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From #Genocide to #Greenwashing: Germany’s Legacy in Namibia (The Third Draft - Hanno Hauenstein, 2025-04-21)

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>> #Germany hasn’t paid reparations for its genocide in #Namibia. Descendants of the victims want a seat at the table. Now, a green hydrogen megaproject risks burying the past.

>> Shark Island … a former concentration camp that is also a tourist campsite, popular especially with German and South African visitors. Soon, it may also become the hub of a multibillion-euro energy project. Backed by the German company Enertrag SE, the Hyphen initiative aims to harness the region’s sun and wind to produce “green hydrogen” – a climate-neutral fuel destined for economies in the Global North.

>> The German government sees Hyphen as a strategic investment. For descendants like Fredericks, it threatens to erase what little remains of Shark Island’s memory.

#HereroNamaGenocide #colonialism
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The Third Draft - Hanno Hauenstein · From Genocide to Greenwashing: Germany’s Legacy in NamibiaBy Hanno Hauenstein
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In #Lüderitz in #Namibia ist ein Mega-Projekt geplant: Rund 600 Windräder, Solaranlagen und Elektrolyseure sollen auf einem rund 4.000 Quadratkilometer großen Areal in der Wüste entstehen.
Ziel: 300.000 Tonnen #Wasserstoff, umgewandelt in Ammoniak, sollen ab 2028 erzeugt und per Tanker nach Deutschland verschifft werden. Später sollen Millionen Tonnen folgen. Welchen Einfluss hat das Projekt auf Flora und Fauna? Wie sieht es mit den #Emissionen im Produktionsprozess aus?

Grüner Wasserstoff aus der Wüste, Text von OBS-Stipendiat Leon Kirschgens, erschienen in P.M. Wissen, 04/2025
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Attac Deutschland

Am 12. April 1893 begingen deutsche Truppen ein Massaker im Zuge eines Überfalls auf die zentralnamibische Siedlung Hornkranz – der Auftakt deutscher Kolonialverbrechen in #Namibia. Während ihrer Kolonialherrschaft errichteten deutsche Truppen das erste Konzentrationslager im Hafen von Lüderitz auf Shark Island und ermordeten Schätzungen zufolge bis 4.000 Menschen der Volksgruppen Nama und Ovaherero auf brutale Weise.

Das Gedenken an diesem Ort ist allerdings gefährdet, denn ausgerechnet dort soll der Hafen massiv ausgebaut werden, damit in Zukunft von dort in Namibia produzierter „grüner Wasserstoff“ verschifft werden kann. Welche Ironie: Ein Projekt, das deutlich neokoloniale Züge trägt, ausgerechnet an diesem Ort.

Wir unterstützen die namibischen Aktivist*innen, die sich diesem Projekt entgegenstellen, und werden Anfang Oktober mit einigen von ihnen eine Speakers-Tour durch Deutschland organisieren. Wir halten euch auf dem Laufenden!

#RohstoffenergiehungerStoppen

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www.attac.deGedenken an deutsche Kolonialverbrechen in NamibiaAttac unterstützt namibische Aktivist*innen und kündigt Speakers-Tour zu umstrittenem Wasserstoffprojekt an
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

"Deep Yellow's board has decided to defer a decision to construct a processing plant at the Namibian uranium project until the market provides sufficient incentive - but has also said it believes price improvements are inevitable.

In January, the Australian company had said it expected to be ready to make a final investment decision - or FID - on Tumas this March, but cautioned that an improved uranium price would be a primary pre-condition. Now, it says it is adopting a staged approach to development. Engineering and early works infrastructure development will continue, but full-scale process plant construction will be approved only when there is "sufficient uranium price incentive for greenfield project development". The processing plant accounts for the majority of the project's estimated capital expenditure.

Deep Yellow Managing Director John Borshoff said that Tumas is economic at current long-term uranium prices, but these prices "do not reflect or support" the amount of production that will be needed to meet expected demand.

"The Tumas Project is ready to take the next step but, as we have consistently stated, a healthy prevailing uranium market is a key prerequisite," he said. "The final project approval will therefore be delayed until uranium prices fully reflect a sustainable incentivisation environment essential to encourage development of new projects for much needed additional production."

Borshoff said the demand outlook, driven by decarbonisation efforts, forecasts of continued growth in energy demand, prevailing structural supply shortages and newly emerging requirements from the data centre developers, is "undeniable", and that the company is "comfortable" with its decision to continue with its staged development work while not committing the capital to construct the process plant.

“The reality is there are limited greenfield uranium deposits available for start-up globally over the next 10 years to satisfy projected demand, and new uranium supply will be virtually impossible to achieve in the current price environment," he said.

“Nuclear utilities cannot ignore the fact that unless uranium prices increase to appropriate levels and large amounts of capital become available to the supply sector, those greenfields projects will remain undeveloped."

The company has issued an updated Ore Reserve Estimate for the project, including 79.3 million pounds U3O8 of proved and probable reserves at 298 parts per million and a uranium price of USD100 per pound (reserves are the part of a mineral resource that are judged to be technically and economically feasible to extract). This would support a 30-year life-of-mine at a production rate of 3.6 million pounds U3O8 per year, according to an update of Deep Yellow's definitive feasibility study completed in March."

#Nuclear #News #Namibia
world-nuclear-news.org/article

World Nuclear NewsDeep Yellow defers Tumas decision pending price improvementDeep Yellow's board has decided to defer a decision to construct a processing plant at the Namibian uranium project until the market provides sufficient incentive - but has also said it believes price improvements are inevitable. ;
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