{"id":11941,"date":"2019-03-19T21:04:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eko-unia.org.pl\/?p=11941"},"modified":"2019-03-19T21:13:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:13:45","slug":"local-organizations-in-saxony-and-brandenburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eko-unia.org.pl\/en\/local-organizations-in-saxony-and-brandenburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Local organizations in  Saxony and  Brandenburg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In August 2015, EKO-UNIA met the representatives of local organizations in Saxony and Brandenburg: Umweltgruppe Cottbus, Gemeinde Schenkendoebern and Klinger Runde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These organizations are involved in campaigns whose aims are to resist the activity and expansion of open-pit mines and power plants found in the region &#8211; Jaenschwalde (3000 MW), Schwarze Pumpe (1600 MW) and Boxberg (2500 MW).<br>The organizations also work with problems connected with monitoring the process of resettling people because of new open-pit mines, protecting the cultural heritage of the Sorbs, renewable sources of energy, and protecting the Spree river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The German government wants to close part of the coal power plants by 2020, and more specifically, part of the units operating within. Among others, the 2 units of the Jaenschwalde power plant will be closed. In August 2015, NGO activists and inhabitants from various countries (who suffered due to existing open-pit mines) met in front of the Jaenschwalde plant in order to protest the mining and burning of lignite. They created a human image of a skull and smoke rising from a power plant\u2019s chimney stacks which was visible from the sky. However, the closure of power plants in Germany is not a simple task, as the cost of such a process is very high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2014, Vattenfall announced that they are selling their open-pit mines in Germany. They don\u2019t want to invest in new ones either, as the cost of resettling people is high and the investment, therefore, unprofitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The representatives of local organizations believe that Germany\u2019s future lies in conserving energy and energy distribution based on small investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Position on the International Coalition project \u201cDevelopment Yes \u2013 Opencast Mines No\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>they are interested in collaborating; they think the coalition is a good idea;<\/li><li>they wish to remain in contact and to be informed of the project\u2019s progress;<\/li><li>there is a Climate Coalition in Germany \u2013 Climate Action;<\/li><li>they think that German funding bodies may be interested in the coalition;<\/li><li>an important event is the Climate Summit in Paris- after it, we will see what will happen in the international arena;<\/li><li>EU Water Framework Directive \u2013 it could be possible to address this directive together in the international arena.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2015, EKO-UNIA met the representatives of local organizations in Saxony and Brandenburg: Umweltgruppe Cottbus, Gemeinde Schenkendoebern and Klinger Runde. These organizations are involved in campaigns whose aims are to resist the activity and expansion of open-pit mines and power plants found in the region &#8211; Jaenschwalde (3000 MW), Schwarze Pumpe (1600 MW) and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eko-unia.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eko-unia.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eko-unia.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eko-unia.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eko-unia.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eko-unia.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11942,"href":"https:\/\/eko-unia.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions\/11942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eko-unia.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eko-unia.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eko-unia.org.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}