Caption

Protest action against the demolition of the village of Lützerath in the Rhenish lignite mining area, which is to make way for the expansion of the Garzweiler II open-cast mine, activists wanted to occupy an excavator, but were stopped by the police at the edge of the spoil heap, Lützerath, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

Oct 31, 2021

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK24J01_208

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No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

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62,3Mb (1,8Mb) / 18,8in x 12,9in / 5639 x 3863 (300dpi)

Keywords

white excavator excavators digger dredger backhoe village villages uniform uniforms politics politics police police power generation power generations energy production power supply electricity supply power supplies energy supply stockpile stockpiles brown coal lignite brown coals coal coals open cast mining strip mining opencast mine opencast mines open cast machine machines maschinery vehicle vehicles car mining mining freedom protection protect shelter Demonstration Demonstrations protest march Demo Protest demonstration Demos Protest demonstrations rally protest marchs protest protests climate climates environmental pollution environmental pollution pollution pollution of the environment environmental contamination ecocide environmental destruction ecocides global warming global warming environment environment North Rhine-Westphalia NRW Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia North-Rhine Westphalia German mining minings Europe Europe's village town place spot media media policeman police officer police officers Policemen climate protection climate control climate protection climate change climate change protect protecting protects protective uniformed safety precaution safety precautions secure save safely protest protesting protests protester demonstrate demonstrating demonstrates free construction machine construction machines Construction machinery Construction machineries political demolition area demolition areas demolition ground demolition site activist activists police edge edges break breaking breaks demolition break breaks demolitions break-off energy source energy sources european environmental pollution ecological damage environmental pollutions power industry energy industry power industries Rhenish tear down tearing down tears demolish demolishing demolishes excavation material excavation materials overburden mine dump attle heap tailings pile tailings pile slag heap spoil heap Rhineland Police operation Police operations Police action Police actions production productions extraction freedom of opinion freedom of opinion occupied fossil energy source fossil energy sources fossil fuel fossil fuels operation operations action duty in use overall overalls safety security Germany German Federal Republic Republic of Germany FRG BRD Several People stopped environmental damage environmental damages ecological damage environmental issue environmental issues activism Jüchen Garzweiler Garzweiler surface mine Garzweiler surface mine Garzweiler opencast lignite mine polluting harmful to the environment Environmentally harmful Bucket-wheel excavator Bucket-wheel excavators Bucket wheel excavator Bucket wheel excavators Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier Rhenish lignite mining region Rhenish lignite mining area riot police Central Europe Middle Europe coal mining coal mine climate crisis Strip mining lignite Strip mining lignite lignite open-pit mining Opencast lignite mining open-cast lignite mine opencast lignite mine Opencast lignite mining area Lignite mining Alternative scene Protest action aborted Spoil edge