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RWE faces backlash as man dies during lignite protest

Forest protest storm grows around group due to become one of Europe's biggest renewables operators

Policemen carry away an environmental activist at the Hambacher Forst forest that is to be deforested for enlargement of a lignite open-pit mine near Kerpen, western Germany.
Policemen carry away an environmental activist at the Hambacher Forst forest that is to be deforested for enlargement of a lignite open-pit mine near Kerpen, western Germany.
  • Bernd Radowitz in Berlin
Policy
Published 20 September 2018, 10:35Updated 20 September 2018, 12:07