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Excavated Away - Lignite mining eats into Brandenburg's villages | People & Politics

1,707 views · Published 28 December 2013 · 6:30 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: DW News · 2013 · News & Politics

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Despite Germany's energy turnaround, environmentally-damaging lignite, or brown coal, is still being strip mined here, including in the state of Brandenburg. Politicians have just approved additional projects, despite citizens' bitter protests. But miners, too, are taking to the streets, because they fear for their jobs. We visit southern Brandenburg to gauge the situation.
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