Riot police armed with bulldozers removed scores of protestors from a small village in western Germany on Thursday in a second day of confrontations over the expansion of a coal mine.
More than a thousand police officers in riot gear began clearing barricades on Wednesday, removing activists who threw rocks, bottles and Molotov cocktails at police, but hundreds of people are believed holed up at the site and determined to stay.
German energy firm RWE ( OTCPK:RWEOY ) plans to tear down the empty village and dig up lignite coal.
The Garzweiler mine currently extracts ~25M metric tons/year of lignite coal, according to RWE, which has been approved to expand the mine as demand for coal has soared following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
RWE's ( OTCPK:RWEOY ) recent acquisition of Con Edison's Clean Energy business raised its U.S. portfolio growth, turning its project pipeline in the country to 24 GW, Andre Geraldes writes in an analysis published on Seeking Alpha .
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Police evict protestors in German village RWE seeks to raze for coal expansion