Industriegewerkschaft (IG) Metall Salzgitter-Peine, Lord Mayor Frank Klingebiel, Arbeitsgemeinschaft (AG) Schacht Konrad and Landvolk Braunschweiger Land have prepared this as a collective objection.

Anyone wishing to join the objection can sign the signature lists, which are available at the IG Metall trade union building in Chemnitzer Straße in Lebensedt, as well as at the Konrad House in Bleckenstedt and the Citizens' Center of the town hall in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt, the Salzgitter-Bad branch ("Kleines Rathaus") and the town library with all its branches.

It is also available on the city's homepage at www.salzgitter.de. The completed lists will be handed over to the responsible representatives at the Ministry of the Environment in Berlin on May 29, 2015.

The objection campaign will be accompanied by many public campaigns until the end of May. As a prelude, the signature lists will be available at the Motorradgedenkfahrt on Saturday, April 25, at an information stand of the AG Schacht Konrad and IG Metall on the town hall square in Lebenstedt.

As is well known, the Federal Ministry for the Environment is currently drawing up a national disposal program for radioactive waste. It is planning to double the storage volume and expand the radiological inventory in the Konrad mine.

In doing so, it is relying on the legal force of the planning approval decision for the Konrad mine and completely ignoring the fact that fundamental cornerstones of the Konrad project no longer correspond to the current state of science and technology and that measures are planned that cannot be remedied.

The public should also be involved in the preparation of the National Waste Management Program. For this reason, all citizens have the opportunity to comment on the draft program until 31 May 2015.

The alliance is certain that this is probably the last opportunity to raise objections to the storage of nuclear waste in Schacht Konrad.