Save The Date

DEC 8-12

In December, the global gas lobby meets in Berlin/Germany to celebrate their climate destruction. At the luxury Hotel Adlon, prizes will be awarded to those who have done the best greenwashing. But companies that put our lives at risk for profit must expect our resistance: Together we want to disrupt the gas companies’ congress and stand up for a renewable, just future for all.

Summit

Parallel to the LNG Summit, we are organising a two-day counter-summit with information, workshops and panel discussions.

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Demonstration

On Tuesday, when the gas companies are awarding prizes to each other, we are organising a demonstration to show that fossil gas and LNG have no future.

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Direct Action

When the CEOs of the gas companies toast their profits with champagne in a luxury hotel, they must expect our resistance. We will try to disrupt their party.

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We look forward to international participation, further networking and creative, strong protests!

What is the World LNG Summit?

The World LNG Summit is one of the largest international networking meetings of the fossil gas industry and lobby. Companies such as RWE, Exxon, Shell, Total and co. meet at the Hotel Adlon to network further and conclude deals on future projects.

With the “World LNG Awards”, the companies reward each other for having the best ideas for marketing, maximizing profits and greenwashing their destructive business model.

The gas lobby has extreme influence on political decision-makers worldwide and makes billions in profits at the expense of us all.

What is LNG and why is it a problem?

In recent years, liquefied natural gas (LNG) has become the preferred method of transporting gas. This involves liquefying gas at -161 degrees so that it can then be shipped. Since 2020, more gas has been transported via LNG ships than via pipelines, and the trend is still rising.

LNG is one of the most climate-damaging options for transporting gas. Methane, a far more harmful greenhouse gas than CO2, escapes during extraction and transportation. If these emissions are included in the calculation, natural gas is far more harmful to the climate than coal.

Germany in particular has massively expanded its LNG infrastructure in the course of the war of aggression against Ukraine. This was justified by the fact that LNG was suitable as a “bridging technology” and that the terminals were “hydrogen-ready”. With the narrative that we could soon be receiving green hydrogen via the terminals that have been built, the fossil infrastructure is being sold to us as a sustainable energy transition project. The fact that we will soon be able to receive hydrogen via the terminals is still highly controversial from a technical point of view and is just another fairy tale from the fossil fuel industry to secure its business model. With the massive expansion, Germany is maneuvering itself into a fossil lock-in.

Where does the LNG that arrives in Europe come from?

LNG that comes to Europe is mainly fracking gas from the USA. Fracking is the most dangerous and harmful method of extracting gas. A highly toxic mixture of chemicals is pumped into deep layers of the earth to get at the gas. Fracking not only poisons nature and the environment, but is also extremely dangerous. For example, it leads to high cancer rates in the affected regions and poisons drinking water.

Russia has expanded its LNG fleet and now supplies its gas to Europe via the ports of Belgium, France and Spain, from where it also reaches Germany via pipelines. In this way, LNG continues to finance the dying in Ukraine.

Other LNG suppliers are dictatorships such as Qatar. In addition, corporations are planning to develop new gas fields for the production of LNG, for example in the fish-rich sea off the coast of Senegal.

Do we need LNG?

It’s grotesque: renewable energy technologies for heating have long been at the cutting edge of technology and the storage and battery industry is currently taking off. With every euro that political decision-makers continue to invest in gas infrastructure, they are cementing the fossil lock-in instead of building renewable structures for us all. This is how the gas lobby wants to turn its fairy tale that we need liquefied natural gas into reality. The renewable share in the German electricity mix is already over 50 percent. There has no longer been a gas shortage since mid-2023 - in September 2024, Economics Minister Habeck officially declared the shortage to be over. Let’s decisively counter the LNG rush!

Map

Online info map on the LNG counter-protests and LNG players in Berlin: In this map you can find information on the location of the Gas Counter-Summit on Sunday and the demonstration route on Tuesday. The map also shows the Berlin branches as well as further information on a selection of players and companies that support the global LNG expansion.

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