Local politicians in north-eastern Germany were up in arms on Tuesday, after news broke that a major oil and gas deposit has been discovered in neighbouring Poland, with some experts also cautioning against extraction.

The find off the Polish Baltic coast by Canadian company Central European Petroleum (CEP) was hailed as a possible “breakthrough moment” in Poland, but officials across the border in Germany were quick to point out that extracting fossil fuels should not take priority in times of climate change.

“Our future does not lie in oil from the Baltic Sea, but in energy from the sun, wind and biomass,” said Till Backhaus, environment minister of the coastal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which borders Poland.

“The project stands for a  he added.backward-looking industrial policy in terms of climate policy, which is contrary to the interests of the environment and tourism on the German side,”

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Congratulations CEP — too bad you’ll never be allowed to extract it! Oh & Germany shut off it’s Fossil fuel energy and now doesn’t have enough power to keep basic services working! The EU is so skewered……….