BUND and NABU, together with the Salzgitter-based alliance against Schacht KONRAD, submitted a corresponding application to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment at the end of May 2021.

The environmental associations are calling on the state to abandon the nuclear waste project and pave the way for a transparent and scientifically based search for a site. Due to the enormous environmental problems, the shaft is unsuitable as a nuclear waste repository.

The committee was also informed about the planned reactivation of the Salzgitter-Lebenstedt rail line to Fredenberg. This would also make it possible to connect the planned hydrogen campus.

As is known, as part of the Lower Saxony state government's initiative to reactivate railroad lines, this connection with the Hüttenring terminus, among others, was examined and a positive cost-benefit ratio was determined.

As a supplement to the state's study, the Regionalverband Großraum Braunschweig (RVBS) examined an extension of this line to the John-F.-Kennedy-Straße terminus at Boschwerk in 2016.

In order to be informed about the current considerations of the RVBS, Lord Mayor Frank Klingebiel wrote to the RVBS and received the answer that the RVBS has once again taken up the current framework conditions for implementing the line extension against the background of the planned barrier-free expansion of the Salzgitter-Lebenstedt transport station by DB Station&Service AG.

Other items on the agenda: KVG Braunschweig, street cleaning ordinance, urban redevelopment of the Seeviertel district

The meeting ended with motions and questions from the parliamentary group. The current and detailed agenda can be viewed in the citizen information system at salzgitter.de.