About 150 people from Ende Ende and DeCOALonize Europe Sunday, February 2, for nine hours blocked the site of German power plant Datteln, blocking the loading structure and conveyor belt. According to the organizers of the protest, their actions were directed against the coal law of the Federal government and the devastating conditions of production of imported coal in Russia and Colombia.
"We note today's campaign as a huge success. And this was only the beginning," says Daniel Hofinger, a representative of Bündnis Ende Terrain.
According to the police in Recklinghausen in response to the request of the Agency epd, more than 100 people by force broke into the territory of the plant, which is scheduled to be commissioned in the current year, and took two of the crane.
Activists have called the law on the coal industry prepared by the current government is a disaster. "Today we took Datteln to make it clear to politicians and Uniper concern: we will not tolerate that in 2020 will be put into operation a new coal plant," said the movement's leadership.
"Short-term profits of large corporations should not be more important than life and land rights of indigenous peoples in Siberia or Columbia affected by coal mining. We must finally understand that our economic system is incompatible with the climate justice and aimed at the overcoming of capitalism", - summed up Hofinger.
the Datteln power Plant located near the city of Dortmund, its launch is scheduled for next summer. It belongs to the company Uniper, which is 49.9% owned by the Finnish company Fortum. Initially the power plant was planned for 2011, but the date repeatedly postponed. In the construction of the station was invested 1.5 billion euros.
Previously coalsalesthat in connection with the growing radicalization of environmental activists, private investors avoid contact with new projects in the coal industry, preferring to invest in such lucrative sectors as the production of cannabis and cryptocurrencies.
