Photo Gallery Protesters' War on Big Projects
Hartmut Binner is the leader of AufgeMUCkt, a group opposed to the extension of the Munich airport. He is part of a new, increasingly vocal protest culture taking shape in Germany that is making it more difficult to take on big infrastructure projects.
Torsten Albig, governor of the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, left, shows off a golden calculator and signatures in support of Germany's switch away from nuclear energy. "Infrastructure developments have always been societys flagship projects, a symbol of progress," says Albig. But now those projects are facing more grassroots resistance.
Lightning strikes near wind turbines in Lower Saxony. More often than not, the demonstrators are protesting against projects that stand for change: extensions to airports, railways, new wind farms or power lines.
