1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    also envisages the construction of dozens of small SMR reactors. The mining of the still existing, very deep coal seams in Upper Silesia is becoming more and more complex. The generation of electricity from the lignite reserves that can be used in opencast mining must be gradually reduced in accordance with the EU's climate protection requirements. And only nuclear energy, according to the common argument, is safe with parallel support for wind...

  2. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    Recommends PFAS levels below 500 nanograms per liter, in Canada this limit is 30 ng/l. In the USA the limits were massively tightened a few years ago... * Methane | Opencast lignite mining Study by Umwelthilfe Satellite images from the Hambach opencast mine show dangerous methane emissions Berlin · The greenhouse gas methane has around 80 times as much effect on global warming as CO2. With...

  3. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    commissioned study questions whether an upstream logistics center is even needed. The state government in Hanover also positioned itself against the plans... * Türkiye | Opencast mining | Lignite Deforestation of the Akbelen Forest in Turkey: “Go there, listen” In Turkey, a large forest is to make way for lignite mining. The residents are resisting. Now there was a...

  4. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    Evacuation in Lützerath: Rescue from the tunnel is underway. Special forces are busy rescuing two activists from the tunnel. Thousands flock to Keyenberg for the large demonstration. Some penetrate open pit mines. The day's events in brief. So far, the special forces in Lützerath have not managed to get the two activists out of the self-built tunnel. Access to the...

  5. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    And yet the mines there have been closed since 2005. The Navajo area was particularly attractive to energy companies because the uranium was close to the surface. Initially it was mined in opencast mines. All you had to do was remove the surface of the ground and the uranium ore could be uncovered with little effort. But this mining has contaminated huge areas and contaminated the groundwater...

  6. Newsletter XLVI 2022 - November 16th to 23rd - News+ Now only the wisdom of the Peace of Westphalia can help

    will, but large industries will be able to draw on as much of it as they do today for decades to come? According to research by CORRECTIV, this is exactly the case that could occur: The major users of water, such as open-cast mines, chemical and car factories, have often secured extraction rights from rivers, lakes and groundwater for decades. In the future, these rights could make it easier for citizens...

  7. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    will and what they bring. Climate change causes rivers and regions in Germany to dry up in summer. Brandenburg is particularly affected by this: without the mine water from the brown coal open-cast mining, the water level of the Spree would be significantly lower in the warm season... * World population | growth | Human rights We are eight billion people in the world: growth is rapid and...

  8. Newsletter XLII 2022 - October 23rd to 27th - News+ The fairy tale with primary energy consumption

    endanger investments. In the case of France, the proximity between a lawsuit by the German Encavis AG and the withdrawal announcement is remarkable... ** October 25th Lützerath | Garzweiler opencast mine | Wind turbines demolition Horror at the demolition of wind turbines near Lützerath The first of eight wind turbines has been demolished for the planned brown coal production at the Garzweiler opencast mine. Not only for...

  9. Newsletter XXXV 2022 - September 01st to 08th - News+ No nuclear power plant runtime extensions!

    it was said. The results for the individual types of grain are quite below average. The regional differences are also even more pronounced than in previous years... ** September 03rd, Garzweiler opencast mine | Lützerath "For no coal in this world" - large demonstration against brown coal opencast mining At the Garzweiler opencast mine on Saturday, according to the organizers, 2.000 people called for an end to...

  10. Newsletter XVII 2022 - April 22-27 - News+ How Russia has Europe's nuclear energy in its pockets

    Uranium mining https://www.ecosia.org/search?method=index&q=urangewinnung ** Nuclear power plantsPlag Uranium mining: environmental damage, figures, production Depending on the location of the deposits, uranium ore is usually mined in opencast or underground mining. Open-cast mining leaves large amounts of barren rock and tailings piles with radioactive waste. There is also the so-called in-situ leach process (ISL), in which...

  11. Newsletter XIII 2022 - March 26-31 - News+ A month of war in Ukraine: developing a tragedy

    Deadly fracking US study: Those who live closer to fracking sites die earlier * Energy price | Climate goals Is the excavator coming soon? Lützerath The Münster Higher Administrative Court has approved the village at the Garzweiler opencast mine for demolition for coal mining. Germany's climate goals are in jeopardy. Rejected. This is the decision of the Higher Administrative Court (OVG) in Münster on...

  12. Newsletter XLIX - October 27th to 31.10.2021st, 27 - News+ October XNUMXth - Garching reactor

    the PM and the Twitter messages from the nationwide alliance “Stop the NRW Assembly Act”: https://www.nrw-assemblylaw-stoppen.de/ And tomorrow there will be a big demonstration in Lützerath at the RWE Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine for a real climate protection policy - without coal and nuclear! Last week, RWE suffered its first setback. The resistance in Lützerath is working!...

  13. Newsletter XLVIII - October 21 to 26.10.2021, 21 - News+ October XNUMX - Instead of terrorizing, start a humanitarian program

    https://www.nrw-versammlungsgesetz-stoppen.de/ 3.) Demo Lützerath 31. Oktober - Kohleabbau sofort stoppen! Dieselbe NRW-Landesregierung unterstützt auch weiter RWE beim Abriss der Dörfer am Tagebau Garzweiler. Aktuell geht der Kampf um Lützerath. Es gibt regelmäßig Proteste, darunter jeden Sonntag Dorfspaziergänge. Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober wird daraus eine große Demo werden - dazu rufen wir auf....

  14. Newsletter XLVII - October 13th to 20.10.2021th, 13 - News+ October XNUMXth - Radiant madness

    What is noticeable are three other things that are completely missing: On the one hand, the three parties do not promise any protection against further village demolitions in the Rhineland and East Germany - and in Lützerath at the Garzweiler opencast mine, RWE is currently pushing hard to evict the last residents. Only those working in coal mining receive promises - that is very one-sided and therefore inappropriate....

  15. Newsletter XXXVIII - 26/30.08.2021/26 to 4/XNUMX/XNUMX - News+ August XNUMX - Court declares the development plan of the Datteln XNUMX coal-fired power plant invalid

    Energy used in coal-fired power plants, for heating, in the chemical industry, steel industry and other industries. The coal industry also includes the necessary infrastructure for extraction in opencast mining or mines and transport (e.g. coal ports, coal railways, conveyor belts, etc.). The coal phase-out not only means an end to coal-fired power generation, but also to a certain extent...

  16. THTR Circular No. 138 April 2012

    two nuclear power plants in Germany, holds shares in the Gronau uranium enrichment plant and is even planning new buildings beyond the borders, such as in the Netherlands. As the operator of 3 huge opencast mines and 5 coal-fired power plants in the Rhenish lignite mining area, RWE is Europe's largest CO2 producer. Here too, the group is expanding and is planning massive expansion of the Niederaussen lignite power plant...

  17. Videos and TV clips about the THTR

    Clean energy renovation company Wismut Uranium mining stopped there at the end of 1990, the renovation work is still ongoing today. Highly radioactive 'waste / tailings' is brought back into the former opencast mine... Arte 2013 - 00:52:29 - Nuclear waste off Europe's coasts Sunk and forgotten Between 1946 and 1992 they also dumped parts of their nuclear waste in the sea. It was industrial waste...

  18. THTR Circular No. 100 July 05

    uranium mining began in Namibia. The Rössing mine is located about 65 kilometers from the coastal town of Swakopmund on the edge of the Namib Desert and comprises a large open-cast mine, various processing plants and a dam over an area of ​​around 100 square kilometers through which the liquid waste is dammed into a lake. The opencast mine alone is five kilometers long. Contaminated leachate flows into a...

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