Germany’s New Hunger for Coal Dooms a Tiny Village

NY Times ^ | October 13, 2022 | Christopher F. Schuetze and Erika Solomon

[McGruff]

For months, die-hard environmental activists have camped in the fields and occupied the trees in this tiny farming village in western Germany, hoping that like-minded people from across the country would arrive and help stop the expansion of a nearby open-pit coal mine that threatened to swallow the village and its farms.

But the hoped-for surge in protesters never materialized. And last week, the government effectively sealed Lützerath’s fate by announcing that RWE, Germany’s largest energy company, needed the coal under the village — to make up for gas that had stopped flowing in from Russia.

The war in Ukraine, and the looming prospect of a winter without cheap Russian fuel, has cooled enthusiasm in Germany for greener policies, at least for now.

[Ex gun maker.]

Snickering in delight!
Oh so very Green, until the lights go out and the winter chill deepens.
This will not be unique to Germany.

[cranked]

So ThunbergIdiot is right after all? Oh snap, even a broken clock gives the right time twice a day. /s

‘Greta Thunberg: Germany making ‘mistake’ by ditching nuclear power for coal’
https://www.dw.com/en/greta-thunberg-germany-making-mistake-by-ditching-nuclear-power-for-coal/a-63406732

[dfwgator]

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Obambi promised to bankrupt every coal mine, and especially every coal-fired electricity plant. Meanwhile, he was shipping massive amounts of coal to....yes....China. Americans cannot have electricity, but the Chicoms, No Worries.

[Bernard]

Reality is mugging many, many liberals and tree huggers this winter.

[MAGAthon]

“For months, die-hard environmental activists have camped in the fields”

and who can afford to do this? not the working class, that’s for sure.

for the elite and their “useful idiots” the end is nigh...and it ain’t from “climate change”.

[cranked]

Indeed, indeed.

[caww]

...The energy company, needed the coal ‘under the village’ — to make up for gas that had stopped flowing?????

Well if an energy company wanted the coal UNDER my village I would have said “there’s the door” not happening!

[inchworm]

Hey Germany, think about how much more coal and put mining there will need to be to warm all those migrants. Lol

[caww]

Here's the aerial view of Lützerath and Eckardt Heukamp’s farm,... with the coal pit in the background. ......The 'village is to be razed' for the coal beneath it!

[Dr. Sivana]

Meanwhile, some of the most successful farms in the world in nearby Holland may be forced to sell because their cows emit nitrogen.

[McGruff]

Not as bad as

Gotta have those electric car batteries.

[21twelve]

I worked on a project where some huge main power lines ran over a landfill. The landfill company paid millions of dollars to move the powerlines so they could put more garbage onto the pile.

I would think that the coal company could offer a nice plan to the village.

“We'll move all of the buildings to another site and include new appliances if you would like them. How about a park with a fountain and band stage? And we'll pay every family $500,000 for the inconvenience?”

[from occupied ga]

If it’s anything like the USA then the coal company probably owns the mineral rights to the land the village is on and they can do what they want to get at those minerals.

[familyop]

"Die-hard environmental activists" should try that in Russia.

[jmacusa]

So... lachst du jezt?

So are you laughing now?

[Flick Lives]

That picture perfectly encapsulates the arrogance of the elites; their smug stupidity.

[GaryCrow]

I wonder how the residents of Lützerath felt when Germany was shutting down their nuclear power plants in the name of “green” energy. My guess is that they were in favor of it.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

In the 1970s in the USA there were dozens of proposed nuclear energy projects on the drawing board. And the usual Leftists suspects were out in force fighting nuclear energy tooth and nail. And fellow travelers like Hollywood assisted with movies such as Jane Fonda's The China Syndrome.

The lawyers got their lawfare going. Minor fiascoes like Thee Mile Island were just more gasoline on the fire. Throw in Global Cooling and the coming Ice Age to confuse things even more, and soon the nuclear energy industry was dead.

Ironic is it not, that now those proposed nuclear plants are sad memories, like the loving nice girl they never should have dumped.