FDP initiative triggers new debate about gas production

Test drilling on Usedom

Fracking is frowned upon in many places in Germany.

(Photo: IMAGO/Panthermedia)

Berlin A debate has broken out in the traffic light coalition about the use of domestic gas reserves in the energy crisis. The reason for this is a move by Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner.

In view of the crisis, the FDP chairman wants to put the ban on natural gas production in Germany through so-called fracking to the test. “We have significant gas deposits in Germany that can be extracted without endangering drinking water,” Lindner told the newspapers of the Funke media group. The promotion is also responsible under ecological conditions. It would be wrong to refrain from fracking because of ideological commitments.

The SPD energy politician Nina Scheer rejected Lindner’s initiative. “Anyone calling for national fracking today is calling for expensive bad investments with serious competition for use,” Scheer told the Handelsblatt. “The land and available financial resources are needed for renewable energies, storage and grid infrastructure, instead of backward-looking investments in fossil energy production.”

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