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Germany Is Dismantling A Wind Farm To Make Way For A Coal Mine
https://oilprice.com ^ | By Michael Kern - Oct 26, 2022, 9:30 AM CDT

Posted on 10/26/2022 1:22:17 PM PDT by Red Badger

A wind farm is being dismantled in western Germany to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in a “paradoxical” situation highlighting the current prioritization of energy security over clean energy in Europe’s biggest economy.

The dismantling of at least one wind turbine at the wind farm close to the German coal mine Garzweiler, operated by energy giant RWE, has already started. RWE says that lignite, or brown coal, has been mined from the Garzweiler coalfields for over 100 years.

RWE also said at the end of September that three of its lignite-fired coal units that were previously on standby would return to the electricity market on schedule in October.

“The three lignite units each have a capacity of 300 megawatts (MW). With their deployment, they contribute to strengthening the security of supply in Germany during the energy crisis and to saving natural gas in electricity generation,” RWE said last month.

Now the company is expanding the lignite mine at Garzweiler after a court in Münster in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia ruled in favor of the energy group in a land dispute in March this year to expand the lignite mine.

Commenting on the dismantling of wind turbines to make way for expanding a coal mine, Guido Steffen, a spokesperson for RWE, told the Guardian, “We realise this comes across as paradoxical.”

“But that is as matters stand,” Steffen added.

Earlier this week, the ministry for economic and energy affairs of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia urged RWE to abandon the plan to dismantle the wind farm.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1sttopic; energyschadenfreude; germany; gretaisangered; gretaisangry; howdareyou; lignite
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1 posted on 10/26/2022 1:22:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Dirty lignite - one step above peat...


2 posted on 10/26/2022 1:23:18 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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3 posted on 10/26/2022 1:24:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

St. Greta of Thuneburg. On your knees infidel unbelievers.


4 posted on 10/26/2022 1:26:47 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: Red Badger

Not Babylon Bee!!!


5 posted on 10/26/2022 1:28:16 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: kiryandil

This will kill Greta.


6 posted on 10/26/2022 1:28:41 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Scoldilox saddened


7 posted on 10/26/2022 1:30:28 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Red Badger

Won’t be the last.


8 posted on 10/26/2022 1:31:13 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: Red Badger
Germany Denies Global Warming, Building Massive COAL plant to destroy planet by next year...Is Dismantling A Wind Farm To Make Way For A Coal Mine

There, Fixed it
9 posted on 10/26/2022 1:31:31 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Red Badger

irony?


10 posted on 10/26/2022 1:33:03 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: kiryandil

LOL, I have a feeling Greta is not pleased.....


11 posted on 10/26/2022 1:33:46 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Red Badger

“Groota Von Thundermug, pick up the white courtesy phone.”


12 posted on 10/26/2022 1:34:09 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: Red Badger

Bookmark


13 posted on 10/26/2022 1:34:16 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: Red Badger

Hmmm.. Some sanity in a world gone mad.?


14 posted on 10/26/2022 1:36:17 PM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: Red Badger

lmao... man i’d like to be a fly on the wall in some of those hard core save the planet groups!! I imagine they are coming unglued over this!!


15 posted on 10/26/2022 1:36:36 PM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: kiryandil

Poor little Greta will get her pigtails in a knoy and foam at the mouth while she screams “ how dare you”.


16 posted on 10/26/2022 1:39:38 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Red Badger

Results of a policy based on ideology rather than reality. Under stress it becomes incoherent and fails.


17 posted on 10/26/2022 1:44:34 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.. )
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Germany Is Dismantling A Wind Farm To Make Way For A Coal Mine

Devolution. Who knew that DEVO would turn out be prophets.

18 posted on 10/26/2022 1:44:47 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man.)
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To: kiryandil

“How dare you!”


19 posted on 10/26/2022 1:46:42 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Red Badger

Good start.


20 posted on 10/26/2022 1:47:10 PM PDT by Irenic
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