Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) inaugurated another floating import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Lubmin on Saturday. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) was also there. According to the company Regas, regular operation of the new plant is now starting.
Scholz released a gas line with a symbolic turn of a wheel on the ship “Neptune”. “We’ll get through this winter, everyone notices it at home, the gas supply is not affected.” There was also no economic crisis, “because we made sure that the energy supply remained secure,” emphasized the Chancellor.
We have a good future because we stick together.
Olaf Scholz (SPD)
“We will continue to expand these capacities here and elsewhere,” Scholz announced, “including with fixed terminals.” Another so-called regasification ship is expected in Brunsbüttel in Schleswig-Holstein as early as next week. “We have a good future because we stick together,” said the Chancellor.
“Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is making its contribution to energy security,” said Schwesig. “This is an important signal for people all over Germany.” The governments would “do everything to ensure that we have enough energy and that energy remains affordable”.
Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) did not take part in the event due to illness. He was represented by the parliamentary state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics, Michael Kellner (Greens).
The first German LNG terminal was opened in Wilhelmshaven in December. Unlike the terminal ship there, which the federal government has chartered, the facility in Lubmin on the Baltic Sea is operated purely privately. Above all, it is intended to supply eastern Germany with up to 5.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually. According to the company, this is enough to cover five percent of German demand.
Lubmin is also the end point of the German-Russian natural gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2, which were blown up by unknown persons last autumn. However, Russia had previously stopped the gas supply.
In the newspapers of the Funke media group, Saxony’s Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) called for Nord Stream 1 to be repaired regardless of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. (AFP)
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