This is reported by the “Daily Mirror“. Accordingly, the battery factory of the company Moll-Batterien GmbH was initially planned on a site in Berlin-Marzahn. But on the site of the Cleantech Business Park, which is the Battery factory The rare common toad species “Bufotes virides” was discovered.

To block her path onto the site, the company Aucoteam, which was responsible for building the factory, erected a toad protection fence. The Marzahn Nature Conservation Office sued, demanding that the fence be torn down. Without success, because the operating company of the cleantech business park, Wista, sued against the demolition of the fence and was proven right.

As a result, nothing seemed to stand in the way of building the battery factory. The building permit was issued by the district office. But then the state working group was enough Nature conservation Another lawsuit was filed – and the construction project fell through in Berlin. The factory is now being built in Bavaria.

Berlin loses 380 jobs and 50 million euros

Already in 2021, when the project was announced, there was talk of investments amounting to 39 million euros. This number was later increased to 50 million. Also should be 380 Jobs arise.

The company has already found a new location in Bavaria – in Lichtenfels, Franconia. The company uses existing infrastructure there, so toads or other protected species can no longer pose a threat to the project. Production is scheduled to start in Lichtenfels this year. 90 million euros will be invested there and 120 jobs will be created.

Project developer Peter Urban’s conclusion: “I would really like to have the innovative battery project in Berlin realized, but we had no chance against the ‘common toad’,” as he wrote to the “Tagesspiegel”.