The police will clear the environmental activists from the village of Lucerath on Wednesday so that RWE can continue to increase coal production in the Rhine basin. Stone fuel is being actively used to reduce gas consumption.
Police Chief of Aachen Dirk Weinspach said climate activists will be evicted from Lucerath village on Wednesday, reports Zeit.
“The police are facing a difficult and complex situation with significant risks,” said a German police officer. The buildings in the village are currently occupied by climate activists protesting the demolition. There are 700 of them in Lucerath. Therefore, a major police operation is planned.
The German security forces are preparing for both peaceful and violent protests – with the seizure of the territory of a coal mine. Leader of the Left Party Janine Wisler he said he would join the protest and called the police operation a frontal attack on climate protection and madness.
To reduce gas consumption in the country, RWE reopened several lignite-fired power plants this year and needs additional volumes of fossil fuels. As early as 2001, he installed eight wind turbines at the Garzweiler open pit mine. But as production expanded in October, the company has also dismantled them too, just a few hundred meters from Lucerath. This village is one of the few remaining in the Rhine basin that environmental activists have been trying to save for years.
