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5/5 © Reuters. Local weather Activist Greta Thunberg joins the activists protesting towards the enlargement of the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine of Germany’s utility RWE to Luetzerath, in Keyenberg, Germany, January 14, 2023. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen

2/5 LUTZERATH (Reuters) – Round 6,000 protesters – together with local Weather Activist Greta Thunberg – marched by mud and rain to the German village of Luetzerath on Saturday, based on a police estimate, demonstrating towards the enlargement of an Opencast Lignite Mine.

The clearing of the village within the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia was agreed between RWE and the federal government in a deal that allowed the vitality big to demolish Lutzerath in trade for its sooner exit from coal and saving 5 villages initially slated for destruction.

“It is a betrayal of current and fuure generations… Germany is likely one of the greatest polluters on the planet and must be held accountable,” Thunberg mentioned on a podium, after she marched with a cardboard signal saying in German “Luetzi stays”, utilizing a shortened title of the village.

Because the protesters neared the village, they had been confronted by police in riot gear, and a few used batons to push the protesters again.

Regional police mentioned on Twitter it had used pressure to cease folks from breaking by obstacles an nearing the hazard zone on the fringe of the excavation space.

Earlier this week, police cleared out protesters from buildings they’ve occupied for nearly two years in try and cease the close by mine’s enlargement.

On Saturday, solely few remained tenting out in treehouses and an underground tunnel, however hundreds turned as much as protest towards the mine, which activists say symbolises Berlin’s failing local weather coverage.

The president of North Rhine-Westphalia informed German radio Deutschlandfunk on Saturday that vitality politics was “not all the time fairly” however that the coal was wanted greater than ever in gentle of the vitality disaster confronting Europe’s greatest financial system.

Earlier Financial system Minister Robert Habeck informed Spiegel on Friday that Lutzerath was the “mistaken image” to protest towards.

“It’s the final place the place brown coal shall be mined – not an emblem for more-of-the-same, however for the ultimate frontier.”

However activists have mentioned Germany shouldn’t be mining any extra lignite and concentrate on increasing renewable vitality as a substitute.

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