Caption

Lignite opencast mine Garzweiler, bucket wheel excavator mining overburden, coal, near Jüchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK24E76_282

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NA

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No

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Rights managed

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172,3Mb (13,1Mb) / 31,7in x 21,1in / 9504 x 6336 (300dpi)

Keywords

Bucket wheel excavator Bucket-wheel excavator Central Europe Coal Excavator Construction machinery Environmentally harmful Europe FRG Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia Garzweiler Garzweiler opencast lignite mine Garzweiler surface mine German German Federal Republic Germany Jüchen Lignite Excavator Lignite mining Middle Europe NRW No People North Rhine-Westphalia North-Rhine Westphalia Opencast lignite mining Opencast lignite mining area Power generation Republic of Germany Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier Rhenish lignite mining area Rhenish lignite mining region Rhineland Strip mining lignite attle heap backhoe brown coal car coal coal mining construction machine deserted digger dredger ecocide ecological damage electricity electricity generation electricity supply empty energy energy industry energy production energy source energy supply environment environmental contamination environmental damage environmental destruction environmental issue environmental pollution european excavation material excavator extraction fossil energy source fossil fuel generation of current generation of electricity harmful to the environment layer lignite lignite open-pit mining machine make manufacture maschinery material mine dump mining natural resource no one nobody open cast mining open-cast lignite mine opencast lignite mine opencast mine overburden polluting pollution pollution of the environment power generation power industry power supply produce production raw material slag heap stockpile strip mining tailings pile uninhabited vehicle