Climate activists erect barricades in Lützerath - Luisa Neubauer expected on Sunday

Created: 2023-01-07 22:28

Climate protection activists have barricaded a street in the lignite village of Lützerath with a caravan and stones.

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In Lützerath, climate activists are preparing to resist the eviction of the site.

Luisa Neubauer is also expected on Sunday.

Erkelenz - In a few days, the Rhenish town of Lützerath in Erkelenz is to be demolished for coal mining.

To prevent this, activists arrived on Saturday.

Shuttle buses brought them to the rough terrain from nearby train stations.

Several new tents were set up in a camp in a field in the neighboring district of Keyenberg.

Coal mining in Lützerath: climate activists are preparing to resist eviction

Climate activist Luisa Neubauer is also expected in Lützerath on Sunday.

Neubauer and other initiatives called on social networks with the hashtag #LuetzerathUnraeumbarsupporters to join the protest against the eviction.

Further barricades were erected on the streets of Lützerath, among other things activists concreted gas bottles into the lanes to make them impassable.

Luisa Neubauer wrote in a post on Instagram: "Anyone who makes destructive deals with RWE and their faxed numbers must learn that a climate-conscious and courageous civil society does not simply accept it." She is referring to RWE's calculations, according to which the Coal is needed for Germany's energy supply, among other things.

"Not true, show independent calculations".

Climate protest in Lützerath: RWE wants to promote coal - NRW wants to clear the village

The energy company RWE wants to demolish Lützerath in order to mine the coal underneath.

Activists living in the hamlet, abandoned by the former residents, have announced opposition.

The black-green NRW state government wants to have the village cleared by the police - possibly in a few days.

The preparations are already underway.

The state government points out that in return the phase-out of coal has been brought forward by eight years to 2030.