Greenpeace activists protest in front of the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover against planned gas drilling near the North Sea island of Borkum. "No New Gas" is written on three-by-eight-meter banners on the windows of the plenary hall, which can be read from inside and outside. On an oversized barrier tape that they have stretched around the state parliament building, they demand from the state government and members of parliament: “GASBOHRUNGEN VOR BORKUM STOPPEN” (Stop gas drilling off Borkum). The Dutch company One-Dyas wants to develop a gas field in the immediate vicinity of the UNESCO World Heritage Wadden Sea between the North Sea islands of Schiermonnikoog and Borkum. According to a legal opinion published today by Greenpeace, the project is not compatible with climate and marine protection and therefore cannot be approved.