Overview

• The resolution rejects ongoing and future gas drilling across the entire district after a 24–17 vote.
• The county will not sell, lease or grant easements on its land for fossil exploration or extraction and affirms a renewables-focused energy mix.
• An exploratory well at Reichling in the Kinsau 1A concession reached about 3,400 meters and was completed without reported complications or environmental damage, according to the operator.
• Technical and laboratory analyses of the well are still pending, though the company reported visible hydrocarbons and traces of oil in the drilling mud pits.
• Environmental groups including Greenpeace and Bund Naturschutz praised the decision after sustained protests, and the motion was introduced by the CSU, Vereinigung Unabhängiger Bürger and the Greens.