In order to achieve the goals of the 2030 climate protection program, the German government wants to
rapidly drive forward the expansion of offshore wind energy.
In this context, offshore wind farms, i.e. wind turbines located in the sea off the coast,
have been and are being built in the North Sea.
For example, there is an offshore wind farm 33 km off the island of Norderney with almost 100 wind turbines,
each of which is 125 m high and weighs around 1,000 tons.
In order to transport the wind power from the offshore wind farms to the mainland, several East Frisian islands - including
Norderney, Baltrum and Langeoog - are literally cut through.
This is because horizontal drilling is to be used to drill through the islands at a depth of several
meters in order to "shoot" power cables under the island.
A corridor 15 meters wide is planned for this on Baltrum, which will certainly not make the
structure of the sandy island any more stable.
The next storm surge could take a devastating toll.
Islanders also fear that the underground freshwater lens, which is important for the drinking
water supply, could be damaged by the drilling.
This lens is very sensitive. The supply of water would no longer be guaranteed and the
islands would in principle become uninhabitable.
Baltrum alone is connected to the mainland by a water pipeline.
So what does "green" electricity look like in practice?
Numerous machines, vehicles and construction materials are currently (as of June 2025) stored on the
eastern beach of Baltrum, where rare shorebirds were previously able to breed undisturbed.
In addition, large drilling ships are anchored in the Wadden Sea. This is just the beginning.
When all the necessary construction work is completed sometime after 2030, with horrendous clear-cutting
of nature, the electricity is to be routed from the North Sea to southern Germany.
While there is no outcry from so-called climate activists to protect the environment, "Fridays For Future"
activists are protesting fiercely about planned drilling off the North Sea island of Borkum to extract natural gas.
Its focus here is on protecting the Wadden Sea and the European goal of restoring the marine environment to a good state.
Why do these targets not also apply to the construction of offshore wind turbines?
But is this electricity at least really "green"?
In theory, offshore wind turbines should be able to produce twice as much electricity as comparable onshore turbines.
However, the rotors are at a standstill when the wind is often too high, as well as due to the aggressive salty sea air,
which results in greatly increased maintenance and repair costs.
Added to this are the high power losses when transporting electricity over such long distances:
One percent of the power is lost per 100 km of line.
That would be a loss of up to ten percent until the electricity reaches the south.
The "Baltrum-Online" portal continues to provide information:
"It will be years before green electricity is really 'green'!
The difficult conditions of building and transporting the materials on the high seas, such as heavy seas,
storms and water depths of up to 35 meters, were and are a major effort that costs an enormous amount of energy.
It will be years before this energy consumption is balanced out, and some even believe that the plants will have to be dismantled
by then - although it is not known how this will work.
Offshore wind farms also pose risks to nature. Here is just a selection:
The pile-driving of the foundations has harmful effects on marine mammals and fish, important feeding areas are lost
and the migration routes of migratory birds are impaired."
The sustainability propagated in the 2030 Agenda thus turns out to be the exact opposite.
The expansion of wind power on the high seas to generate electricity for the south is a perfidious
waste of resources and a ruthless destruction of nature for the benefit of a few profiteers.
This is the true face of the 2030 Agenda. See also the following programs: