Europe's biggest economy has sacrificed climate change policies in order to keep the lights on.
Germany's Garzweiler mine could hardly be more symbolic of the conundrum facing much of Europe right now.tearing down wind turbines to make way for more coal extractionFrom an environmental point of view this is fairly obviously not good. Coal is the dirtiest of all fossil fuels.
Officers climbed ladders to reach protesters perched on roofs and walls in Luetzerath, which energy firm RWE wants to clear to expand its energy facility. The problem is that coal may be dirty but it is cheap and reliable and the infrastructure to get it out of the ground and into power stations already exists and functions perfectly well.and subsequent energy shock, particularly due to the availability of Russian gas, Germany believes it could be the difference between business as usual and rolling blackouts.Poland is expanding coal production and Bulgaria is extending the life of its coal mines.
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