Just to illustrate how toxic #Germany “environmental” organisations became in EU.

#Poland branch of #WWF was just denied participation in parliamentary maritime commission based on a very simple - and unfortunately entirely justified - argument.

WWF was one of the organisations which since 2006 blocked Baltic pipelines based on marine protection arguments. They compiled a whole list of threatened species, including birds, marine mammals etc. Then in 2010 they suddenly made “out of court agreement” with Gazprom, WWF head Jochen Lamp became the head of a new environmental fund which incidentally received a 10 million donation from Gazprom. WWF withdrew all its opposition against Nord Stream.[^1]

In a similar way, Greenpeace Germany fiercely fought #nuclear power while having a daughter company Greenpeace Energy, which for years sold… Russian fossil gas in Germany. The company was very active on the lobbing front -it sued European Commission for approving public funding for Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant, published fake reports showing nuclear CO2 emissions to be equal to those of brown coal (!) etc.[^2] The Greenpeace NGO had no problem with fossil gas, they just called it “transition fuel”, and in 2017 they even voted (!) to extend use of coal (!) until 2038. When asked about how support for coal plays with their environmental goals, they just posted a “dissenting voice” which was meaningless because it was non-binding - what was binding was the vote, and they voted for. When the Greenpeace Energy gas controversy was finally highlighted by the media, they simply changed their name to “Green Planet Energy” - they preserved all the legal links with Greenpeace, but they were less obvious under the new name.

[^1]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-7-2011-004021_EN.html

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Planet_Energy#Fossil_gas_controversy