Erkelenz (dpa / lnw) - The village of Lützerath, inhabited by climate activists, on the edge of the Garzweiler opencast lignite mine has been disconnected from the power grid since Tuesday. Living in some abandoned and squatted houses, the coal opponents said they now want to build more solar panels for their own power supply. You spoke of an escalation of the conflict over climate protection in opencast lignite mining.
According to the energy company RWE, the power supply was disconnected from the grid due to demolition work in the run-up to the opencast mine and in the former Immerath settlement. Lützerath is also affected.
According to the NRW Ministry of the Interior, the hamlet belonging to the city of Erkelenz is expected to be cleared in January. About a hundred coal opponents live here in tents, tree houses and squatted buildings. They declared that they want to fight for the place. Land and houses belong to RWE.
At the beginning of October, the green-led economics ministries in the federal government and North Rhine-Westphalia agreed with the energy company RWE to phase out coal in the Rhenish Revier by 2030. This includes the preservation of several villages in the vicinity of the opencast mine, but also the excavation of Lützerath in order to mine the coal underneath.
