The town of Lützerath is, like others, condemned to disappear to allow a coal mine to expand, despite the abandonment of this energy, which emits a lot of greenhouse gases, programmed by Germany by 2030.
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Thousands of demonstrators gathered on Saturday April 23 in a village doomed to disappear due to the extension of a coal mine. Between 2,000 and 3,500 people, according to the respective data of the police and the organizers, demonstrated in Lützerath, in the Rhine mining basin, just a few hundred meters from the gigantic open-pit mine of Gazrweiler, one of the largest world, regularly targeted by environmental activists.
About a hundred activists have decided to protest at the edge of the mine, which may turn out to be “extremely dangerous”estimated in a tweet the police of the North Rhine-Westphalia region, asking the organizers to spread the message among the protesters.
This village is, like others, condemned for a long time to disappear to allow the coal mine to expand further, despite the abandonment of this energy, which emits a lot of greenhouse gases, programmed by Germany on the horizon. 2030. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, however, the debate on coal has been revived in the country, which is very dependent on Russian gas, which represents some 55% of its imports. In order to ensure the production of electricity while reducing its dependence, the German government gave itself the possibility at the end of March of “to suspend” the closure of certain coal-fired power stations to replace Russian gas, while ensuring that the objective of phasing out coal by 2030 remains unchanged.
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