'We want to put a stop to this factory, and with it, we want to put an end of this supposed green image of Tesla.'
When Tesla announced it would build its new Gigafactory outside of Berlin, the decision was met with celebration within the country's parliament. But just a few miles outside of Berlin in the state of Brandenburg — also one of Germany's most impoverished provinces — the decision was met with resistance.
The activists had approached the courts seeking an injunction, but in Germany, once a court decides to grant an injunction or not, the decision is unappealable. In the crowd, there is 37-year-old Jonas Baliani from the 'Interventionalist Left', and like many in attendance, Baliani too wears a few hats.
Baliani says that very soon following the German government's decision to sell the land to Tesla, and without much warning, it all started. Baliani reckons that before allowing migratory birds to become a cause celebre and dragging yet more environmental and wildlife concerns before the courts, Tesla's contractors moved in and chopped down the trees.
"We've been stopped from going to the site due to unexploded bombs and ammunition from the Second World War that might still be there in the area," says Ganschow, "but I think that's a lie." Once the environmentalists had lost the fight to save the trees, they looked at the further environmental and social impact of the project.Brandenburg has faced a drinking water shortage recently.
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