The three states are Brandenburg, Saxony and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Poland's biznesalert.pl website has reported, citing Germany’s DPA news agency.
The Polish government plans to launch the country’s first nuclear reactor in 2033 and has already chosen US company Westinghouse to provide technology for Poland’s first nuclear power plant, biznesalert.pl noted.
Opposition in eastern Germany
Now the three German states have come out against the plan, according to biznesalert.pl.
The website said one of these states, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, has previously helped complete the controversial Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2, sidestepping US sanctions.
Brandenburg’s Department of Consumer Protection has said it will contact Warsaw to register its opposition to nuclear energy, biznesalert.pl reported.
“Due to nuclear incidents in Chernobyl and Fukushima, plans to continue using nuclear energy should be abandoned for the good of the people and environment of all the Baltic Sea countries,” the department said in a statement published on its website, as quoted by biznesalert.pl.
Poland’s plan to build a nuclear power plant in the northern villages of Lubiatowo and Kopalino had been subject to a process of mandatory social consultation, according to biznesalert.pl.
Members of the public were allowed to submit comments until Tuesday, December 13, the website reported.
Bid to help Nord Stream 2
The Polish website also said that, when US sanctions threatened the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern set up a foundation, Stiftung Klimaschutz, in a bid to help wrap up the controversial project.
The move enabled the companies behind Nord Stream 2 to avoid US sanctions because the measures could not apply to entities linked to the governments of US allies, a category that includes Germany’s local governments, according to biznesalert.pl.
(pm/gs)
Source: biznesalert.pl, tvp.info