On Sunday night, September 9, the waxing moon had just formed its first quarter over Lake Starnberg, some twenty kilometers southwest of Munich. Was this enough for the fish to discern the thick smoke coming from the wind farm that has been standing for ten years in the forest above the village of Berg, on the right bank of the lake? In any case, they won’t breathe a word to the investigators from the Upper Bavarian Criminal Investigation Department, tasked with solving the arson attack on one of the giants planted there at around 3am. Firstly, as a matter of dignity. Secondly, as a matter of principle, the limpid waters of the Ice Age have seen many others, such as the lifeless body of King Ludwig II, or the first summers of his cousin “Sissi”, before she was lightened of her burden on the shores of another lake by the sharpened blade of an anarchist.
What happened on that cold autumn night in the forest between a freeway and the eastern shore of Lake Starnberg? According to Bürgerwind Berg GmbH, the engineering office in charge of technical support for the Alpine wind farm operator, a first warning message was sent to them by the safety sensors on a wind turbine, followed by a second at around 3:59 a.m., which recited in code: “smoke in the nacelle”. In other words, in the machine room, some 150 meters up on the rotor side. The facts became much simpler as soon as the sleuths were able to get to the scene. According to the police report, unknown persons attacked the massive door of the wind tower with an angle grinder, cutting an opening of “40 by 60 centimetres”, before introducing “previously ignited objects” inside the structure.
The uniforms also pointed out that “these accelerants were extinguished, however, before the fire spread further to certain [other] parts of the power plant, which would have caused millions in damage”. But friends of industrial wind turbines shouldn’t cry victory too soon, since the incendiary devices did their job well enough to bring the Bavarian wind turbine to a forced standstill for several days, with a door to replace, installations completely covered in soot, and damage finally estimated at 10,000 euros.
And given the noble silence of the fish in Lake Starnberg, why not conclude with a look at the first mayor of Berg, whose municipality owns shares in the wind power company. The dejected Berg mayor made his own contribution to the heated debate, telling the local press: “It’s unbelievable. It takes a lot of criminal energy to pull that off. When a house is burgled, the criminals take something with them. In this case, all they wanted to do was destroy. We’re desperately trying to make a success of the energy transition and avoid climate catastrophe, and here we are being derailed like this.”
“Criminal energy” that sets out to identify the structures of the enemy vs. “green energy” that continues to ravage the planet to fuel techno-industrial civilization – this is certainly a hotly debated topic, from which even a mayor perched deep in wealthy Bavaria can no longer escape…
[Synthesis of Bavarian regional newspapers (Süddeutsche Zeitung & Merkur),
via: sansnom
Translated by Act for freedom now!