Overview

• The Administrative Court of Oldenburg granted a provisional injunction at the request of Deutsche Umwelthilfe, halting the planned laying of a power cable to the Borkum gas platform.
• The court found that exemptions from conservation rules for passing through a UNESCO-protected reef area were likely unlawful and that potential environmental damage outweighed project delays.
• One-Dyas has suspended all cable works until the permits are fully reinstated and a final ruling is issued in the main proceedings.
• One-Dyas and the Lower Saxony water and conservation authority NLWKN can appeal the decision, leaving the project’s timeline in legal limbo.
• The platform, part of a German-Dutch treaty fast-tracked to bolster post-Ukraine gas supplies, is designed to run on power from the nearby Riffgat wind farm and produce about 0.5 billion cubic meters of gas annually.