Thousands activists occupy railway tracks to protest German coal mine expansion

Around 4,000 environmental activists took over the tracks that supply energy company RWE’s power plants with coal from the open-cast mine in Hambach on Saturday, with another 40 people occupying a digger.

Protesters have been occupying the remaining area of the Hambach Forest since 2012, in an effort to block RWE’s planned expansion of its open-pit coal mine.

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