Former GDR border could obstruct power transmission highways
The former border between West and East Germany could become a problem for the country’s much-needed power transmission highways SuedLink and SuedOstLink, Andreas Mihm writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The government of the eastern German state of Thuringia is planning a law to protect the inner-German border strip of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a “national nature monument” and prohibit the construction of power lines in the area, Mihm says. Germany’s economy minister Brigitte Zypries told Thuringia’s government, which is led by the Left Party, she was “surprised” by the decision that puts the Energiewende’s success in jeopardy, he writes.
Read the article in German here.
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