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Luisa Neubauer in Lützerath (together with the Kenyan climate activist Elizabeth Wahuti in October 2022)
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Climate activist Luisa Neubauer has called for resistance to the eviction of Lützerath in the Rhenish lignite mining area.
The village must be "defended with all your might," wrote Neubauer on Twitter.
"Anyone who wants social peace and climate protection, campaigns politically for a moratorium on evictions from Lützerath - or defends the village with us," wrote the climate activist: "Every day counts, it's 2023 and we don't have another village to lose.
See you in Lützerath.«
Police on Tuesday continued their preparations for the evacuation planned for mid-month.
Areas around the village would be developed for the logistics of the large-scale operation, said a police spokesman.
Green wrong way?
Lützerath near Erkelenz in the district of Heinsberg is to be dredged for coal extraction.
Buildings and land belong to the energy group RWE.
"Using the former settlement this winter is necessary to ensure a secure supply of the power plants in the midst of the energy crisis," emphasizes RWE.
Luisa Neubauer denies that. "The coal under Lützerath is not needed for energy security in the crisis," she wrote: "This is shown by independent reports." The Greens based their decision on figures that came from RWE.
But these are "demonstrably wrong".
The Greens, which govern together with the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia, are on the wrong track.
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The Green NRW Economics and Climate Protection Minister Mona Neubaur, on the other hand, defends the decision to dig up Lützerath by saying that the coal phase-out was brought forward eight years from 2038 to 2030 and five other villages in the Rhenish lignite mining area would be saved from destruction.
Neubauer, who is a member of the Greens herself, countered: "The deal between the Greens and RWE (coal phase-out comes sooner, a village will die for it) should be considered a fair 'compromise' that the climate movement must like." Crucial is rather the Paris climate agreement.
Studies have shown that Germany can only comply with the Paris climate agreement if the coal lying beneath Lützerath is not used.
Neubauer's conclusion: "The deal is less a compromise than a break with Paris."
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