“Estranged” in Lützerath: Tweet shows the “Green double standards at the limit”
In the opinion of the activists who have traveled to Lützerath, the fight for the climate will obviously be decided. Two parliamentarians from the Greens also made an appearance on site. They themselves agreed to the coal compromise. “Green double standards” is the accusation.
With 523 yes to 92 no votes late in the evening of December 1, the German Bundestag approved the traffic light coalition’s draft law to “accelerate the phase-out of lignite in the Rhenish mining area”. All 118 members of the Green Group voted in favor.
Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) and his party friend Mona Neubaur, the deputy prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, had previously negotiated a compromise with the energy company RWE. This provides for an early phase-out of lignite for the year 2030. At the same time, Lützerath is to give way to the coal excavator.
Green MP Nyke Slawik feels “alienated” in Lützerath
The green member of the Bundestag Nyke Slawik now sent a tweet that shows her right on the edge of the demolition line and caused a lot of excitement. The 29-year-old commented: “I’ve become estranged. Alienated by how some are defending the eviction in Lützerath and the deal with RWE.”
A broadside against Habeck? He already reprimanded the protests in the “Heute Journal” on Wednesday evening and repeated: The place was the wrong symbol for him. However, Slawik thinks: “The evictions should be stopped. Solutions should now be sought as to how the coal can remain in the ground under Lützerath.”
She continues: “Arguments along the lines of ‘the courts have decided that RWE has every right to dig up’ are a declaration of servitude to this group. We are the legislator. We make the laws on the basis of which RWE operates.”
As happened on December 1st.
CSU General Secretary Huber: “To rant now against the courts and the police is shabby”
“Green double standards at the limit,” says CSU General Secretary Martin Huber. “Lützerath has to go because the Greens decided it themselves. “They preferred to opt for dirty coal instead of clean nuclear energy,” says Huber to FOCUS online. “To rail against the courts and the police now is shabby.”
“The eviction of Lützerath is not easy for us Greens, but of course we respect the case law,” emphasizes Irene Mihalic, First Parliamentary Secretary of the Green Group in the Bundestag, to FOCUS online. And further: “Nevertheless, I am glad that we are bringing forward the phase-out of coal in the Rhenish mining area by eight years to 2030 and were able to save the five villages of Keyenberg, Kuckum, Oberwestrich, Unterwestrich and Berverath.”
Grosse-Brömer attests Greens “energy policy schizophrenia”
Michael Grosse-Brömer (CDU), Chairman of the Economic Committee in the Bundestag, made it clear to FOCUS online: “The fact that MPs from the Greens in Lützerath are demonstrating against their own decisions illustrates the energy-political schizophrenia of the Greens. And if you distance yourself from your own decisions, then you should certainly distance yourself from the violent criminals on site.”
In addition to Slawik, her parliamentary colleague Kathrin Henneberger is also on site. As a “parliamentary observation”, as she puts it. Your live interview in the ARD lunchtime magazine on Thursday was rather stammered, followed by breaks. Can happen.
Green gives an ARD interview from Lützerath and is completely beside himself
Henneberger was her parliamentary group’s chief negotiator for the law, which was passed with a large majority on December 1st. To be fair, it must be said that the 35-year-old spoke out against the eviction of Lützerath in the late evening debate and called for a moratorium with the aim of preserving the place. Nevertheless, she agreed to the law that was created with her participation.
FDP MP Kruse calls for nuclear power instead of dirty lignite
The energy policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Michael Kruse, says to FOCUS online: “The fact that green members of the Bundestag are demonstrating against the dredging of Lützerath is blatant double standards.”
And further: “We see here the result of political facts that were created by the responsible ministers of the Greens in the federal government and in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.”
The Hamburg member of the Bundestag suggests: “Instead, we should use the major protests as an opportunity to rediscover the order in which nuclear and coal power should be phased out,” said Kruse.
As a transitional technology, nuclear power could help in the short term to drastically reduce German CO2 emissions and, above all, to take the dirty lignite off the grid more quickly.
“If even Greta Thunberg does not understand the German phase-out from nuclear power at this point in time, there is an urgent need for discussion,” explains Kruse. In this way, Germany could take a big step towards an affordable, climate-friendly and secure energy supply in 2023.
It will be interesting to see what Greta says about it in Lützerath on Saturday.
