Climate Impact Assessment for Sustainable Structural …

The Rhenish lignite mining region is facing enormous structural changes due to the withdrawal from opencast mining. The current planning of the regional transformation process, however, has so far only insufficiently considered the local impacts of climate change and thus also existing needs for action as well as opportunities in the …

RESEARCH Open Access Perspectives of lignite post

e western lignite mining district in the Rhineland extends over an area of 2500 km2 ... focus of lignite mining today in Germany (lignite produc - tion in 2021: 62.6 Mt; see Table 1). ...

in front of what used to be the largest lignite-fired power …

Before the first of the seven power plant units here were decommissioned in 2021, it was the largest lignite-fired power plant in Germany in terms of installed …

Governance Policies for a "Just Transition" – A Case Study in …

The Rhineland lignite mining district has good logistical links to a large number of research institutions. The renowned RWTH Aachen University, as well as one of the largest research institutions in Europe, the Forschungszentrum Jülich, are both located in the heart of the lignite region.

Germany retires more reactors and lignite plants

The end of 2021 also brought the shutdown of 300 MW lignite-fired units in the Rhenish lignite mining area, namely RWE's Neurath B, Niederaussem C and …

Sehrig, Michael; Dähnhardt, Gesa; Berkner, Andreas; …

directly affects trends in opencast mining since most of the lignite mined in 2020 was burned to generate electricity: 88.6% (Rhineland 83.9%, central Germany 91.4%, Lusatia 93.3%) (Frenz/ Preuße 2021). From the reserves approved at the end of 2020 (3.35 billion tonnes, of which 2.1 are in the

Structural Change in the Rhineland Mining Area

The fact that a comprehensive transition now is literally inevitable for this region, is a consequence of the lignite mining phase-out, which was decided and pronounced by …

Perspectives of lignite post-mining landscapes under …

Background The decision of the German federal government to cease lignite mining until 2038 or—if possible—already earlier until 2030, will cause manifold transition processes in the remaining lignite mining districts of Germany. The two largest districts are located in geographically opposite regions: The Rhineland in the western part and Lusatia in the …

Daniel Chatard's documentary photos on coal mining in …

Daniel is stunned when his friend tells him the story of threatened villages to be forcibly relocated for lignite mining in Germany. Curious, he decides to travel to the Rhineland and investigate further. There, he meets activists who live in tree houses as part of their campaign against the logging of Hambach Forest. ... In November 2021, the ...

The German lignite industry in 2021 Die deutsche …

germany's total volume of lignite amounted to 39.366Mtce in 2021. 39.349 Mtce of this amount came from domestic outputs and 0.025 Mtce from imports as well as changes in stocks. open-pit lignite mining, which amounted to 126.3 Mt in 2021, was concentrated in three regions. These are the rhenish District in the

The final showdown – ZAD Rhineland vs RWE, Germany

A small earth wall separates the tiny village of Lützerath from the enormous diggers operating in Garzweiler II, one of three opencast lignite coal mines operated by energy company RWE in the German Rhineland. Lignite is a type of heavy coal that is extracted and burnt locally. The mine is 235 metres away and coming closer every day.

Governance Policies for a "Just Transition" – A Case Study in …

This paper develops policy measures for a "just transition" based on a case study conducted in Germany's Rhineland lignite mining district. Semi-structured guided interviews served as the methodological approach. Expert interviews were conducted with...

Recultivation and renewal of a balanced landscape in the lignite mining …

The lignite mining area of the Rhineland provides an excellent example for planned recultivation of large open-works. In order to properly carry out recultivation measures, it is necessary to conduct basic research on the ecological factors which compose a balanced landscape. ... 2021, pp. 536.e1-536.e4. Indah Jamtani, …, Taslim …

Governance Policies for a "Just Transition" – A …

This paper develops policy measures for a "just transition" based on a case study conducted in Germany's Rhineland lignite mining district. ... Beer and Herberg, 2021), South Africa ...

A Short Profile of the Rhenish Lignite Area

Soil fauna of a reclaimed lignite open-cast mine of the Rhineland …

Reclaimed lignite open-cast mine areas in the Rhineland are covered by a mixture of loess and sand deposits containing organic material that originates from the upper quartary soil which has been ...

psychological distress in a Western German coal mining …

grief (Comtesse et al., 2021), is its explicit focus on place: solastalgia is a "place-based lived experience" (Galway et ... Lignite mining in the Rhineland started in the 19th century with less large-scale open-pit mines. After the Second World War in the 1950s, industrial growth in the area has led to an expansion of open-pit mines ...

Roman villa Landscapes of the Lignite Mining Areas in the …

INTROCUCTION. The Rheinische Bodendenkmalpflege (Rhineland Archaeological Heritage Service) has conducted a comprehensive investigation of numerous Roman rural settlements in three large opencast mining areas within the Jülich loess belt: the Hambach mine (HA), located 30 km west of Cologne, the Inden mine (WW) situated just to the …

Structural Change in the Rhineland Mining Area

Summary, July 14th 2021 Telefon: +49 2461 690 Structural Change in the Rhineland Mining Area presented by Mr. Ralph Sterck Managing Director of Zukunftsagentur Rheinisches Revier 1. ... consequence of the lignite mining phase-out, which was decided and pronounced by the German Federal Government in 2020. Therefore, it's binding …

A Coal-Mining 'Monster' Is Threatening To …

The Garzweiler is one of three massive open-pit coal mines in Germany's state of North Rhine-Westphalia, along the Dutch border, where lignite coal is mined — a dirty, brown coal responsible for ...

Visualizing Extraction

The town used to have 1,000 inhabitants; at the time of the photograph (November 2021) it had only 250. Slideshow A lump of lignite, or brown coal, a compound made from compressed peat. Germany mines more lignite than any other country in Europe. Slideshow A view on Niederaussem Power Station, the second-largest lignite power …

Press Release August 30, 2017 – Ende Gelände

In the last six days, it was the main base for a series of diverse protests against lignite mining in the Rhineland Coalfields. Thousands of people joined the „Ende Gelände" mass action of civil disobedience and blocked coal trains. ... 2021. It is essential that you report there promptly if you receive mail or similar from repressive ...

RESEARCH Open Access Perspectives of lignite post

The two largest districts are located in geographically opposite regions: The Rhineland in the western part and Lusatia in the east of Germany. As particularly these two mining …

Structural Change in the Rhenish Mining Area

North Rhine-Westphalia is taking a pioneering position in the phase-out of coal mining and the accompanying structural change. On December 31, 2020, the first …

Recultivation and renewal of a balanced landscape in the lignite mining …

The lignite mining area of the Rhineland provides an excellent example for planned recultivation of large open-works. In order to properly carry out recultivation measures, it is necessary to conduct basic research on the ecological factors which compose a balanced landscape. The problems involved in reconstructing a landscape, …

A history of lignite coal mining and reclamation practices in Lusatia

Coal mining in Germany is distributed over the three main areas of Rhineland, Central Germany and Lusatia, The region surrounding the towns of Cottbus and Senftenberg in Lusatia, eastern Germany, is one of the largest mining areas in Germany and has been strongly economically dependent on lignite mining and lignite …

Reclamation conditions of opencast mining in the …

(Rhineland) lignite-mining region covers an area of some 2500km² to the west of Cologne, Germany. Miocene (26 6 Ma) age lignites are covered by more recent clays, sands and gravels. In this ...

North Dakota's largest power plant: Coal Creek Station

About 8 million tons of lignite coal comes from the Falkirk Mine, owned and operated by The Falkirk Mining Company, a subsidiary of North American Coal Corporation, every year. ... Coal Creek was purchased by Rainbow Energy in 2021. Related. Send a Message to the Bureau of Land Management Read More » North …

Why Germany's coal mine struggle matters to all of us

Germany is the world's fifth largest historic emitter, and the lignite coal burned here is the dirtiest source of energy one can find. The mine in the Rhineland is the largest single source of carbon dioxide emissions in Europe. For decades, gigantic excavators have been digging out lignite coal there, up to 400 metres into the ground.

10 FACTS ON LIGNITE

deliveries between the mining areas Lignite production according to mining areas Share of domestic output in primary consumption in Germany between 2000 and 2020*) Utilisation of lignite 2020 Mining areas Use 1) Generation of electricity and heat Refining Others in million tons Rhineland 43.1 8.1 0.2 Lusatia 40.3 2.9 0.0

Soil fauna of a reclaimed lignite open-cast mine of the Rhineland …

DOI: 10.1016/S0925-8574(00)00147-6 Corpus ID: 93998735; Soil fauna of a reclaimed lignite open-cast mine of the Rhineland: improvement of soil quality by surface pattern @article{Topp2001SoilFO, title={Soil fauna of a reclaimed lignite open-cast mine of the Rhineland: improvement of soil quality by surface pattern}, author={Werner Topp and …

Rhenish lignite region ( Rhenish lignite region (DICKMANN …

The Rhenish (Rhineland) lignite-mining region covers an area of some 2 500 km2 to the west of Cologne, Germany. Miocene (26-6 Ma) age lignites are covered by more recent clays, sands and gravels.

Garzweiler Coal Mine

Note: The above section was automatically generated and is based on data from the GEM April 2024 Global Coal Mine Tracker dataset. Background The Garzweiler coal mine is one of Europe's largest open-pit mines, and is operated by RWE Power in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany.. The Garzweiler mine currently operates in a 3200-hectare area, …

Lignite mining and the Ende Gelände movement, Germany

The companies RWE, Vattenfall and EPH are owners or (in the case of EPH) potential buyers of lignite mines in the Rhineland and in Lusatia. The mining area of Garzweiler near Cologne has the biggest single lignite deposit in Europe. Here, RWE mines just under 100 million tons a year used exclusively for electricity in the local power plants ...

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Hambach opencast lignite mine in the Rhenish lignite mining area in Germany, Aerial with windmills in background ... postage stamp depicting View of Hambach Castle near the urban district Hambach of Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Rhineland-Palatinate. HAMBACH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 1: One of the world's largest bucket …

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