Similarly, the "Klaasohm" festival is a Saint Nicholas tradition celebrated every year on the night of December 5 on the North Sea island of Borkum, which has a population of approximately 5,400.

The German Wind Energy Association (BWE), a renewables lobby group with around 20,000 members, also opposes the project on the basis that the turbines are operated remotely by manufacturers, which ...

Borkum Lads Club, which has organised the festivities since the 1830s on the North Sea Frisian island, was forced to apologise for “historical actions of past years” and said it distanced ...