Felled trees lie on the construction site of the Tesla ‘gigafactory’ in Gruenheide in December.
The 60-year-old from Erkner village in the Berlin commuter belt has become one of the faces of the fight against the US auto giant’s first European factory, due to open in the Brandenburg region near Berlin in July. Tesla was forced to temporarily suspend forest clearing last year after campaigners won an injunction over threats to the habitats of resident lizards and snakes during their winter slumber.which could reach up to 3.6 million cubic metres a year, or around 30% of the region’s available supply, according to the ZDF public broadcaster.
Brandenburg’s environment minister Axel Vogel sought to play down the issue, saying in March that “capacity has not been exceeded for now”. In theory, if approval is not granted, Tesla will have to dismantle the entire complex at its own expense. Economy Minister Peter Altmaier agreed in April that his government “had not done enough” to reduce bureaucracy, lauding the gigafactory as a “very important project”.
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