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A German court on Friday ruled that Tesla would not be able to clear as much forest as it intended to in order to build its new Gigafactory outside Berlin.
The court ruled the deforestation would endanger the local population of hibernating sand lizards.
Tesla already tried to relocate all the lizards from its site, but many of the lizards would already have been in their winter dens, the court found.
Therefore, Tesla s relocation won t have been enough to save the population.
As Tesla races to finish its new German Gigafactory by July 2021, a local species of lizard could pose a real problem.
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Tesla already tried to relocate all the lizards from its site, but many of the lizards would already have been in their winter dens, the court found.
Therefore, Tesla s relocation won t have been enough to save the population.
As Tesla races to finish its new German Gigafactory by July 2021, a local species of lizard could pose a real problem.
A German court on Friday issued an order forbidding Tesla from chopping down trees that are home to hibernating sand lizards who would not survive the clearance process.
The court order noted that Tesla already tried to accommodate the protected species by collecting and moving any lizards it found onsite. However, because many of the male lizards would already have been in their winter dens, the court says Tesla s relocation efforts wouldn t have been enough to protect the lizard population.
Elon Musk and The Snakes of Tesla Giga Berlin
Once again, the construction of the Tesla Giga Berlin was interrupted. There is a lot of forest, lizards, snakes - and the question of when the final building permit will come is still open.
Advertisement I believe in speed is one of Elon Musk s favorite sayings. What this belief in speed actually means can be seen very well in Tobias Lindh s Youtube videos. Since Musk has been building his fourth Gigafactory in Grünheide near Berlin, people like Lindh, Jurgen and Albrecht, whom I have numerously quoted in my Youtube Channel, have been circling their drones over Giga Berlin, documenting the construction progress. The first Tesla models should be built here by the middle of next year at the latest.
December 10, 2020
The Frankfurt (Oder) administrative court recently allowed Tesla to resume its tree-clearing activities at the Gigafactory Berlin complex, rejecting an urgent application from environmental organizations that called for a stop to the deforestation in the area.
This update should allow Tesla to resume the accelerated pace of Giga Berlin’s construction, including the buildout of facilities such as a dedicated battery facility that will be producing 4680 cells for the Made-in-Germany Model Y. News of the administrative court’s decision was posted on German news agencies on Thursday.
As noted in an
rbb24 report, environmental associations NABU and the Green League called for a halt in the electric car maker’s tree-clearing operations on an 83-acre portion of the Giga Berlin complex. The groups stated that animals such as snakes and lizards could be threatened by Tesla’s operations.