luetzerath. what happens in luetzerath doesn't stay in luetzerath.orld, has an enormous responsibility. wielding batons on demonstrators. scuffles quickly broke out with police clad in riot gear the village of luetzerath is set to disappear to make way for the extension of an adjacent coal mine, owned by energy firm rwe. coal is the single biggest contributor to climate change. the protesters�* battle has been a long one with demonstrators occupying the hamlet for almost two years, but it's recently intensified with the german government arguing the coal is needed in the short term to replace lost energy supplies from russia. because we want to have sanctions effective enough that leads us to foregoing gas and oil supplies from russia. we need to replace that. and how to replace it, if not by coal? and unfortunately, the kind of coal germany mostly has is lignite, which is the most polluting of all the kind of coals that you have. germany's economy minister has called luetzerath "the final "frontier" — and says it's the last place that ground coal wi

because it is still in the ground, we are still here, luetzerath is still there.

energy company, rwe, wants to demolish the abandoned luetzerath village — which it owns — so that itfamiliar face among the crowds. the fact that all of you are here is a sign of hope. this is only a part of a much larger global climate movement, a movement for climate and socialjustice and racialjustice. lutzerath, what happens in lutzerath doesn't stay in lutzerath. germany, as one of the biggest polluters in the world, has an enormous responsibility. but scuffles quickly broke out, with police clad in riot gear wielding batons on demonstrators. the village of lutzerath is set to disappear to make way for the extension of an adjacent coal mine owned by energy firm rwe. coal is the single biggest contributor to climate change. the protesters' battle has been a long one, with demonstrators occupying the hamlet for almost two years. but it's recently intensified, as the german government argues the coal is needed in the short term to replace lost energy supplies from russia. because we want to have sanctions effective enough that leads us to foregoing gas and oil supplies from russia,