have to be heard in a public meeting of the Petitions Committee.

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