RWE would be wise to abandon logging plans for coal mine expansion - opinion
Forest protection has played an important role in the history of Germany鈥檚 Energiewende, or energy transition, and the current developments at the Hambach Forest, which is under threat by the expansion of a lignite mine, could end up as another example in which environmental activists prevail over the commercial interests of a corporation, Michael Bauchm眉ller writes in a commentary in the S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Protecting trees from profit-oriented investors has worked for anti-nuclear activists 鈥渘ot only because of the strength of their arguments but also because they had the power of images on their side鈥�, Bauchm眉ller says. Energy company RWE insists that it is legally entitled to cut down the embattled forest in order to make room for its coal mine, while at the same time the country鈥檚 coal commission is debating the end of coal-fired power production in Germany. 鈥淚f the RWE board takes a close look at what happened in the past, they will abandon their logging plans. They can only lose,鈥� according to Bauchm眉ller.
Read the commentary in German .
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