Stock Photo - 12 April 2022, Lower Saxony, Stade: Bernd Althusmann (CDU,r), Minister of Transport of Lower Saxony, talks with Olaf Lies (SPD), Minister of the Environment of Lower Saxony. An import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is to be built in Stade by 2026. Up to 13.3 billion cubic meters of gas per year will then be piped from there into the networks - around 15 percent of Germany's gas demand. The operator consortium Hanseatic Energy Hub (HEH) submitted the approval documents to the responsible State Trade Supervisory Office in Lüneburg on Monday and expects to receive approval by March 2023. Construction work is then scheduled to begin. Photo: Sina Schuldt/dpa. - Stade/Lower Saxony/Germany