Lignite combined Poles and Germans – Money.pl

Lignite combined Poles and Germans – Money.pl

2014-08-23 19:13

[Photo: EPA / PATRICK PLEUL]

/> Several thousand opponents of extracting this material formed a human chain between Brandenburg and Polish, protesting against the expansion of the opencast mining region.

The chain merged afternoon German Kerkwitz city with Polish Grabicami. In the area of ​​both these localities energy companies are planning new mines. Among the participants of the protest was the head of the German Greens Simone Peter and head of the parliamentary faction of the party Anton Hofreiter.

On the German side the protest organizers reported that it was attended by 7.5 thousand. people; Police did not provide any data.

Polish Energy Group (PGE) assumes that the construction of a lignite mine in Gubin could start in 2018, and the construction of power plants by 2025. In May, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in Gubin that the planned investment by PGE is an element of the country’s energy security strategy.

The project is controversial among residents of municipalities Brody and Gubin. Opponents of the energy complex are concerned that the rise will cause displacement, harm the environment and worsen the living conditions of the inhabitants of the surrounding areas.

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There were also representatives of PGE, who watched the event. – watched what has happened on the site of the meeting. Our data suggest that residents really Gubin and Brody were a small group. Therefore, I call all the action more than the inhabitants of environmentalists protest the land on which would arise mine – said Maciej Szczepaniak of PGE.

In Brandenburg collapsed already decided to expand the outcrops near Cottbus (Cottbus), and in Saxony – in the district of Görlitz.