KERTEMINDE / ODENSE: There is increasing political opposition in Kerteminde City Council against an upcoming expansion of Odense Port. In January, 12 out of the 25 members of the city council agreed that they would say no to the expansion, and now a memorandum shows that the municipality can stop the project without being met with a claim for compensation. This is reported by Fyens Stiftstidende.
The internal legal memorandum states that Kerteminde Municipality can choose to stop the plans to expand Odense Port at Munkebo at any time.
So far, there is still a majority in the city council in favor of continuing the port expansion.
In February, it emerged that a critical engineering report from last year, prepared by the Port of Odense's advisor, the engineering company Sweco, was incorrectly archived, and therefore the politicians in Kerteminde did not see the report until Fyens Stiftstidende found it through a document access last month.
In the report, the engineers emphasize that if the port expansion is carried out, it will not happen because the project has been assessed as environmentally sound, but because the politicians choose to deviate from the protection of Odense Fjord.
The port expansion could also end up removing all effects of the green tripartite for many years to come, the report estimates.
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