Thousands protest plan to raze German village for coal mine

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BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of people protested Saturday against plans to bulldoze a village in western Germany to expand a coal mine that environmental activists say should be shut down, not enlarged.

The German news agency dpa quoted police in the afternoon as saying that the demonstration in Luetzerath, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Cologne, passed by peacefully. About 2,000 people took part, dpa reported.

It came weeks after the village's last farmer sold his property to the utility company RWE after losing a court case against his eviction. The village is still inhabited by activists, some of whom have built tree houses in a bid to stop the nearby Garzweiler mine from being expanded.

Climate activists argue that the village and others nearby should not be demolished because burning the coal that's still in the ground undermines Germany's efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/thousands-protest-plan-to-raze-german-village-for-coal-mine/ar-AAWwaCO

[NNadir]

1. In Germany the choice comes down to this:

Either they burn coal when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining, or they turn off the lights and every other electric device when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining.

They made this choice all winter and the choice was to burn coal.

The phased out reliable nuclear power to rely on coal. Coal is the German idea of "green."

France, by contrast, did the opposite. They phased out coal to rely on nuclear energy.

As of this writing, 20:41 (8:41) Berlin time, a Saturday night 4/23/22, German Carbon Dioxide Intensity is 320 g CO2/kwh - with the wind blowing - compared to France's 46 g CO2/kwh. In the "percent talk" used to justify the so called "renewable energy" industry, the German carbon intensity is 695.7% higher than that of France.

The solar and wind industry were never, ever, about climate change. The claim that they were was a late add on. They were about irrational and frankly dangerous and deadly embrace of anti-nuke rhetoric for which Germany and the world are paying an awful price.

They'll fuck their village if there's coal under it. They couldn't care less.

That's a fact.

Facts matter.