Overview

• Luisa Neubauer will attend a Fridays for Future protest on August 16 in Reichling at the Ammersee to oppose proposed fossil-gas drilling in the region.
• The activist warns that Bavaria’s economic minister intends to authorize up to ten test-drill sites between the Lech River and the Ammersee.
• Neubauer equates fossil gas with lignite, calling it a “climate killer” that threatens nature, local livelihoods and cultural heritage.
• Her participation follows legal challenges and an Oldenburg court injunction that paused a power-cable installation in the protected Wadden Sea.
• Neubauer also criticizes Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s planned expansion of domestic gas production, including potential drilling in World Heritage areas.