Skillshare 7.-9.2.25, Hambi-Suendi

https://hambacherforst.org/blog/2025/02/05/suendi-skillshare-7-9-feb-2025-deu-eng/
#braunkohle,#systemchange,#waterjustice,#naturschutz,#roteliste
#fledermaus,#haselmaus,#käfer,#lignite
#fossilfree,#abraum
#herrschaft,#naturzerstörung
#anarchie,#frieden, #peace
#klimakiller, #rwe
#nrw, #wald,#forest, #ökosystem
#kapitalismus, #überleben,#extinktion
#capitalism, #anarchy,#nofuture
#kohleausstieg, #future, #nature

1/ How German #electricity generation, consumption and imports changed 2024 vs. 2023

Key takeaways:
Hard #coal and #lignite declined substantially and are now on a record low.
#Nuclear power phased out completely in 2024.
Onshore #wind: not a great wind year, combined with sluggish capacity expansion, led to a slight reduction.
Offshore wind: moderate capacity increase led to some growth which over-compensated the reduction of onshore wind.

Question to English mother tongue speaker:
1) Would you call a #lignite digging company a 'coal' producer?
2) Is digging for lignite in an open pit a #coal mine?

Germany to shut down seven more coal power plant units as country exits winter

The units (combined capacity of 3.1 GW) will finally be shut down at end of March, after their decommissioning had been postponed due to the #energycrisis

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-shut-down-seven-more-coal-power-plant-units-country-exits-winter #lignite

Germany to shut down seven more coal power plant units as country exits winter

The units (combined capacity of 3.1 GW) will finally be shut down at the end of March, after their decommissioning had been postponed due to the #energycrisis

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-shut-down-seven-more-coal-power-plant-units-country-exits-winter #lignite #coalexit #climateaction #CO2

Germany hasn't increased #Lignite use after phasing out nuclear. In fact, lignite mining is now as low as in 1920's.

https://mastodon.green/@VQuaschning/112009261005651403

If #Germany had kept its 2021 #nuclear capacity, it would have been able to shut down all its #=coal-fired power stations and part of its #gas-fired ones. With the nuclear capacity of 2017, #lignite (which is even dirtier than coal) could have been eliminated.

What #energiewende doing? You can't be fucking serious! #germany #pollution #coal #lignite

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-04/germany-orders-three-old-lignite-plants-to-operate-in-winter

Typical German situation. A large #lignite excavator blocks a road.
People who pretend to be "green" moan and complain about it and call it "climate terrorism".
These same people though, celebrated the nuclear shutdown.
But this is what you get when shutting down clean, non-fossil power. More fossil fuel usage. #nuclearpower #energiewende #stupid

In January we travelled to #Lützerath to protest #RWE at the #lignite mine Garzweiler. Afterwards I conducted five interviews with participants. The text is now published in the Atlas of The Other Worlds.

#Occupyclimatechange
#coal

https://occupyclimatechange.net/lutzerath/

#Texas Permits #Lignite Mine Expansion Despite Water Worries.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23082023/texas-mine-expansion-water-worries/

This one bears watching. One huge #coal plant plus an enormous #lignite mine needs to be replaced by many pieces that need to fall in place together to provide the necessary jobs, all while the AfD is spreading misinformation to the already skittish local residents.
I hope they pull it off.

The re-training / generous retirement offers help but the jobs need to materialise.

#Leag #Germany EnergyTransition
https://www.ft.com/content/2488d434-bbd3-4e63-ac88-1e5a2c3967d2

#HambiBleibt stays accessible as a virtual Panorama by @Muellers_Kabinett.
On https://virtual-hambi.de/ you can walk through virtual panoramas and get an impression of how Camp and tree houses in Hambach Forest looked in 2016 - 2018.
Of course without people and action, but with mud :-)
The green forest in the pictures likely died in the meantime because #RWE pumped out the ground water.
#LuetziBleibt #ClimateChange #Lignite #RWE #HambacherForst #HambachForest

Action at the main headquarters of RWE in Essen. Activisti have chained themselves to the gate with locks, another 30 block the road.

They demand:
Immediate stop of #Eviction of #Luetzerath.
Moratorium on #Luetzerathbleibt
The #lignite remains in the ground

A personal anecdote.

Years years years ago I studied #geography in Utrecht and we had an excursion in the area around #Luetzerrath and #Hambi, watching the open #lignite mines. It was probably the first time in my life that I stood face to face with the destructible force called humanity!

I never understood that after all those years, the German state never had the decency to stop this monster. And than I'm not even talking about the #pollution and #climate impact. Because in the nineties we already knew about this. All politicians and all businessman should be held responsible for this! Incl. the ecological traitors called #DieGrunen!

The activists in Luetzerrath are the true heroes of our time! Maximum #solidarity for you!