Schwarze Pumpe lignite opponents put Vattenfall power plant shut – SPIEGEL ONLINE

The event was planned perfectly: With the occupation of an open pit and track blockades it is well over a thousand protesting environmentalists managed to interrupt the fuel supply of the Vattenfall lignite power plant Schwarze Pumpe.

In order to manage with the existing on-site coal reserves longer, the performance of the power plant was shut down as a precaution, a spokesman for Vattenfall. The Group looked forward to the police to take action against the action.

On Friday Vattenfall had filed a criminal complaint for state and trespassing, assault and disturbance of public enterprises. “Maybe join other offenses into consideration,” said a company spokesman.

“end area” was organized the successful blockade by the Action Alliance, have in the merged numerous groups of citizens groups and environmental organizations. Since Friday, the Alliance demonstrated for an immediate abolition of lignite. The protests in Welzow-Süd and at the Schwarze Pumpe power plant proceeded according to the police on Saturday without any major incidents.

The aim of the activists, the protest and the blockade is “as long as possible” maintain.

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“fossil fuels cause climate change, and from fossil fuels is the lignite of the dirtiest,” said Tadzio Müller of the action alliance. According to the Action Alliance broke on Saturday morning more than 2,000 people with bicycles, on foot and in buses to a blockade of the black pump on.

In the afternoon, a group blocked the tracks on the west side of the power plant, as a spokeswoman said by the end of terrain. Also on the railway line leading northward activists had chained. Already on Friday occupied the environmentalists the nearby Welzow-Süd and laid it quietly so. Around 200 activists block a loading crane, spent on the site the night.

The police allowed the protesters largely grant. Prosecutors have not shared the information in the complaint facts, said spokeswoman Ines Filohn of the police department in South Cottbus. One protester was taken into custody after he repeatedly ignored a red card.

details of the action alliance that seven activists were injured on Friday night in a scuffle with pepper spray, the police did not confirm. A spokesman said that the actions of the protesters “not safe” is. Several people had climbed on large appliances such Braunkohlebagger.

Vattenfall had recently announced its entire German lignite division for sale with mines and power plants in the Czech energy company EPH and the financial investor PPF Investments. The group wants to concentrate more on the eco-friendly energy.