German activists gear up to block opening of coal-fired power plant
13 January 2020 - 17:05
Frankfurt/Berlin — Germany’s plans to scrap coal as a power-generation fuel are off to an inauspicious start with the scheduled opening of a new plant set to spew greenhouse gas pollution for almost two decades.
Protesters are already preparing to disrupt the opening of Uniper’s Datteln-4 plant in June and could turn the utility into the latest flash point in Germany’s increasingly fractious debate about the fossil fuel that still generates about a third of the country’s electricity...
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