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Meiningen / Kassel (dpa) - The Meiningen public prosecutor has closed an investigation against the Hessian authorities.
It was about sinking permits for saline production wastewater from the Kassel potash group K + S.
A complaint has now been filed against the termination of the proceedings, said a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office on Thursday when asked in Meiningen.
It was determined because there had been reports in connection with the sewage sinking.
It is currently being checked whether the investigation should be submitted to the Thuringian Public Prosecutor's Office, the spokesman said.
No information could therefore be given on details of the case.
First, the news magazine «Der Spiegel» reported on the case.
Accordingly, the procedure should have run against 50 suspects.
This figure was not confirmed by the public prosecutor with reference to the pending case.
According to «Spiegel», permits issued since 1976 are said not to have been compatible with the federal law on the organization of the water balance and were therefore illegal.
The Hessian authorities had given the company K + S ten different permits to pump more than 340 million cubic meters of brine into the ground by the end of this year.
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K + S operates several potash plants in the Werra district on the Hessian-Thuringian border.
In Thuringia in particular, the so-called lye sinking by K + S has met with fierce opposition for years.
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