Grünheide becomes a grey factory
Too bad that even before the approval to build the factory, for which Elon Musk's second favourite company is having the 304 hectares of forest cleared - remember: cutting down trees releases theCO2 bound in them, which leads to the so-called greenhouse effect that has recently brought us one storm after another - this has still brought environmentalists to the scene. After all parties except the Greens have found nothing but praise for the construction of a so-called gigafactory in the south-east of Berlin behind the Müggelsee lake, and the state development plan, the approval procedures and the tests according to the Federal Immission Control Act have been hurried through and adapted in order not to give the US company any time to reconsider its project, bat and bark beetle lovers are now getting in the way again and are even succeeding before such a silly court. The many instances through which complaints can run in Germany must be really annoying for US Canadians.
What is an ecologically valuable forest anyway?
The fact that only pine trees grow in Brandenburg because the good oaks and beeches were already burned in the 19th century suggests that the designation as an 'industrial area overgrown with 60-year-old conifers accidentally planted after the Second World War' is perfectly legal and no one wants to claim that pine trees have the same value as German oaks. The fuss is again just political banter by some ecologists who don't want to understand that it is still industry that drives people and not the planet we live on.
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The most tempestuous theories are emerging that the low-pressure systems blown in over the Atlantic, which fuel air traffic from the USA to Europe, have been placed in the stratosphere by Elon Musk himself so that the disturbing forest is cleared in a supposedly natural way by the ladies Sabine, Ciara, Clara or Victoria. At last we know why he founded SpaceX.
That things can hardly be earthly when a legally stipulated environmental impact assessment with public participation is bypassed astounds even experts. The 41 million for the purchase of the site alone cannot have been the deciding factor. After all, that corresponds to a price per square metre of € 13.50, a third of the usual price in Freienbrink, and billionaires don't even call it the shell of a peanut That would be like a normal person buying a 41-cent stamp for a letter and leaving the envelope at the post office counter that was licked at him by the official - except that there are no more post office officials and counters, only postal franchisees.
Der Hieb gegen die beiden letzten deutschen Autobauer ist deutlich
Even if the surprise should therefore not be great, the daily new announcements reminiscent of Donald Duck (the D is to be exchanged for Tr and the ck for mp) are astonishing. If cells were to be manufactured there first, which was decisive for the rapid approval, there are currently no plans even to assemble the batteries. Of the original 304 hectares, not even 50 are now needed.
The resourceful investor from the land of unlimited opportunities (and Canada), however, contrary to general opinion, did not take any special pains to select the location. For his seemingly random preference over the Lower Saxon sites in Emden (next to the existing car factories) and in Emsland near the dilapidated Transrapid site, he simply dug out old plans from BMW, which had already spied out these sites 20 years ago and wanted to build a factory there.
Then the forest could also remain standing
Once you start, you have to keep going' is the motto of the hour. Shanghai is leading the way: within 15 months of laying the foundation stone, the first cars of the urgently needed vehicles rolled off the assembly line. In Germany, the entrepreneur, who comes from South Africa, hopes that the government, which has supported him so kindly and charmingly, will take over the expansion of the infrastructure (in other words, translated into human taxpayer terms: the letter properly stamped, 41 cents, it would be nice). Because the many Teslas that want to roll off the A10 onto German roads from next year onwards have one problem: there are no charging stations, because the motors developed in the USA have a different charging system. It's a bit like the petrol station advertisements of the 80s: Super Ingo, not Diesel - you can put a petrol filler neck into a diesel filler neck, but not the other way round.
In order to continue to secure sympathy, there are plans to incorporate the entire town into the Freienbrink Nord industrial estate and to name it to match the colour of the planned building, in which 60 football matches can be held at the same time - Grünheide will become Graufabrik, still more chic than Fürstenberg, which used to be called Schrottgorod; such a stunt as with Chemnitz (Karl-Marx-Stadt), calling it Teslacity was then too tricky for the good Elon.