More than 1000 climate activists have blocked a lignite mine in Proschim and the Schwarze Pumpe power plant. The activists of the group “end area” see themselves as part of the global environmental movement. Prime Minister of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke (SPD) told the Tagesspiegel on Saturday: “I am worried about the factory occupation in Proschim. For the first time an operating open pit has been occupied. “He warned against a too rapid withdrawal from lignite mining and lignite-. “First we have to make the unreliable renewables reliable energy, only then can we talk about coal exit.”
After the occupation of the factory site on lignite-fired power plant Schwarze Pumpe in Lausitz are on Saturday night 120 demonstrators were taken into custody. After skirmishes with the police, there were also two injured. It was the protest, which lasted since Friday night, initially peaceful.
Already on Friday night have occupied a lignite mine in Proschim in Lausitz about 700 young people. Most stayed there, reports the organization “end site”, which had called for the occupation. On Saturday, the activists blocked also the access routes to the lignite power plant Schwarze Pumpe to their demands for a phasing out of environmentally harmful energy production emphasis. Several hundred people have chained to tracks leading to the power plant. The power plant has been throttled, the work in open pit had been set as early as Thursday initially. Police Directorate South reported two arrests. Next she reported: “Three persons had concreted on an operating track of the coal train in Roggosen and were separated at the present day by specialist police from the railway track.”
Vattenfall requires the evacuation
Also on Saturday, had environmental organizations, parties and protest networks such Campact and Attac called for a mass demonstration in the coal mining area. More than 1,500 people responded to this call. Overall, several thousand people took part in several locations in the protests.
The operator Vattenfall has shown hundreds squatters on Friday and Saturday. first tried to persuade the police to evacuate the premises. But the accountability of the police forces that came already clear on Friday night that it “is not the work of protection of Vattenfall” were. The police decided to use a non-confrontational strategy. In the past year there had been at a similar protest action of “end area” in the Rhenish mining area injured. The case against the then temporarily detained protesters have now been set, however.
Prime Minister Woidke: This is not a playground within
Prime Minister of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke (SPD) criticized the site occupation. “This is not a playground, which is possible Rutschungsgebiet which is dangerous for everyone involved. For the protesters, but also for the police and the workers, “he told the Tagesspiegel. He continued, “to the storage technologies are applicable, we need the coal.” The state government had approved the extension of two lignite mines in the past year and, in its energy concepts assumes that lignite could continue for decades remain in the German energy mix. “With me it will not happen that we adjust in the Lausitz from coal to simultaneously meet our electricity needs with Czech coal or Polish nuclear power,” Woidke said. .In Poland Although sites have been designated for nuclear power plants. So far no investor has there but found to build a kiln.
Worldwide protests against the coal
The protests in the Lausitz are among a wave of demonstrations that took place two weeks since early May around the world against climate destructive coal mining and the combustion have. Under the motto “Break free from fossil fuels” (Liberate us from fossil fuels us) found on Saturday at the same time in Brazil protests instead. Previously, there were demonstrations in Colombia and Ecuador, in South Africa and the USA. Coordinates the actions, the climate movement 350.org.
Activists in Lausitz have transferred their protests since its beginning on Friday night live all over the world. A live stream on the Internet showing young people in white protective suits, which run in a long queue on coal stockpiles or approaching through the forest to the power plant. Morning at seven o’clock on Saturday again life into anti-coal camp. The protests should continue until the whit.
The leader of “end area” Hannah Eichberger said on Saturday: “Germany is the world champion in burning dirty lignite. Therefore we take the coal withdrawal into their own hands and turn off one of the biggest climate killer in Europe. “Already on Friday have state and federal Green MEP visited the protest camp. They gave as “Parliamentary observers” between demonstrators and police. “On Friday night it was completely peaceful,” the Bundestag Annalena Baerbock told the Tagesspiegel. On Saturday would some who had climbed to the loading cranes, however, “have shown that they want to provoke,” she said.
counter-demonstrations there were no
The green faction leader in parliament in Brandenburg, Axel Vogel, praised the “de-escalating strategy of the police and the consensus of the organizers to refrain from any violence against people or property” , Both would also be kept in mind. He is pleasantly surprised, “how many have participated in the actions.” He said, however, before the clashes between protesters and police had begun.
The activists of “end area” and editors of the Berlin “daily” but reported in the late afternoon by a police vessel and injured during the evacuation of the site in Schwarze Pumpe.
counter-demonstrations by coal supporters there were none. Roadside a few coal supporters had been reported Baerbock. The initiative “Pro Lausitz”, which wants to ensure that the open-cast mines are expanded, however, have “posters everywhere hung” on which the text was to read “No violence”.
After the activists had spent the night on Saturday in mining, they wanted to stay in on Sunday at their protest camp by Monday in the region.
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