For a long-term stabilization of the water balance in Lusatia with the coal phase-out, the Alliance Greens in Brandenburg, Saxony and Berlin demand a series of measures from the federal and state governments. For example, Leag, as the mining operator and polluter, should be comprehensively involved in the costs of restoring the water balance, according to a position paper presented on Thursday. For long-term financing of the renaturation of the destroyed landscape, the parliamentary groups demand the establishment of a lignite consequences foundation. In their view, the insolvency-proof reserves of the energy company Leag for the reclamation "by far" not enough.
"For the cost of the measures, the mining operators must be asked as polluters to pay. Unfortunately, the mining offices of the states have failed for decades to demand sufficient security deposits from the mining operators," explained Bernhard Herrmann, Saxon member of the Bundestag and member of the Committee for Energy and Climate Protection. In order to secure the monies of the mining operators insolvency-proof, the federal government and the states should now resolutely tackle the establishment of a lignite consequence foundation.
