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Violinists play last tunes before German coal village demolition

Above the din of bulldozers and the shouts of hundreds of climate activists facing off against riot police in the western German village of Luetzerath on Thursday, two violinists bid their own farewell to the place set for demolition.

Reuters

Riot police clear coal mine activists from abandoned German village

Riot police backed by bulldozers removed scores of activists from buildings in an abandoned village in western Germany on Thursday in a second day of confrontations over the expansion of a coal mine.

Reuters

Police press ahead with clearance of condemned German hamlet

Police are pressing ahead with the clearance of a condemned village in western Germany where activists are vowing to hold out against its demolition to make way for the expansion of a coal mine

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Police start clearing German village condemned for coal mine

Police in riot gear began evicting climate activists on Wednesday from a condemned village in western Germany that is due to be demolished for the expansion of a coal mine.

Irish Independent

German coal mine standoff escalates as police move on protesters

In a bid to prevent the Garzweiler mine’s expansion, activists say they will keep trying to defend Luetzerath village.

Al Jazeera

Police move on coal mine protesters barricaded in abandoned German village

Hundreds of police began clearing climate protesters out of an abandoned village on Wednesday in a showdown over the expansion of an opencast lignite mine that has highlighted tensions around Germany's climate policy during an energy crisis.

Reuters

Protests to save a village from being swallowed by a coal mine expose Germany's climate conflict

Germany made a strong return to coal burning after the war in Ukraine cut off Russian gas supplies.

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Police bid to clear activists from German village condemned in favour of mine

Police are attempting to evict activists seeking to prevent the demolition of a village in western Germany to make way for the expansion of a coal mine.

Irish Independent

Police begin moving toward German village condemned for mine

Police have begun moving toward a condemned village in western Germany, in an apparent preparation to evict activists holed up at the site in an effort to prevent its demolition to make way for the expansion of a coal mine

The Independent UK

German coal mine clash pits laws against climate

The fate of a tiny village has sparked heated debate in Germany over the country’s continued use of coal and whether tackling climate change justifies breaking the law

The Independent UK

German police clear blockades at village condemned for mine

Several hundred climate activists tried to prevent heavy machinery from reaching an abandoned German village due to be cleared for the expansion of a coal mine, even as police pushed back protesters and removed road blocks ahead of a possible clearance this week.

Irish Independent

German police clash with activists in showdown over coal mine expansion

Police on Tuesday began dismantling barricades and dragged away activists staging a sit-in protest against the expansion of an opencast lignite mine that has highlighted tensions over Germany's climate policy during an energy crisis.

Reuters

Activists opposing German mine expansion lose legal bid to stay in village

A court in Germany has rejected a last-ditch attempt by climate activists to stay in an abandoned village which is due to be cleared for the expansion of a coal mine that has become a battleground between the government and environmentalists.

Irish Independent

German court rejects activist bid to stay in doomed village

A court in Germany has rejected a last-ditch attempt by climate activists to stay in an abandoned village which is due to be cleared for the expansion of a coal mine that’s become a battleground between the government and environmentalists

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AFP

German police to evict anti-coal activists from Wednesday

Lützerath (Germany) (AFP) - German police said on Monday that they expected a "difficult" and "dangerous" task when they begin to remove thousands of anti-coal activists near an open cut mine in two days.

AFP

Protest at German village to block coal mine expansion

Lützerath (Germany) (AFP) - Protesters gathered in the west German village of Luetzerath on Sunday to challenge the extension of an open-air coal mine they say runs counter to the country's climate commitments.

Reuters

Germany backs Norwegian plan to capture carbon from cement

Germany's economy minister Robert Habeck threw his weight behind a Norwegian project to capture carbon emissions and re-use them being carried out by multinational HeidelbergMaterials.

Birmingham Post

Port of Blyth chosen as construction base for huge offshore wind farm

The port in Northumberland will have a site for RWE's Sofia wind farm at Dogger Bank in the North Sea

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Birmingham Post

RWE eyeing up carbon capture power station plan for South Humber Bank

Gas-fired proposal revealed as it partners with Viking CCS to investigate CO2 solution

Birmingham Post

RWE unveils huge solar farm and battery storage plan for land surrounding onshore wind site

Tween Bridge straddles the South Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire boundary with large swathes of land earmarked

Birmingham Post

Wind energy opportunity blows into primary school minds

RWE is leading workshops in schools around Grimsby port it has made its strategic base

The Conversation

How do floating wind turbines work? 5 companies just won the first US leases for building them off California's coast

Northern California has some of the strongest offshore winds in the U.S., with immense potential to produce clean energy. But it also has a problem. Its continental shelf drops off quickly, making building traditional wind turbines directly on the seafloor costly if not impossible.

The Guardian - UK

Germany agrees 15-year liquid gas supply deal with Qatar

Racing to wean itself off Russian gas supplies, Germany is set to buy 2m tonnes of liquid gas from Gulf state

Fortune

Wind farms kill millions of birds each year. Scientists have a simple solution: paint turbines black

A coat of paint is producing better results than the high-tech ideas that came before it.

AFP

Climate activists take to the trees to save German village

Lützerath (Germany) (AFP) - After the last farmer packed up and left in October, climate activists are the only people left in the village of Luetzerath, Germany, which sits above a rich vein of coal.

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