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This seems to be the same lignite mine ("Garzweiler") from this other story. Its expansion's also destroying an entire registered village, with a population of
by perihelions 4y ago
This seems to be the same lignite mine ("Garzweiler") from this other story. Its expansion's also destroying an entire registered village, with a population of around 90.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/world/europe/germany-coal-energy-climate.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/world/europe/germany-coal... ("Germany’s New Hunger for Coal Dooms a Tiny Village")
You can see a wind farm in the background (maybe it's the same one?)
edit: I believe it's the same one. Wikipedia has a map what's going on: the expansion is labelled "Garzweiller II - 2045". The village "Lützerath" is within in boundaries, and there's a "Keyenberg" just north of it. So the Times' photograph's angles would seem reasonable. (The OP doesn't name the wind farm, but the linked Guardian article identifies it as a "Keyenberg").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzweiler_surface_mine#/media/File:Rheinisches_Braunkohlerevier_DE.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzweiler_surface_mine#/media... (map)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagebau_Garzweiler#/media/Datei:Garzweiler_surface_mine_a61_wanlo_2019_2.jpg https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagebau_Garzweiler#/media/Date... (aerial view)