Amsterdam, Netherlands. XR Rebellion / Kappen met Kolen Blocade of Railway Tracks to prevent climate changing and poluting Black Coal to reach it’s European Destinations.
Lutzerath, Germany. Due to the exapntion of the Garzweiler Brown Coal Mine this Village in Nord Rhein-Westafila has to be demolished and disappear. Activitst pour into this agricultural community to halt the excavations inside the mine. Promisses of the Bundes Regiering (Federal Government) regarding reduction of CO2 / Carbon Emissions to not allow these mines to stay in operation much longer.
Geertruidenberg, Netherlands. Chimney and Lamp Post at Amer Centrale Power Plant exhausting carbon, CO2 and other greenhouse gasses, which are produced during electricity production inside the power plant.
Geertruidenberg, Netherlands. The Amer Centrale Power Plant is one of the fossil fuel using plants, producing electricity pand emitting carbon and Co2 into the athmosphere. Since environmental and climate change, using black coal and emitting greenhouse gasses is an issue in society.
Weisweiler, Nordrhein-Westfalen. The Altdorf / Weisweiler bron coal open pit mine is an excacvation fromw where polluting and CO2 emiitting brown coal is found, which is converted into electricity inside the nearby Weiweiler Kratwerk and Power Plant.
Weisweiler, Nordrhein-Westfalen. The Altdorf / Weisweiler bron coal open pit mine is an excacvation fromw where polluting and CO2 emiitting brown coal is found, which is converted into electricity inside the nearby Weiweiler Kratwerk and Power Plant.
Amsterdam, Netherlands. XR Rebellion / Kappen met Kolen Blocade of Railway Tracks to prevent climate changing and poluting Black Coal to reach it’s European Destinations.
Geertuidenberg, Netherlands. Amer Centrale power plant coal and fossil fuel pulverizer, preparing the fuels before injection into the fire bed.
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Rietlanden Coal and Ore Terminal re-distributes polluting fossil fuels and black coal throughout Europe by Train & Barge, contributing to Climate Change, Climate Crisis and CO2 Pollution.
Weisweiler, Germany. The brauncoal fuelled Kraftwerk Weisweiler Electrical Powerplant is still in active production and being fuelled by it’s own brown coal mine on approximately 20 kilometers distance.
Huge Excavator at Port of Rotterdam Coal Terminal Preparing a Train Load of Black Coal, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Geertuidenberg, Netherlands. Amer Centrale power plant steam boiler building, that drives the turbine and electricity generator.
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Hard, Black Coal Transporting Freight Train loading Bulk Fossil Fuels at OBA Coal and Ore Terminal, bound for Electricity and Heat Producing Power Plants throughout Europe, who keep polluting teh Climate With Corbon CO2 Greenhouse Gasses and more. XR rebellion and Kappen met Kolen Environmentalist Groups keep blovking trains and other means of transport.
Grevenbroich-Neurath, Germany. The two brauncoal fuelled Kraftwerk Neurath Electrical Powerplant.
Garzweiler, Germany. The Gartzweiler Brown Coal Open Pit Mine fuelles an Electrical Power Plant, but is considered to exhaust to much carbon and CO2. In times of Global Warming this method of electricity production is outdates, many people beleive. Aide this issue, Open Pit Mines have a huge impact on landscape and water management.
Lutzerath, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Many activists and protesters gathered inside a makeshift camp at the former village Lutzerath to tray to prevent the expansion of the Garzweiler open pit brown coal mine. Reduction of CO2 and Carbon emissions to limit temperature rise to 1,5 degrees Celcius and climate change cannot be done without closing the mine.
IJmuiden, Netherlands. Huge, heavy steel production plant and industry terrain, producing various kinds of steel inside an CO2 emitting factory. The steel plant is called Hoogovens and is owned by Tata Steel, an international corporation, who also suffers from decline in revenues and ever increasing demands on corporate responsibility, regarding labour and climate.
Amsterdam, Netherlands. Dutch XR Rebellion & Kappen met Kolen Climate Activists gathering at Ruigoord Artist Compound to prepare for Climate Action against a Black Coal Train loading and transporting Fossil Fuels.
Geertruidenberg, Netherlands. The Amer Centrale Power Plant is one of the fossil fuel using plants, producing electricity pand emitting carbon and Co2 into the athmosphere. Since environmental and climate change, using black coal and emitting greenhouse gasses is an issue in society.
Bulk Train being Loaded with Hard, Black Coal destined for Germany. Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rotterdam, Netherlands. Newly build fossil Fuel (Coal) electricity producing power plant on Port of Rotterdam’s 2ns Maasvlakte still emits large amounts of polluting CO2 greenhouse gasses.
Weisweiler, Germany. Huge Piles and Mountains of Rocky Soil, replaced to expoid a new Bown Coal Mine near Weiweiler Kraftwerk.
Port of Rotterdam Coal Terminal being a Huge Waste Land. Rotterdam, Netherlands
Weisweiler, Germany. The brauncoal fuelled Kraftwerk Weisweiler Electrical Powerplant is still in active production and being fuelled by it’s own brown coal mine on approximately 20 kilometers distance.
Update November 15, 2022. Rebellion Group: “Kappen met Kolen“, an offspring of XR Rebellion, blocked a Hard Coal distributing Freight Train at Westelijk Havengebied in Port of Amsterdam Harbour, since they sincerely believe continuous use of Fossil Fuels and Hard, Black Coal has to stop now. They aim at preventing the extinction of Life on Earth. Most of them were arrested by Police and send home after a Couple of Days.
Climate Change & Energy Crisis. Fossil Fuels. So needed to fuel our lives and our economy, to make our smartphones and computers work, to pay for salaries of entire communities of workers. And, since the invention of electricity, it’s produced by fossil fuels, like hard and brown coal. Meanwhile, 150 years or so later, scientists discovered, that burning fossil fuels pollutes the earth in extreme ways with Carbon Gasses like CO2, transforming the atmosphere, the climate, the weather. Entire communities are affected and climate change is just one angle. Entire villages are wiped from the face of the earth due to mining activities, forcing people to relocate multiple times to newly build homes and villages. Health Issues & Crime are in abundance. Investors relocate their funds towards environmental friendly corporations to safeguard corporate reputations, affecting old people’s pensions. Windmills, water and solar power is being build and nuclear energy is being out phased and then reconsidered. Climate activism by XR Rebellion and others, has seen light of day and will increate in intensity, until politicians and corporate forces change their attitude towards their earning models and hugely increased profits. Meanwhile disaster and conflict will increase and rumble throughout entire societies. On top a company like RWE sued the Dutch Government for multiple billions of Euro’s, due to preliminary shut downs off coal fuelled power plants years before their expected end of lifespan; a financial disaster for this Germany based electricity producer.
This is an ongoing, photo report of mining and (ab)use of black and brown coal and its effects on landscape, climate, communities and economy. Global Warming, Climate Crisis & Energy Transition is just one, major issue we have to deal with as a world wide community. If you consider funding this photo report, please don’t hesitate to send me an e-mail.
Considering to licence one or more of these images? Please contact me directly.
