5,000 protest nuclear waste dumping in north Germany

Assembled were 70 and 80 year olds who’ve fought the project for decades, and very young pupils only now confronted by it. Many bands played free of charge.

A local activist said: “It can’t be taken as read that so many people stay involved for so long and young people keep on coming in.”

The area is in the electorate of the environment minister, Social Democrat Sigmar Gabriel, who opposes the dump.

In April the Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) had rejected objections to the final repository plans.

Several litigants have asked the country’s highest court, the Federal Constitutional Court, to judge the case. They have yet to hear whether it will.

For a report in German with more detail on the demo see http://de.indymedia.org/2007/10/196995.shtml. For a report in English on public hearings about the proposed Schacht Konrad project see http://www.ratical.org/radiation/NGP/NoFinalSolu.html. Other sites of interest in this context: http://www.bfs.de/en/transport/faq/faq_konrad.html/#1, http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2007/02/362354.html