Why is Germany turning back to coal for energy? alextomo reports from the village of Lützerath, where several hundred protestors are trying to stop it being destroyed - and becoming part of a giant open cast coal mine.
The village of Lutzerath, to be exact – where several hundred protestors are trying to stop it being destroyed, and becoming part of a giant open cast coal mine.
The village – in the north west of Germany near the Dutch border lies just a few hundred yards from a major mine supplying brown coal for its power plants.But the government in Berlin – including the Green Party – says they’ve had to turn to fossil fuels in the short term – because of the energy crisis linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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