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The Replace Coal campaign (spelling: Coal erSeten!) Was initiated by JunepA and other individuals who work for climate justice . The activists have been organizing actions of civil disobedience against the mining and generation of electricity from lignite since 2017 and call for non-violent sit-ins against coal infrastructure. In the summer of 2018, around 350 people blocked the Lippendorf power plant . In 2017, significantly fewer people took part in the blockades on the access roads to the Neurath power plant . The activists are demanding a consistent coal phase-out and rapid structural change. Power generation from coal must be replaced immediately by renewable energies and consumption savings. The activists refer, among other things, to reports by the IPCC to underline the urgency of the demands. Climate justice must be implemented with a global perspective.

Rhenish lignite district

The sit-ins of coal replace 2017 on the access roads of the Neurath power plant in the Rhenish lignite mining area could be maintained for several hours. There were arrests when the police subsequently cleared the blockade. Some activists have been accused of violating the assembly law. Fines were imposed. The following year there was also a trial at the Grevenbroich District Court , in which two activists were convicted.

Activists of "replace coal goes end area" were also in 2018 with a smaller strategic sit-in on the highway 257 of the large-scale operation by the end of terrain bound, police forces and other activists so facilitated the blockade of the rails. The sit-in was broken up by the police and some of the activists were taken into custody. The actions were directed against the coal- fired power generation of RWE Power AG and the activists, citing climate justice and climate protection , demanded the "immediate coal phase-out ".

Together with the Alliance All Villages Remain , replace blocked coal under the motto "Not a meter of coal!" For one day the construction work on Landstrasse 354n, also known as "Grubenrandstrasse". The construction of this road is "useless" and a "mockery of all those who are determined to stay in their villages". According to RWE, this road replaces a road near Keyenberg and Kuckum , which are to give way to the opencast mine .

Coal blocked in August 2019 replace access to the Garzweiler opencast mine and trucks had to make detours at the Frimmersdorf power plant , and coal trains on the neighboring tracks were also canceled for a few hours.

Central German lignite district

The blockade of all entrances to the Lippendorf power plant on August 4, 2018, with around 350 people, was cleared by the police after about three hours at one of the entrances, in some cases with the use of immediate force. Some activists have been taken into custody. The action was also directed against the companies Mibrag and Leag , which replenished coal reserves in advance of the announced protests. The power plant did not have to be throttled, but the shift change was impaired by the sit-ins.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipziger Internet Zeitung: MIBRAG stirs up the mood, police drive up with armored vehicles, parties criticize the propaganda - L-IZ.de. Retrieved on February 7, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Malte Kreutzfeldt: Action against Lippendorf power plant: lignite power plant blocked . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 5, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Patricia Hecht: Climate protest "End of the terrain": Symbolic disturbances . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 26, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Activists surround lignite power station. Retrieved on February 7, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ REPLACE COAL - WHAT? - Replace Coal! Retrieved on February 7, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Coal and climate change - replace coal! Retrieved on February 7, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Press Releases - Replace Coal! Retrieved on February 7, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Sebastian Weiermann Erkelenz: Red line against brown coal in the Rhineland (new Germany). Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Christian Kandzorra: judgment of the District Court Grevenbroich: activists will have to pay fines for power plant blockade. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Replace Coal !: We have achieved our goal: We are blocking one of the most important police roads. @Ende__Gelaende: you can do it! Pic.twitter.com/mZBar8AZjw. In: @Kohle_erSetzen. October 27, 2018, accessed February 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Meike Baars: "I don't just want to watch": Osnabrück activist blocked a street for hours - why? Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Get out of the coal, Hambi stays! In October to the Hambach Forest, the place of resistance against climate destruction! In: end of terrain. Retrieved on February 7, 2019 (German).
  13. ^ Trial of peace activists: Strolling on the Büchel runway. SWR, accessed on November 23, 2017 .
  14. ↑ coal opponents protest on highway in Erkelenz-Kuckum. May 27, 2019, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  15. ^ Kurt Lehmkuhl: Protest near Golf Club Haus Wildenrath: 60 activists block road construction at the Garzweiler opencast mine. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  16. ^ Patzer Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Berlin Germany: Activists block road construction site at the Garzweiler opencast mine. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Leipziger Internet Zeitung: Garzweiler opencast mine surrounded by blockades - L-IZ.de. Accessed April 13, 2020 (German).
  18. ↑ WDR: Rheinisches Revier: Environmental activists blocked the Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine. August 24, 2019, accessed on April 13, 2020 .
  19. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Peaceful protest at the Garzweiler opencast mine. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  20. ^ Anett Selle: Protests in the Rhenish lignite district: sit-ins around RWE . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 25, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  21. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: Demo in front of the power plant near Leipzig: sit-ins against the demolition of a 700 year old village. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  22. ↑ mdr.de: Ticker for the day of action in Pödelwitz | MDR.DE. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Environmental activists block access to the power plant. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Mibrag is preparing for the climate camp. Retrieved February 9, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Malte Kreutzfeldt: Action against Lippendorf power plant: lignite power plant blocked . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 5, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).