LNG: A lot of tax money sunk? Terminal in Stade before the end

Special ship for the import of liquefied natural gas from the Hanseatic city after legal proceedings. Environmental aid speaks of further »investment ruin« in the FRG energy infrastructure.

The background to the out of the LNG terminal in Stade is a dispute with Hanseatic Energy Hub (HEH), which was commissioned to build the connection infrastructure. However, another land terminal planned by HEH for the import of liquefied petroleum gas is not affected by the developments.

At several locations in Germany, LNG terminals are planned on water and on land - too many are mooring environmentalists. A project in Stade is now about to go out. Those responsible are accusing each other of each other. Meanwhile, German environmental aid is complaining about sunk tax millions.

German environmental aid to the failed LNG terminal in Stade: "Bund und Land put three-digit million in the sand, further overcapacity must be stopped" Berlin, 20.3.2025: The commissioning of a floating LNG terminal in Stade has failed. Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) sharply criticizes the waste of the three-digit million in the project and demands a clear refusal to expand further overcapacity in Brunsbüttel, Wilhelmshaven and Stade. Sascha Müller-…

In order to replace Russian natural gas, installations for gas ships were to be built in several locations. In Lower Saxony, this became a pipe crepeer.

A contractual dispute over the connection to the German gas network of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) land terminal in the northern German town of Stade threatens to delay or even prevent the start-up of this infrastructure, in which the Spanish company Enagás participates. This terminal is part of several infrastructures whose construction the German Government decided to promote after the interruption of the Russian gas flow in 2022. The consor…