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Berlin (Germany): “Bauer AG” drilling crane set on fire for its participation in THE LINE

20 August 2024 Act for freedom now!

“Bauer AG” drilling crane set on fire for its participation in THE LINE

Bauer AG is a highly specialized civil engineering company which, through its involvement in gigantic infrastructure and construction projects all over the world, is complicit in the destruction of habitats and the expulsion of their inhabitants. The advance of Bauer AG’s drills and diggers into the most remote parts of the planet never bodes well, and often heralds the end of the diversity of flora and fauna in favor of a gray misery of steel and concrete.

“What we do today determines what tomorrow’s world will look like”.

This seemingly innocuous statement by the CEO of Bauer AG represents a serious threat to everything that doesn’t fit in with the Western idea of progress, or doesn’t want to submit to it. For wherever the much-vaunted conquests of civilization extend, there always arises a colonial mentality that wants to quantify every living thing in terms of its utility, and is obsessed with the will to dominate and control the wild and the unpredictable. But it doesn’t always go unanswered. Recently in Canada, the staunch opposition of the Wet’suwet’en nation to the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which once again crosses their territory, has drawn attention to Bauer AG’s involvement in this crime. But Bauer AG is not interested in any of that. It prides itself on being responsible and sustainable, reducing its environmental impact and carbon footprint through innovative solutions and digitalization.

But when the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia waves his dollars around and makes an appeal in the name of energy transition, they flock to the scene. It’s the nightmare-come-true of a dystopian smart city called THE LINE, along with coveted green hydrogen and AI-driven flying taxis. THE LINE is a gigantic urbanization and construction project for a futuristic new city which, when completed, will stretch 170 km inland from the Red Sea and be home to up to 9 million people, 200 meters wide and 500 meters high. Billed as the first major carbon-neutral city, the construction project is attracting international companies and investors, and aims to set the standard for future urban planning methods. Smart, connected, ecological. Right up there with the Western zeitgeist. What’s more, this Smart City is set to promote hydrogen, an important energy source for the energy transition.

Several major European companies have already won large-scale contracts for THE LINE, including ThyssenKrupp, Volocopter, Bauer AG, Veolia, Siemens Energy, Keller Grundbau GmbH, Kühne+Nagel, Trewi, Navia and FCC. With a contract value of 240 million, Bauer AG is responsible for deep drilling. With such a sum, it’s easy to overlook the fact that most migrant workers are brutally exploited on site. In order to implement this project, the Saudi government has also forcibly displaced thousands of indigenous Howeitat people who have lived there for centuries. Anyone who resists is arrested, tortured or murdered. Energy transition at its best. Even the much-vaunted technological innovations are no longer so enchanting when you consider that they implement digital surveillance systems to identify political dissidents and enable widespread social control. At the same time, absurd amounts of resources are being used to realize this madness, and it has to be assumed that the 170 km-long smart city monster will massively impede the usual migratory movements of the animal world and unbalance local flora and fauna.

All in all, THE LINE is a total ecological disaster and a human tragedy on every level. Perhaps the only silver lining is that the lies of the energy transition reveal themselves with examples like this. Ultimately, it’s nothing less than the reshaping of industrial and technological exploitation to serve the constant of economic growth and profit maximization. Fire and flames to all those who take part in it and enrich it!

That’s why, on the night of July 12, we set fire to the hydraulic cables of a Bauer drilling crane at a Köpenickerstrasse construction site, in Berlin’s Mitte district.