Anti-coal power movement

Protest against the Garzweiler II opencast mine in 2008. In April 2015, 6,000 people demonstrated there.

Protests against coal power in Washington (2009)

The anti-coal power movement , often just called the anti-coal movement for short , is a social movement that, as part of the environmental movement, advocates phasing out coal and the establishment of renewable energies and opposes the use of coal -fired power generation.

The anti-coal power movement directed approximately protests, signature actions or actions against the construction of new coal power plants (eg. As power plant Ensdorf , power plant dates , coal power plant Moorburg ) or against the operation of brown coal mines . In the UK and US in particular, the divestment movement is asking large investors - such as pension funds, foundations, religious institutions or universities - to withdraw capital from financial investments related to fossil fuels in general, and specifically related to coal power.

Actions

• In August 2014, 7,500 demonstrators formed a German-Polish human chain in the Lusatian lignite mining district. The cross-border human chain connected the two villages of Atterwasch (Germany) and Grabice (Poland), which are threatened with demolition.
• In April 2015 around 6000 people demonstrated with a human chain at the Garzweiler opencast mine in the Rhenish lignite district.
• In May 2016 1.600 demonstrators laid at protests end area in 2016 , the Vattenfall power plant Schwarze Pumpe lame. The campaign was part of the globally coordinated Break free 2016 campaign . The CEO of Vattenfall Europe Mining, Hartmuth Zeiß, commented on the campaign with the words: "It is an absolutely new quality that a power plant should be forced to stop production and thus intervene directly in the German power supply system".

See also

• Divestment (fossil energies)
• End of story, nothing to add
• Hambach Forest
• Climate movement

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, Demonstration against open-cast coal mining in Garzweiler: Human chain at Germany's largest hole , April 25, 2015
2. ↑ "The anti-coal power movement celebrates its first triumphs". Die Welt, December 2, 2007, accessed May 2, 2015 . 
3. ↑ "Datteln coal power plant before the end: a legal slap in the face". Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 17, 2010, accessed on May 2, 2015 . 
4. ↑ "The Anti-Coal Movement". Die Zeit, April 23, 2008, accessed on May 2, 2015 . 
5. ^ "The anti-coal chain". Rheinische Post, April 25, 2015, accessed on May 2, 2015 . 
6. ^ The Guardian, Keep it in the Ground divestment campaign attracts 200,000 supporters , May 7, 2015
7. ↑ Taz [1]
8. ↑ [2]
9. ↑ FAZ activists slow down Vattenfall