Application for a temporary injunction in Karlsruhe, Germany: The coal phaseout goes into overtime

The coal phaseout goes into overtime. The power plant operator Steag don’t want to leave the decisions to sit up and pulls in front of the Federal constitutional court. This is his right and no Outcry value is, finally, the statutory phase-out of coal is anchored in a deeper engagement in the – law – of property ownership.

It may be, therefore, only in the interest of all, legal doubts about the admissibility of the prescribed Decommissioning final address. Especially since the experience of the Karlsruhe partially reversed the nuclear fuel teaches expensive that it is not always that water-resistant is, what is the policy of the private company demands.

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However, unlike in the case of the fuel tax, it is not just the question of the legal admissibility, and the power of the Steag suit politically explosive The coal smells Romer from the West hide is also an Overreaching of the operator of a brown coal-fired power plants, which there is, in fact: For the Latter, there is not to tight compensation, the Former must offer at auction to compensation.

And actually climate, more damaging brown coal-fired power plants are, according to the shutdown plan on the web, if the part only 2015 installed blocks of coal verstromern are long gone, or to Gas have converted.

The main argument for this unequal treatment is so well-known, such as the Nagging to the coal exit now alt is just not a hard structural break in the coalfields, where the brown coal not only to generate electricity, but in the days of the build and surrounding counties also is a good job; just not a breeding ground for the Left and the AfD.

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