Ende Gelände – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Fri, 27 Dec 2019 13:28:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Irrational thinking: Merkel’s government stunningly green-lights new coal-fired power plant https://energytransition.org/2019/12/irrational-thinking-merkels-government-stunningly-green-lights-new-coal-fired-power-plant/ https://energytransition.org/2019/12/irrational-thinking-merkels-government-stunningly-green-lights-new-coal-fired-power-plant/#respond Thu, 26 Dec 2019 14:00:51 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21471 Despite all their rhetoric, Angela Merkel’s Grand Coalition government is clearly not all that interested in really powering past coal. The latest evidence is its decision to allow the Uniper-owned 1,200 MW hard coal-fired power plant, Datteln 4, to come online in 2020 — against the recommendations of the Coal Commission. As the government embarks on a bizarre sales campaign peddling the idea that...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2019/12/irrational-thinking-merkels-government-stunningly-green-lights-new-coal-fired-power-plant/feed/ 0 Rheinisch revolutionary weekend: citizen demand more action on climate https://energytransition.org/2019/07/rheinisch-revolutionary-weekend-citizens-demand-more-action-on-climate/ https://energytransition.org/2019/07/rheinisch-revolutionary-weekend-citizens-demand-more-action-on-climate/#comments Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:50:06 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=20107 Determined to push government’s inaction on the climate crisis, activists from Fridays For Future, Ende Gelände, Extinction Rebellion and others poured into western Germany’s brown coal district to use their bodies to shut down Europe’s worst climate killing infrastructure. L. Michael Buchsbaum reports Ende Gelände activists occupy and shutdown RWE’s Garzweiler pit (Photo courtesy Buchsbaum Media)...

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