Duisburg --
The carbon monoxide pipeline of Bayer provides for years of excitement among the neighbors of the path. Now turns to naked fear in Duisburg: Right next to the pipeline was found a World War-bomb.
For pyrotechnic Peter Giesecke Sweeping Administration of the District Government of ordnance, it was routine. After 20 minutes he had bolted the detonator from the 500-pound U.S. bomb: "She has struggled a bit, but we won."
For the residents of the bomb discovery means directly next to the junction of the B288 to A59 but naked fear: What would happen if it detonates a dud and CO pipeline would shred of Bayer AG? Thousands of people killed by the respiratory poison fears Erich hens from the citizens' initiative against the pipeline.
Piquant: The UXO was found only because to be connected at this point B8n to the highway. The work on the pipeline a few meters away the bomb remained undetected. "No wonder: Bayer has to be examined against the requirements of the Planfestellungsbeschluss route never on duds," said Hennen.
Now, finally, the first 3.5 kilometers of the pipeline are searched by the explosive ordnance Sweeping Administration. "We have made an aerial photo analysis to explore now the suspected sites," said Jochen Schmidt, head of security at the district government. "Far too little," romp hens and his colleagues: "So there are only two thirds of all the duds!"
