Exactly thirty years ago, on 8 December 1984, has the so-called protest march the occupation of Stopfenreuther Au near Hainburg in the district of Bruck an der Leitha started and therefore the successful fight against the construction of a Danube power plant. On this occasion, gathered on Monday former representatives of this movement at the historic site and covered with the "Hainburger Declaration" balance.
Concerned about numerous "environmental construction"
The Danube power plant could have been prevented, although, still a lot of "environmental construction" of concern would worry was the tenor of former au activists in a press release of the environmental federation. Urgent long been identified environmental problems should now be solved quickly and not another thirty years will be postponed. In the statement signed by Gerhard Heilingbrunner, Doris Holler Bruckner, Bernd solder, Freda Meissner-Blau, Wolfgang Rehm and Günter Schobesberger a statement "ambitious but feasible" road map for the implementation of pending action to 2020 was presented.
This involves, among other things, the fulfillment of the climate targets the reduction of energy consumption and energy efficiency measures, a shift in transport and the expansion of the National Park Donau-Auen. Climate policy is still a challenge remains: "Austria is in default, to meet climate targets and the urge to continue against the facts hydropower obligate solution - as it currently happens for example in Tirol - to present, requires rapid turnaround," Jason said, solder, which was in 1984 in the negotiating team with the federal government and later first national park planner.
Hainburg as hope for a real energy policy
"Hainburg was the hope for a real energy revolution. For this we are still fighting even after decades, "said Doris Holler Bruckner, which at that time was involved in the National Park. It need 100 percent renewable energy from solar, wind and biomass - in a word, a total energy system. Wolfgang Rehm of the environmental organization VIRUS not only saw action when it comes to traffic, but also at the Donau-Auen: "The future of the National Park is not secured as long as effective measures to prevent the erosion of the Danube sole and against siltation in the meadows by the material in the storage spaces the Donaukraftwerke missing. In particular, additional sediment additions and participation of all producers must be rapid. "
Gerhard Heilingbrunner, former co-founder of Konrad Lorenz referendum and now honorary president of the environmental federation, added: "Still the Donau-Auen does not have the intended area of 11,500 hectares and the March-Thaya floodplains are not adequately protected." Legal policy demands must finally become law. These advanced party rights would include within sectoral environmental practices such as conservation and water right to the fulfillment of the Aarhus Convention by Austria was required.
"Scandalous conservation decisions" as the repeat of Hainburg should not have. Behind the Hainburg movement stood also calls for more direct democracy, the abolition of official secrecy, open-endedness and public participation in environmental practices "instead of Klagsdrohungen against environmental Committed," said Heilingbrunner.
Platform with chronology and original documents
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Donau-Auen National Park last week has a new Infocenter into the net. In the web archive also contains, inter alia, a chronology and original documents to the events around the time planned construction of a Danube power plant.
Time History seen the new platform includes information about the former protection efforts of various actors in the run-up to the establishment of the national park in 1996, it said in a press release. Emphasis was placed on the events in winter 1984.
