Expansion of Solfeld Grosszinggibrunn III

Schweizer Salinen AG has been mining salt in the canton of Basel-Landschaft for decades, currently in the Sulz and Grosszinggibrunn area. The basis for this is a concession from the canton of Basel-Landschaft, which covers a concession area south of Muttenz, Pratteln and west of Liestal. In order to ensure Switzerland's uninterrupted supply of salt for the coming years, the expansion of the existing Grosszinggibrunn brine field to include stage III is currently being planned. The expansion comprises a total of five new production wells in the municipality of Pratteln (BL), with which an additional 600,000 tons of salt are to be extracted. A new pumping station and a new transport pipeline to connect to the existing supply lines are also required to develop the new drilling sites. The new drilling sites and the pumping station will be located entirely in forest areas, while the transport pipeline will run partly through agricultural land and touch on crop rotation areas (FFF). The project represents a significant change to a plant subject to an EIA and is therefore also subject to an EIA in accordance with Art. 2 para. 1 let. a of the Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance (EIAO). Ecosens AG was already commissioned as an environmental specialist for the preliminary project, examined the environmental impact of the project and prepared an environmental impact report (EIR) for the construction project.