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Germany begins dismantling wind farm for coal
EU Observer ^ | 29 Aug 2023, 10:43 | Wester van Gaal

Posted on 08/29/2023 3:41:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

One wind turbine has already been dismantled, with a further seven scheduled for removal to excavate an additional 15m to 20m tonnes of so-called ‘brown’ coal, the most polluting energy source.

The demolitions are part of a deal brokered last year between Robert Habeck, the Green Party’s minister for economy and climate action and Mona Neubaur, who is the economy minister for North Rhine Westphalia, to allow the expansion of the mine.

In return, RWE had to agree to phase out coal in 2030, eight years before the previous deadline. “It’s a good day for climate protection,” Habeck said at the time.

But this week’s move has sparked sharp criticism from activists.

“The current climate emergency requires urgent and concerted efforts to accelerate the deployment of every single wind turbine, solar panel and heat pump that we can muster,” said Fabian Hübner, a senior campaigner at Beyond Fossil Fuels, a German-based coalition of climate activists.

“Anything that diverts from this critical endeavor, especially the dismantling of renewable energy sources to extract more fossil fuels, must be unequivocally prohibited,” he added. […]

According to RWE, the expansion is necessary “due to the energy crisis.” The government in Berlin follows this logic. Indeed, some of the leading advocates of RWE’s coal expansion plans come from the Green Party, one of three ruling parties in Germany’s current ‘traffic light’ coalition with center-left SPD and business-friendly FPD-party.

Habeck has defended the expansion as the “right decision.” Green party politician Oliver Krischer has described the expansion and earlier phase-out as “one of the greatest advances we’ve made in recent years.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: coal; energy; europe; eussr; fourthreich; germany; wind
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1 posted on 08/29/2023 3:41:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

No problem. The right people have been paid off.
Knock them down and start a fresh round of bribery and kickbacks.


2 posted on 08/29/2023 3:44:49 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: Olog-hai

Greta’s going into hyperspace over this.


3 posted on 08/29/2023 3:44:53 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Olog-hai

The Green Party gets to pretend they’re winning “we’re phasing out coal sooner than expected: 2030”. But instead it’s a reversion back to reality: “green” power on the grid doesn’t cut the mustard. They need fossil fueled power.


4 posted on 08/29/2023 3:44:58 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Olog-hai
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAhahahahahahahahaha! !! ! ! ! ! !
5 posted on 08/29/2023 3:45:18 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Olog-hai
Germany-Energy-Trans
6 posted on 08/29/2023 3:45:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Olog-hai

I hope the Krauts are using solar-powered mining equipment.


7 posted on 08/29/2023 3:47:00 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Olog-hai

File this under “News you’ll never see in the American media”.


8 posted on 08/29/2023 3:47:42 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Olog-hai

What about the house size concrete and steel thing underground will they recycle it , oh wait all of Merkel’s work will be lost ,LOL


9 posted on 08/29/2023 3:49:50 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Olog-hai
I've been two Westphalia. There's a bloody gigantic open-pit brown coal mine near it (link). You could stand on the tailings mountain to its northwest and look into the distance and see six or seven big coal-fired generating plants arranged at even intervals along the horizon.
10 posted on 08/29/2023 3:50:55 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Olog-hai

Get Neidermier on it STAT! I H8 those things blocking my “view shed”.


11 posted on 08/29/2023 3:52:52 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: Olog-hai

Send Joe Biden the bill. He blew up your natural gas pipelines for his own good.


12 posted on 08/29/2023 3:53:41 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: Olog-hai

They had a good deal with Russia...Fools...


13 posted on 08/29/2023 3:56:45 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Sacajaweau

They still do.

And Trump was not all for that deal. He insisted that they buy US gas and oil.


14 posted on 08/29/2023 3:57:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Steely Tom

Greta can go bleep herself for all I care. I’ve had enough of that miscreant to last a lifetime.


15 posted on 08/29/2023 4:08:21 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: sjmjax

Smart move by germany.


16 posted on 08/29/2023 4:09:13 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Olog-hai

True...but in the end...it’s about the people...


17 posted on 08/29/2023 4:10:31 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Steely Tom

I’ve also been there. That “brown coal” is LOADED with sulphur, which creates terrible acid rain along with everything else. I saw in one East German city how the acid had eaten all the carving detail off the cathedral there.

But the oh-so-smart Germans would rather shut down their far, far cleaner nuclear plants.


18 posted on 08/29/2023 4:12:31 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Olog-hai

Crazy Greta will blow fire out of her unwanted female parts.


19 posted on 08/29/2023 4:20:29 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Olog-hai

The future is nucular for applications in cities and structures.

Hydrogen capture will end up being the primary vehicle source.


20 posted on 08/29/2023 4:36:29 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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