Caption

Steam rises from the cooling towers of the Vattenfall power plant in Jaenschwalde on 9 December 2014 The energy company Vattenfall extracts lignite for power generation in the surrounding opencast mines in Brandenburg, Jaenschwalde, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe

Date

Dec 09, 2014

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Eckel

Reference

BRK24D31_450

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No

Property release

NA

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Rights managed

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46,1Mb (1,3Mb) / 16,4in x 10,9in / 4918 x 3279 (300dpi)

Keywords

Central Europe East Germany Eastern Germany Environmentally harmful Europe Europe's FRG Factory plant German German Federal Republic Germany Jaenschwalde Middle Europe No People Power generation Republic of Germany Vattenfall brown coal brown coal power station brown coal power stations brown coals building buildings coal coal power station coal power stations coal-fired power plant coals construction cooling tower cooling towers deserted ecocide ecocides ecological damage electricity electricity generation electricity supply emission emissions empty energy industry energy production energy source energy sources energy supply environment environmental contamination environmental damage environmental damages environmental destruction environmental issue environmental issues environmental pollution environmental pollutions european exhaust gas factories factory flue gas fossil energy source fossil energy sources fossil fuel fume generation of current generation of electricity harmful to the environment industrial industrial building industrial buildings industries industry lignite lignite-fired power plant mining minings no one nobody open cast mining opencast mine plant polluting pollution pollution of the environment power generation power generations power industries power industry power plant power plants power station power supplies power supply steaming strip mining structure tower towers uninhabited waste gas Brandenburg Brandenburg state Land Brandenburg State of Brandenburg electricity provider energies energy energy company energy supplier extraction power supplier power suppliers production productions smoke smoking steam water vapor water vapour