Tag: lignite
Police start clearing the occupied lignite site
Lützerath Between the wind and rain, the howling of the sirens can be heard in Lützerath early on Wednesday morning. For the activists who have been occupying the village for…
Police start clearing the occupied lignite site
Lützerath Between the wind and rain, the howling of the sirens can be heard in Lützerath early on Wednesday morning. For the activists who have been occupying the village for…
Police start clearing the occupied lignite site
Erkelenz, Berlin It’s still dark when the sirens wail in Lützerath on Wednesday morning. For the activists who occupied the village to protect it from opencast lignite mining, this means…
Police start clearing the occupied lignite site
Erkelenz, Berlin It’s still dark when the sirens wail in Lützerath on Wednesday morning. For the activists who occupied the village to protect it from opencast lignite mining, this means…
Police start clearing the occupied lignite site
Erkelenz, Berlin Massive police forces began evacuating the village of Lützerath on the edge of the Rhenish lignite mining area in North Rhine-Westphalia on Wednesday. Hundreds of police officers moved…
Anti-coal protests in Lützerath – is there no alternative to opencast lignite mining?
The federal government wants to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2038 in order to achieve the climate targets. Coal-fired power plants should be replaced by gas-fired power plants until…
Clearing of the lignite village of Lützerath expected in January
Climate activists are demonstrating at the Lützerath opencast mine North Rhine-Westphalia’s interior minister announced on Thursday a large-scale operation to clear the village occupied by activists. (Photo: dpa) Lützerath The…
RWE earns a lot from the continued operation of two lignite blocks
Power poles and wind turbines around the Neurath coal-fired power plant of the RWE power company RWE now regards the energy transition as a core business. (Photo: IMAGO/Panama Pictures) Dusseldorf,…
RWE earns a lot from the continued operation of two lignite blocks
Power poles and wind turbines around the Neurath coal-fired power plant of the RWE power company RWE now regards the energy transition as a core business. (Photo: IMAGO/Panama Pictures) Dusseldorf,…
leg; The federal government had to support the lignite company with a loan worth billions
Leag power plant in Lippendorf According to information from the Handelsblatt, the East German lignite company had to be supported in the short term with a loan worth billions. (Photo:…
Will RWE get rid of lignite?
Dusseldorf The formulation in the coalition agreement is short and sweet – but it could trigger a transaction worth billions. In addition to dedicated goals for renewable energies, electricity prices…
+++ Climate Summit +++: Activists block lignite power plants – Study: The super-rich live like “ecological vandals”
China’s share of global greenhouse gas emissions rose sharply in 2020 +++ UN report: Poorer countries have too little money for climate adaptation +++ 18 countries want to end investments…
Verdict on the lignite mine in Turow: Coal is becoming a problem
Turow coal-fired power station There is also a dispute between Poland and the Czech Republic about the power plant. (Photo: Reuters) The open-cast lignite mine and the associated Turow power…
Turow lignite area: Poland has to pay a fine
Luxembourg In the dispute over the Turow lignite mining on the border with Saxony, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has sentenced Poland to a fine. Despite an interim ECJ…