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Rhenish lignite mining region (as of September 2018) Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier. 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 Tagebau Hambach is a large open-pit coal mine (German: Tagebau) in Niederzier and Elsdorf, North Rhine–Westphalia, Germany. It is operated by RWE and used for mining lignite. The mine is on the site of the ancient Hambach Forest, which was purchased by RWE in 1978. The company then cut most of the forest down and cleared it to mine.
The Rhineland lignite-mining region, where FZJ is located, is undergoing an important structural change due to the coal phase-out. The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia aims to transform the region into a European model region for energy supply and resource security. [49]
Ende Gelände 2018 were a series of events of a mass movement for climate justice in the Rhenish lignite mining area in Germany. The non-violent direct action civil disobedience events were targeted against coal-based power generation through RWE Power AG and demanded the "immediate fossil fuel phase-out " based on climate justice and climate ...
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 ...
On October 15, 1944, the plant site was 90 percent destroyed in renewed air raids, and on March 6, 1945, the plant was occupied by U.S. soldiers. Production started up again as early as October 1945, as conveyor belts from Cologne were urgently needed in the Aachen coalfield and in the Rhenish lignite mining industry.
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.
Mining was originally limited to the 66 km 2 (25 sq mi) Garzweiler I area located east of the A 44 motorway. Mining in the 48 km 2 (19 sq mi) Garzweiler II area started in 2006 and is estimated to take until around 2045 to fully exploit both sectors. The lignite is used for power generation at nearby power plants such as Neurath [3] and ...