Lubmin (dpa/mv) – The application documents for the approval of a planned terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Lubmin will be publicly accessible for a longer period of time. Instead of what was initially announced, they will not only be available up to and including Monday, but for another week. This emerges from the Official Gazette of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Environmentalists and conservationists had previously criticized the short deadline for inspection.
According to the information, the documents that have been available since Tuesday last week can continue to be viewed until November 21 during working hours in the State Office for Agriculture and the Environment (Stalu) in Stralsund and in the Lubmin office. The deadline for submitting objections was also postponed from November 21st to November 28th.
Last week, the German Environmental Aid (DUH) and the German Nature Conservation Union (Nabu) criticized that the documents were not digitally accessible as with other LNG projects. They had also criticized what they saw as the short time available for insight. The company Deutsche Regas, which is behind the project, had referred to security reasons and in this context to the alleged attacks on the Baltic Sea gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2.
Deutsche Regas is planning to put a floating LNG terminal into operation in the Lubmin industrial port as early as the beginning of December. This is also considered ambitious because the approval process is still ongoing. The abbreviation LNG stands for Liquefied Natural Gas. When replacing Russian pipeline gas, Germany relies, among other things, on LNG delivered by ship and is building several terminals for imports.
