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Climate change: German Green Party supporters feel betrayed

There has been much dismay over the Green Party leadership's compromise with 'big coal' that led to the demolition of the village of Lützerath. Will this drive the environmentalist party to breaking point?
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Greta Thunberg detained by police at Germany coal mine protest

German authorities have now razed the village of Lützerath, but activists continued to demonstrate against the expansion of a coal mine.
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In doomed coal village, Germany’s Greens go to war among themselves

The political party responsible for the pepper spray, the bulldozers and a coal deal with one of Germany’s biggest energy companies was the Greens. And every protester here on Saturday knew it.

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German police evict protesters from Lutzerath to make way for coal mine

Columns of security personnel poured into Lutzerath on Wednesday, dismantling treehouses and detaining dozens of demonstrators, making quick work of clearing large areas where they had set up camp.

Germany's new hunger for coal dooms a tiny village

Germany's new hunger for coal dooms a tiny village

The cutting of Russian gas supplies to Europe has led Germany to step up coal use, despite its goal to phase it out by 2030.
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Germany to demolish village for coal, despite phaseout plans

The pastoral village of Lützerath in western Germany will be bulldozed to make way for a coal mine, even as the country accelerates its plans to quit the world’s dirtiest source of energy.

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