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    The Tagebau Garzweiler (German pronunciation: [ˈtaːɡəbaʊ̯ ˈɡaʁt͜sˌʋaɪ̯lɐ]) is a surface mine (‹See Tfd›German: Tagebau) in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia...
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    Germany portal Energy portal Ende Gelände 2017 Ende Gelände 2018 Garzweiler open pit mine Commission on Growth, Structural Change and Employment Rheinisches...
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    Lützerath (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    expansion of the Garzweiler surface mine; in January 2023, Lützerath was eradicated to make way for the opencast mining of Garzweiler II ; it will eventually...
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    mining technique that extracts rock or minerals from the earth. Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially useful ore or rocks are found near...
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    protests Fruta del Norte mine Garzweiler surface mine Konkola Copper Mines La Colosa mine Lake Natron Las Bambas copper mine 2015 Peruvian protests against...
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    Mining (redirect from Mine (industry))
    potential of a proposed mine, extraction of the desired materials, and final reclamation or restoration of the land after the mine is closed. Mining materials...
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    Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier (category Coal mines in Germany)
    Horst and the Erft bend to the east and extends with the Garzweiler I and II opencast mines as far as Jüchen and Erkelenz, with the lignite seams extending...
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    Ende Gelände (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    occupations around the Garzweiler and Lusatian open pit mines, Germany Ende Gelände 2020, occupation of Garzweiler open pit mine and also a gas pipeline...
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    Department Sukari – gold mine Tagebau Garzweiler – lignite mine Tagebau Hambach – lignite mine Tagebau Inden – lignite mine Hutti – gold mine in Raichur District...
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    exists due to lignite mining (Garzweiler surface mine). The original source of the Köhm was in the area between Garzweiler and Kaiskorb. Here, at an altitude...
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    Church of St. Lambertus, Immerath (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Immerath in order to make way for the Garzweiler surface mine. A new smaller church with the same dedication [de] was built as its replacement in Immerath-Neu...
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    Ende Gelände 2019 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    centered on the Garzweiler open pit mine of the Rhenish lignite mining area [de]. Protests also took place in the Lusatian lignite mining area [de] between 29...
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    Bagger 288 (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    the Tagebau Hambach mine and was no longer needed there. In three weeks it made a 22-kilometre (14 mi) trip to the Tagebau Garzweiler, travelling across...
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    Church of St. Martin, Borschemich (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Borschemich in order to make way for the Garzweiler surface mine. A new smaller church with the same dedication [de] was built as its replacement in Neu-Borschemich...
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    the Hambach lignite mine. On 15 August 2015, in the first year of Ende Gelände, 1500 activists blocked the Garzweiler surface mine owned by RWE (Ende Gelände...
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    Ende Gelände 2016 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    in the first year of Ende Gelände, 1500 activists blocked the Garzweiler surface mine owned by RWE (Ende Gelände 2015). Ende Gelände formed in 2015 as...
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    Bundesautobahn 44 (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    traffic on 14 October 2005. The reason for the closure was the open mine at Garzweiler II. Before this section was closed, the Bundesautobahn 61 was widened...
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    Type SRs 8000 bucket-wheel excavator (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Extreme Engineering" (PDF). HELMo — Haute École Libre Mosane. p. 7. "Garzweiler: Bagger 288". "Bagger 288 – The World's Largest Excavator". Oddity Central...
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    vehicles parked near a quarry in Israel Bucket wheel excavators in Garzweiler surface mine, Germany Wheel loader Grader cleaning and leveling Heavy duty excavator...
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    Lignite (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of moisture, which partially explains its low carbon content. Lignite is mined all around the world and is used almost exclusively as a fuel for steam-electric...
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    Rheindahlen (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Bay are very thick in places and are mined in large open-cast pits (in the area of Rheindalen in the Garzweiler Mine); The brown coal seam of Morken has...
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    DEA AG (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    in rescuing 14 miners who were trapped for many days in a collapsed coal mine in Lengede, Lower Saxony. They did so, together with others, by applying...
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  • Osnabrück. In 1922, it expanded its coal business by acquiring three anthracite mines in Essen and a majority stake in the lignite company Braunkohlen- und Briketwerke...
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    state of Germany from demolition by RWE, which wants to expand the Garzweiler surface mine. The camp was set up on the land of a farmer resisting eviction...
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    close at the end of March 2013. On 22 March 2013, Didcot A closed and the de-commissioning process began. In 2007, Didcot was identified as a possible...
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    Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Nuclear Power Plant Innogy Nordsee 1 Garzweiler surface mine Gundremmingen Nuclear Power Plant Hambach surface mine Lingen Nuclear Power Plant Mittelplate...
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    Greta Thunberg (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    nearby coal mine. She was detained along with other activists by German police while demonstrating at the opencast coal mine of Garzweiler 2, around 9 km...
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    The supply of brown coal was ensured by seams on a north-south course ("Garzweiler"). Before blocks A and B first produced power, the construction work for...
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    Upstream Online. NHST Media Group. 10 July 2009. Retrieved 11 July 2009. de Leon, Phillip H. (18 November 2009). "The Great Geopolitical Battle Over Energy...
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  • List of destroyed heritage (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    demolition of the entire village to make way for an expansion of the Garzweiler surface mine. The church had been added to the list of heritage monuments in...
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