1. Newsletter

    retten gebe. "Gerade dann, wenn nichts mehr zu erreichen ist, ist es notwendig noch mal für alles zu kämpfen", sagt der 45-Jährige... * Klimawandel | Erdgas | Versicherung Allianz versichert Infrastruktur für Import von russischem Gas In der Regel bleibt unter Verschluss, welche Firmen fossile Projekte versichern. Bislang unveröffentlichte Dokumente zeigen: Die Allianz versichert aktuell ein...

  2. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    "die Nato-Truppen Pipelines bewachen müssen, die Öl und Gas transportieren, das für den Westen bestimmt ist". Sie sollen insgesamt die von Tankern genutzten Seewege und andere "entscheidende Infrastrukturen" des Energiesystems schützen. Doch der Versuch, die Welt mit Druck, Erpressungen und "militärischen Lösungen", manchmal auch mit ökonomischen Anreizen, unter Kontrolle zu bringen,...

  3. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    Community wind farms, which we have been planning together with a small community near Ludwigslust for over ten years. Too big to fail apparently applies not only to the financial sector, but also to energy infrastructure. Considering that Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is the federal state with the most lawsuits for failure to act due to delayed approval procedures for wind projects, the LNG approval for Rügen...

  4. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    Nuclear Energy Company (ENEC) therefore aims to become an international player in the field of nuclear energy. The company wants to invest in facilities and infrastructure in various countries through minority investments without managing or operating them. [...]The UAE's share of total foreign direct investment in the UK was 2021 in 0,4...

  5. Newsletter

    Security system. A utopia. No effort should be left unturned to end the war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Ultimately, in addition to the destruction of infrastructure, nature and the extinction of hundreds of thousands of human lives, there is the danger of a third world war with the use of nuclear weapons. This would mean the downfall of everything civilized up to now...

  6. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    it was about funding for power plants or new nuclear technologies... IMHO Nothing new from Brussels. The usual suspects are screaming for more money... * Energy transition | network operator | Infrastructure Is the nationalization of electricity transmission networks inevitable? New power lines are needed for wind and solar power. The costs increased due to the underground cabling. Network expansion stalls...

  7. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    which gets the energy it needs from the forty-year-old Susquehanna nuclear power plant. * Türkiye | Syria | Kurds Turkish air strikes on northern Syria illegal Attacks against civilian infrastructure must be viewed as possible war crimes For months now, Turkey has been bombing hospitals, power stations and water pipes in areas inhabited by Kurds...

  8. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    it is therefore still lacking. Lindner wants to bundle the different competencies within the national fight against money laundering in a new authority with sufficient staff and a modern IT infrastructure. The project still has to be approved by the Bundestag. * Party ban in a defensive democracy AfD ban as capitulation: There needs to be a spiritual change Banning the AfD...

  9. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    This is used to operate generators, which in turn generate electricity. [...] The great advantage of abandoned mines for such projects is that the necessary basic infrastructure - the underground shafts, the lift systems and a power grid connection - already exists there. The deeper the system and the wider the shafts for entering the mine, the higher the...

  10. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    are calling for the approval process for the expansion of the Lingen fuel element factory to be terminated. Russia's explosive role is being kept secret. The Kremlin's access to nuclear infrastructure must be prevented. The nuclear company Framatome wants to build fuel elements for Russian-designed reactors in Lingen under license and with the cooperation of the Russian state-owned company Rosatom...

  11. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    be history. There are already enough good examples. For this we need a lot of private capital, but also targeted and powerful investments by the state in our country's public and social infrastructure - schools, railways, bridges, social housing. Otherwise no company or private individual will invest money to address the investment backlog of the last decades...

  12. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an economy. The state has three levers for this. Firstly, it can subsidize, i.e. subsidize the conversion of factories, infrastructure, the car fleet and houses with a lot of money. That costs a lot of public money. Secondly, it can ban climate-damaging activities. This always bothers some powerful lobby and therefore needs...

  13. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    At the time, the report was commissioned by the BI with the support of individual municipalities and districts. “However, it should be clarified promptly what effort may still be required for a robust transport infrastructure,” was the ESK’s note. [...] "That the BGZ did not carry out such a study before determining the Würgassen location for the LoK as part of the...

  14. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    (e.g. nuclear power plants) that are planned and implemented from above. The FZ Jülich is therefore left with the preliminary decision on the “suitability of land areas for renewable energies and hydrogen infrastructure” as well as the assessment of the “socio-political context and development opportunities”. The five-member national project group is made up of “different...

  15. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    But climate change is warming these permafrost and causing them to thaw. This is already causing landslides, holes in the ground to open up and lakes to overflow. Human infrastructure is also affected: roads, railways and settlements are damaged and sink into the mud... * October 30, 1961 (Tsar bomb AN602) Novaya Zemlya, USSR Nuclear weapons A - Z The detonation of the...

  16. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    American company Westinghouse Electric about the possible construction of an AP1000 reactor. In June, the two companies agreed to study the potential of Bulgaria's industry and infrastructure at the Kozloduy site to support the AP1000 project. Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Farmers | Right-wing radicals | Disinformation |...

  17. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    Salvini wants to change that – and is calling for a new referendum. He already has a location in mind. There are efforts in Italy's right-wing government to return to nuclear energy. Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini named 2032 as the deadline to put a new nuclear power plant into operation for the first time. The leader of the smaller government party Lega also suggested...

  18. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    after the energy supply problems triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to entice governments to make massive, unnecessary investments in the expansion of fossil gas imports and infrastructure. The floating LNG terminal with a length of 280 meters finally reached the port. It was actually supposed to be put into operation on September 15th to...

  19. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    When it comes to the German coast these days, the political debate mostly revolves around the planned liquefied natural gas terminals - whether they are all needed and also how the fossil infrastructure pollutes the environment. It was almost forgotten that Germany's coasts experienced a double whammy in the expansion of offshore wind energy this summer. For a long time there was little change in offshore wind power...

  20. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    should the costs be passed on to all consumers nationwide? Then customers of municipal utilities who have no or hardly any wind turbines in their network would also pay for the expansion of the infrastructure in other parts of Germany through their network fees. The head of the Federal Network Agency recently supported this. * Drinking water | Ocean | Seawater desalination Desalinating water: Oceans - the new source...

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