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The Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier, often called the Rhenish mining area, is a lignite mining area or district in the Cologne Bay, on the northwestern edge of the Rhenish Slate Mountains. The mining of lignite using the open pit method has had a significant impact on the landscape here and led to the formation of several important industrial sites.
The lignite is used for power generation at nearby power plants such as Neurath [3] and Niederaußem. In 2015, 1500 protesters took part in civil disobedience against the mine on the basis that it is Europe’s biggest source of CO 2 emissions. Around 1000 people entered the coal mine and all of the diggers in its pit were brought to a ...
On the 27 October 2018, a bucket-wheel excavator near the village of Morschenich as well as the rails of the Hambach industrial spur belonging to the Hambach surface mine were occupied by several thousand activists for 22 hours in order to symbolically block the transfer of lignite to the power plants. [2] More than 5000 people took part in the ...
Ende Gelände 2019 activists of the "red finger" near the Skywalk at the edge of the Garzweiler open-pit lignite mine on 22 June 2019. The "red finger" moving forward on the 22 June 2019. On Friday, 21 June 2019 the Ende Gelände 2019 activities began with a blockade of the North-South ( Nord-Süd Bahn-Kohlenbahn in German) train connection ...
Begun in 1978, the mine's operation area currently (as of end of 2017) has a size of 43.8 km 2, with the total area designated for mining having a size of 85 km 2. [4] It is the deepest open pit mine with respect to sea level : the bottom of the pit, with up to 500 metres (1,640 ft) from the surface, is 299 metres (981 ft) below sea level, [ 5 ...
The consortium that supplied steam generators was led by Babcock-Hitachi Europe GmbH. GEA Group built the cooling towers. Construction costs were €2.6 billion. The lignite used to fuel the plant is delivered by rail from open pit mines in the Rhenish lignite district (Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier), in particular from the Garzweiler and ...
The Lusatian Lake District and its surrounding area Section of the chain of lakes. The Lusatian Lake District [1] [2] [3] (German: Lausitzer Seenland, Lower Sorbian: Łužyska jazorina, Upper Sorbian: Łužiska jězorina) is a chain of artificial lakes under construction in Germany across the north-eastern part of Saxony and the southern part of Brandenburg.
Rhineland-Palatinate was established in 1946 after World War II, from parts of the former states of Prussia (part of its Rhineland and Nassau provinces), Hesse (Rhenish Hesse) and Bavaria (its former outlying Palatinate kreis or district), by the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany.