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New offshore wind farms herald further Humber jobs boom as lease agreements sealed for near North Sea sites

4.5GW of additional capacity set to be built off the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coast

Birmingham Post · Jan 19, 2023

Climate protest not a crime, Greta Thunberg says after detention

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg swiftly resumed campaigning on Wednesday after she was briefly detained in Germany during a protest against a coal mine expansion, tweeting that protecting the climate was not a crime.

Reuters · Jan 18, 2023

Greta Thunberg was detained by German police while protesting a coal mine expansion

Thunberg had traveled to Germany to join protests in the tiny village of Lützerath, which for years has been slated for demolition to make way for the expansion of a nearby open-pit coal mine.

WEKU · Jan 17, 2023

Activists resume protests of German coal mine expansion

German news agency dpa is reporting that dozens of climate activists have glued themselves to a main street in the western Germany city of Cologne and to a state government building in Duesseldorf to protest the destruction of a village to make way for a coal mine expansion

The Independent UK · Jan 17, 2023

Greta Thunberg defies German police as she fights for lost cause

The Swedish activist came to Germany to prevent a corporation from flattening a community to make way for strip mine excavating the most polluting form of coal on earth.

Fortune · Jan 16, 2023

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg manhandled by cops during coal mine demo

Greta, 20, was at a protest in Germany when she was led away by police along with other protesters on Sunday.

Daily Record · Jan 15, 2023

Clearance of German hamlet for mine said to be near-complete

Police say that a village in western Germany that is due to be demolished to allow the expansion of a coal mine has been cleared of activists, apart from a pair who remain holed up in a tunnel

The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2023

Greta Thunberg joins anti-coal activists to save German village

Activists march in Luetzerath against a plan to tear down the village to build a coal mine extension.

Al Jazeera · Jan 14, 2023

Greta Thunberg calls for protest against expansion of German coalmine

Climate activist also denounced ‘police violence’ against campaigners at the abandoned village of Lützerath

The Guardian - UK · Jan 14, 2023

Thunberg joins march on German village in protest against coal mine expansion

Around 6,000 protesters - including climate activist Greta Thunberg - marched through mud and rain to the German village of Luetzerath on Saturday, according to a police estimate, demonstrating against the expansion of an opencast lignite mine.

Reuters · Jan 14, 2023