If I remember correctly, there is a pine monoculture typical of Brandenburg. It’s not a forest, it’s a plantation that would have been harvested in a few years anyway. The ecological damage is therefore very limited.
They don’t do it for those specific trees though. They do it because clearing trees and building a factory changes the region’s water household:
“In one of the driest regions in Germany, too much of the environment has already been destroyed,” she said. “An expansion and thus even more destruction of forests and endangerment of the protected drinking water area must be prevented.”
If I remember correctly, there is a pine monoculture typical of Brandenburg. It’s not a forest, it’s a plantation that would have been harvested in a few years anyway. The ecological damage is therefore very limited.
They don’t do it for those specific trees though. They do it because clearing trees and building a factory changes the region’s water household: