5,000 demonstrate against nuclear waste dumping in north Germany
Diet Simon, translatinnbg local activists | 17.10.2007 02:40 | Ecology | Social Struggles | World
In north Germany more than 5,000 people (police say 2,000) took part on Saturday 13 October in a demonstration against a planned final nuclear dump in the former Schacht KONRAD iron ore mine in Salzgitter.
The demo was called by an action coalition of environment groups, trade unions and initiatives.
The demo was called by an action coalition of environment groups, trade unions and initiatives.
Assembled were 70 and 80 year olds who’ve fought the project for decades, and very young pupils only now confronted by it. Many bands played free of charge.
A local activist said: “It can’t be taken as read that so many people stay involved for so long and young people keep on coming in.”
The area is in the electorate of the environment minister, Social Democrat Sigmar Gabriel, who opposes the dump.
In April the Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) had rejected objections to the final repository plans.
Several litigants have asked the country’s highest court, the Federal Constitutional Court, to judge the case. They have yet to hear whether it will.
For a report in German with more detail on the demo see
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/10/196995.shtml.
For a report in English on public hearings about the proposed Schacht Konrad project see http://www.ratical.org/radiation/NGP/NoFinalSolu.html.
Other sites of interest in this context:
http://www.bfs.de/en/transport/faq/faq_konrad.html/#1, http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2007/02/362354.html
A local activist said: “It can’t be taken as read that so many people stay involved for so long and young people keep on coming in.”
The area is in the electorate of the environment minister, Social Democrat Sigmar Gabriel, who opposes the dump.
In April the Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) had rejected objections to the final repository plans.
Several litigants have asked the country’s highest court, the Federal Constitutional Court, to judge the case. They have yet to hear whether it will.
For a report in German with more detail on the demo see
http://de.indymedia.org/2007/10/196995.shtml. For a report in English on public hearings about the proposed Schacht Konrad project see
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/NGP/NoFinalSolu.html. Other sites of interest in this context:
http://www.bfs.de/en/transport/faq/faq_konrad.html/#1, http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2007/02/362354.html
Diet Simon, translatinnbg local activists