A small orchard on the banks of the Elbe River in northern Germany, overgrown and circled by seagulls, holds the key to the country’s Russia-free energy future.
The orchard, close to the city of Stade, will soon be cleared to make way for a €1bn liquefied natural gas terminal, one of three planned that should help Germany cut its dependence on Russian gas.
“The location is perfect,” said Jörg Schmitz, senior LNG project director at chemicals group Dow Germany, gesturing to the wide sweep of the Elbe, the North Sea to the west and the port of Hamburg, Germany’s largest, to the east.
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