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Tag: lignite

  • Germany’s Energy Transition: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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    fitzdon

    Immerath, 90 km away from the German city of Cologne, has become a ghost town. The local church bells no longer ring and no children are seen in the streets riding their bicycles. Its former residents have even carried off their dead from its cemetery. Expansion of Garzweiler, an open-pit lignite mine, has led to…