The campaign against Vattenfall’s lignite power plant in southern Germany can completely stop production.
– The police have begun to evict the demonstrators in three stages, said Peter Bergstedt at Vattenfall.
the protests against Vattenfall’s lignite power plant in southern Germany has been going on since Friday afternoon.
Activists have entered the mine where brown coal is mined, chained themselves at machines and blocked tågrälsen where coal is transported from the mine Welzow Süd and Schwarze pumpe power plant.
About 1 000 people protesting against Vattenfall plans to sell the mine instead of putting it down.
Swedes arrested
Since no carbon longer be transported to the power plant and depots begins its power plant can be shut down.
– We stopped the production of electricity on Saturday afternoon to continue supplying district heating to households also says Vattenfall spokesman Peter Bergstedt.
Three steps
on Saturday arrested 120 activists. On the Swedish activists’ website is information that Swedes were among them but was released.
At 15 o’clock on Sunday started German police evict activists.
– It will take place in three stages. First, they removed that are blocking the stockpile, then the occupying train track so that we can ship coal from the stockpile to the plant. Ultimately, those who chained themselves at the mine moved.
Peter Bergstedt has no data on violence in place. Aftonbladet have searched the Swedish activists.
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