Hydraulic engineering lobby goes all out:
Hydraulic engineers are demanding maximum expansion of the Oder and the parallel Hohensaaten-Friedrichsthal waterway
Regardless of the increasing budgetary needs, especially in the traffic budget of the toll-damaged Transport Minister Stolpe, the lobby of the Wasserbauer is calling not only for the expansion of the Hohensaaten-Friedrichsthaler waterway for coasters, but also for the expansion of the Stromoder, which runs parallel at a short distance.
While the Brandenburg side would like to expand Schwedt into the Brandenburg high-sea port, the Polish side, with its somewhat unclear program ODRA 2006, mainly wants to channel the Stromoder.
As a solution to the conflict of interest, the hydraulic engineering lobby proposes in a new campaign that both sides meet their wishes and that the Hohensaaten-Friedrichsthaler Wasserstraße be expanded as much as possible according to Brandenburg ideas, as is the river or Polish.
Apart from the maximum destruction of the ecosystem, these proposals are also senseless and irresponsible from an economic and budgetary point of view. There is not even a rudimentary economic need for these significant interventions in nature. Federal Transport Minister Stolpe has therefore always categorically refused to commission a current cost-benefit analysis, i.e. an economic needs study, from an independent, internationally recognized economic research institute. He knows why. The result would deprive all of his expansion plans the economic basis.
The Association of Friends of the German-Polish European National Park Unteres Odertal e. V. urges that the existing traffic routes, especially in the sensitive Lower Oder Valley, only be expanded according to a proven need, either the river or the Hohensaaten-Friedrichsthal waterway, which runs at a distance of a few hundred meters, and senseless prestige projects for which Germany is at the expense of the coming generation will have to give up even more.
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