Agriculture Minister Norbert Totschnig (ÖVP) defends the draft strategy for soil protection in an interview on krone.tv with Conny Winiwarter: “It is a milestone in regional planning and for soil protection.” However, a vacancy compensation is excluded for the ÖVP. Instead, grants are made available – “to create new space”.
The current concept of the soil protection strategy has been discussed in a year and a half. “So we gave everyone enough time to get involved,” says Totschnig. It is now the seventh version of the strategy. The Minister of Agriculture is satisfied: “We have developed the strategy with scientific support. It is a real milestone.” Greenpeace and WWF see it differently: they criticize the fact that there are no binding targets.”It is a concrete action plan with a timetable up to 2030,” Totschnig defended the newspaper.
“Don’t just look at the green meadow“
The goal is to reduce soil consumption by 80 percent to 2.5 hectares per day by 2030. Are there consequences if the goal is not achieved? “You have to approach the regions individually.” Because there is no end to the view for concrete in the future: “We to expect for die next one seven years 200,000 Additionally Households. Also Living room is becoming needed. Also die Company needs Territories.” One should “not look only at the green pasture.”
‘We at the ÖVP want to relieve’
The fact that there is vacancy in Austria the size of Vienna is no reason for a vacancy levy for the minister: “We don’t want to tax it, we want to promote it. City centers.”
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Source: Krone
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