“Kerosene discharges are not trivial!”, criticizes the mayor of the municipality of Landstuhl and complains that Mainz minimizes the incidents. After a British cargo plane sprayed 89 tonnes of kerosene over the Palatinate Forest on Friday evening en route from Hahn to India, no traces of fuel reached the ground at the benzene measuring points and carbon compounds, according to the Ministry of the Environment. .
Peter Degenhardt, on the other hand, refers to a study by the Federal Environment Agency on the subject, which came to the conclusion that jet fuel discharges at least “may have some negative effect that should be avoided”. “But despite the support of almost all parliamentary groups on this issue, the country continues to minimize indulgences.”
“Why always above the region?
For him, it’s about whether kerosene drains are necessary, says the CDU politician: “But above all, I wonder why this always has to happen on the same area to which the Palatinate Forest belongs.” If according to statements from Mainz no kerosene gets to the bottom, then the fuel could theoretically be dumped anywhere. “And not primarily in areas that are already suffering severely from the military.” On the one hand, he worries about the health of the local population. In addition, the president of the Palatinate Forest Tourism Center fears negative effects on “the delicate little plant of tourist work”. Kerosene drains would also be noticed by vacationers. “It has significantly torpedoed our tourism work.”
