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Is deepening the Rhine River a good idea?

Natalie Muller
September 9, 2022

While major businesses depending on Rhine shipments are backing a government plan to deepen the river in key sections, towns on the Middle Rhine are fighting an uphill battle to stop it. But why is this project so controversial?

https://p.dw.com/p/4Gdrb

Interviewees featured in this episode:

Philipp Rahn, mayor of Bacharach

Laure Roux, administrator for economic affairs at the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR)

Kai Kempmann, administrator and civil engineer, in charge of the Committee for Infrastructure and Environment at the CCNR

Sabine Yacoub, chairwoman of Rhineland Palatinate's branch of the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND)

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