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Greta Thunberg intervenes in a dispute with Siemens

Siemens plans to build a coal-fired power plant in Australia. Climate activists from Fridays for Future increased the pressure on the company because of the bush fires. Now Greta Thunberg also intervenes.

Before deciding from Siemens The climate activist decided to supply a train signal system for a controversial coal mine in Australia Greta Thunberg turned into controversy. It appears that Siemens has the power to stop, delay or at least interrupt construction, the 17-year-old Swede wrote on Twitter on Saturday. “They’ll announce their decision on Monday. Please help make them make the only right decision.”

The Adani Group, headquartered in India, plans to build one of the largest coal mines in the world in Australia, which is to extract up to 60 million tons of coal per year from five underground mines and six open-cast mines. The project has been fought by environmentalists for years. In addition to the climate aspect, it is also about the consumption of water, the destruction of living space and the transportation of coal via the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the world.

Siemens is to supply signaling technology for a train route from the mine to the Abbot Point port. In the face of major protests against the plans, the company wants to, according to the CEO Joe Kaeser decide by Monday whether the order will be executed. Kaeser offered the German Fridays for FutureActivist Luisa Neubauer on Friday sits on a supervisory board of the future company Siemens Energy. Neubauer left open whether she would accept the offer. She would “certainly give Kaeser feedback on this”. But that is not the core question of the matter.

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