Lützerath: How Germany’s energy crisis reignited coal
29 December 2022 |
6:09 pm
Germany had been winding down its brown coal production. Then an energy crisis hit. Now thousands of people have promised to resist January plans to demolish a village and dig up the coal beneath it.
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