Lützerath

Several hundred climate activists tried Tuesday to prevent heavy machinery from reaching an abandoned village in Germany that is due to be cleared for the ...

That's the year when Germany has committed to stop mining the black gold. They have built treehouses and entrenched themselves to slow down the police evacuation. A police operation is underway to remove protesters from the village of Lützerath in western Germany.

The protests were "predominantly peaceful", but there were also arguments at the beginning of the operation. Minister Habeck and the federal government.

Journalists were denied access to the deployment area, and police officers are said to have asked a photographer to delete pictures. The Aachen administrative court had previously confirmed the legality of the order in two summary proceedings, which is intended to clear the hamlet for lignite mining. Protests against the eviction of Lützerath have also been announced in other German cities these days, for example in Munich and Hamburg. This is said to have been the communal kitchen of the activists. They had been erected in the past few days to make it as difficult as possible for the police to get to the activists. “People are determined to persevere, to protect the trees and the buildings,” said Mara Sauer, a spokeswoman for the “Lützerath Lives” initiative. Economics Minister Robert Habeck defended the evacuation of the village: “In my view, the empty Lützerath settlement, where nobody lives anymore, is the wrong symbol,” said the Green politician, whose party has been particularly criticized for the use. According to the police, there were also small children in Lützerath at the time. According to the police, many of them took advantage of this: “Above all, we expressly welcome the fact that a large number of activists have decided to leave the area peacefully and without resistance,” the police spokesman continued. So far, the police are “very satisfied” with the course of the evacuation in Lützerath. Later, RWE wants to demolish the houses and streets of the village. In the early afternoon, a spokesman said: “So far everything is going according to plan for the police.

Burning the brown coal under Lützerath will push Germany beyond its carbon budget, analysts say.

A barricade has been set up around the perimeter of the camp, and police are restricting the movement of people to or from the village. The ministry of interior estimated the eviction will take “up to four weeks”. “In the course of an eviction, however, violent actions such as so-called lock-on devices or tripod actions, occupations, the erection of barricades or rappelling actions are to be expected,” it said. The immediate goal of the activists in Lützerath is to hold their ground for six more weeks, until the end of Germany’s logging season. The eviction, which took place in 2018, was criticized for its brutality and resulted in the death of a journalist who fell from a tree house. Photo courtesy of We are fighting here for villages, for livelihoods, for forests, for fields and water all over the world,” Luisa Neubauer, a prominent leader of the youth-led climate group, Fridays for Future in Germany, told the crowd at Lützerath on Sunday. The likelihood of activists successfully preventing RWE and state police forces from clearing Lützerath is slim, but the sheer number of demonstrators present at the site seems to have, at least temporarily, given them the upper hand. “It is not only legitimate but existentially important that people continue to fight for an end to the burning of coal,” tweeted Kathrin Henneberger, a Green Party politician from North Rhine-Westphalia who has long opposed RWE’s mining in the area. The extraction of lignite (or brown coal) has become the subject of bitter contention in Germany. Protestors throw rocks at the gigantic bucket-wheel excavator at Garzweiler II lignite mine, which is scheduled to expand into the village of Lützerath in North Rhine-Westphalia state. 10, but police began taking down structures on the edge of “Lützi Camp” as early as Jan.

Hundreds of activists in Lützerath vow to prevent hamlet's destruction to make way for lignite mine.

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German climate activists have clashed with riot police over Lützerath, the last village standing in the path of the Garzweiler coal mine.

Several hundred climate activists tried Tuesday to prevent heavy machinery from reaching an abandoned village in Germany that is due to be cleared for the ...

As police ramped up protester evictions in Lützerath, hundreds of scientists and celebrities sent letters to authorities urging an end to the removals and a ...

The transition path to renewable energies should therefore be based in particular on a German and European CO2 budget that is in line with the Paris climate goals and is ethically justifiable. "We recommend a moratorium on evictions," the scientists wrote. "We raise the question of the societal cost of forced eviction. "As scientists, we see it as our duty to point out the consequences of an evacuation from Lützerath," the letter states. There is substantial scientific doubt about the urgent need for an evacuation. The police operation accelerated Wednesday after a court affirmed earlier in the week that an order to clear the hamlet is "presumably valid," German state broadcaster Deutsche Welle What effect does the eviction have in terms of the credibility of German climate policy? It is about a meaningful sign of the necessary departure from the fossil age." "We're already experiencing droughts, famines, and floods," she added. The party has come under fire for The Guardian And therefore wrong decisions need to be corrected."