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Climate Activists Protest as German Village to Make Way for Coal Mine
« on: January 03, 2023, 09:08:12 am »
Climate Activists Protest as German Village to Make Way for Coal Mine
January 02, 2023 1:08 PM
Associated Press
 

BERLIN —
Scuffles broke out on Monday outside a village in western Germany that is to be razed to allow the expansion of a coal mine, a plan that is drawing resistance from climate activists.

Activists threw fireworks, bottles and stones at police outside the village of Luetzerath before the situation calmed down and officers pulled back, German news agency dpa reported.

Protesters previously had set up a burning barricade, and one person glued his hand to the access road.

The hamlet is to be demolished to expand the Garzweiler lignite mine, despite protests from environmentalists who fear millions more tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide will be released into the atmosphere.

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