After the Australian-Austrian company ADX submitted an application for approval of a gas exploration well in Molln in Upper Austria to the responsible mining authority of the Ministry of Finance, Greenpeace, Fridays for Future Austria and the citizens’ initiative Pro-Natur Steyrtal filed an appeal on Friday an open letter to the federal government to stop drilling.
Austria’s oil and gas production “goes against all efforts to protect the climate as it solidifies a fossil and anti-future path,” the letter said. In addition, the project threatens “enormous environmental destruction” in the immediate vicinity of the “Jaidhaus” nature reserve and the Kalkalpen National Park.
The government is therefore being asked not to approve the test wells and “present a legal framework for the consistent abandonment of oil and gas production”.
The Austrian subsidiary of Australia’s ADX Energy, ADX Vie, owns oil fields in Austria’s Zistersdorf and Gaiselberg and recently accounted for a low-single-digit share of domestic oil production, but also holds several gas exploration licenses, including one in Molln.
She now wants to go one step further and drill a test well. Whether and how much gas will be found in Molln is still completely open. According to the company, the forecasts are between 4 and 40 billion cubic meters.
Source: Krone
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