Letter to the Editor – Waiting for the court decision
In the “Volksblatt” of July 29, 2022, under the title “Waiting for a court decision”, it was read that the construction of the industrial feeder could start in 2025 at the earliest. Due to an objection from a resident, the administrative court must now make a judgment. The article above also states that the widening of the inland canal in Haberfeld (section Lettstrasse to Lochgasse) is planned as a compensatory measure. With this project, around 1.0 to 1.2 hectares of top-quality agricultural soil will be lost in the municipality of Vaduz. In Switzerland, this area would be assessed as a crop rotation area and would have to be compensated for at another location by upgrading inferior soil. An example of this is the “Ottenbach bypass” project in the canton of Zurich, which can be read in the magazine “Die Grüne”, issue number 8, August 2022. Not so in Liechtenstein, here soil is required due to the industrial feeder and a project is being considered as a replacement measure drawn drawn, in which valuable soil for food production is lost. Liechtenstein still has enough. How much longer do we in Liechtenstein want to afford this immense consumption of resources? Can we still answer to our descendants? And where are the opinions and statements of our environmental organizations? silence in the forest. Among other things, Andreas Brunhart says the following in the “summer talk” with the “Volksblatt” (July 30 edition): Liechtenstein needs many more companies to use resources more sparingly in production and consumption. Small states have little power in the international arena.
Hans Ospelt, Mitteldorf 8, Vaduz