The Federal Constitutional Court is concerned today, Tuesday with lawsuits filed by several energy companies to phase out nuclear energy. E.ON, RWE and Vattenfall have sued, claiming that they had been dispossessed against the federal government. The judges in Karlsruhe have now investigating whether the government has violated fundamental rights.
After the incident in the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima, the government had 2011 the lifetime extension of the previous year reversed. In its Atomic Energy Act CDU and FDP placed firmly within what deadlines the company must turn off their total of 17 power plants.
Is the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court the company right, could this on damages complain. Until a judgment spoken, could take several months. Currently, the companies are negotiating with the government on how the burden of the nuclear phase can be distributed. Before an agreement the government has the company asked to withdraw its action.
The fact that now negotiated, is a problem for the government in his own words. “We are waiting for the verdict of the Constitutional Court left off,” said Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks (SPD). She pointed out that even the final nuclear phase had been set. The plans had agreed to the nuclear power plant operators. “The fact that the nuclear phase preceded, was not a new situation.”
Nationwide there are more than 20 lawsuits against the moratorium, which immediately after the accident at Fukushima had been adopted. Eight older reactors had been shut down for three months. The government justifies its decision with “security”. Vattenfall complains also in arbitration proceedings in the United States on a compensation amounting to 4.7 billion euros. Additionally to be negotiated this fall.
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