Thousands of people protested against plans to bulldoze a village in western Germany to expand a coal mine that environmental activists say should be shut down, not enlarged.
Participants of a demonstration walk on a street in the direction of Luetzerath, Germany, Saturday, April 23, 2022. The village of Luetzerath is to make way for the Garzweiler open pit mine.
The German news agency dpa quoted police in the afternoon as saying that the demonstration in Luetzerath, about 40 kilometers west of Cologne, passed by peacefully. About 2,000 people took part, dpa reported. Climate activists argue that the village and others nearby should not be demolished because burning the coal that's still in the ground undermines Germany's efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Some German officials have countered that in order to reduce the country's imports of Russian fossil fuels in the short term, Germany needs to rely on other sources of energy, including the lignite coal mined at Garzweiler.
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