Governance Policies for a "Just Transition" – A Case Study in …
This paper develops policy measures for a "just transition" based on a case study conducted in Germany's Rhineland lignite mining district. Semi-structured guided interviews served as the ...
Perspectives of lignite post-mining landscapes under …
Germany, mining was stopped in several open cast mines until the turn of the millennium. Today, active lignite production in Germany is mainly concentrated on the two districts in the Rhineland and Lusatia as well as on some remaining mines in Central Germany (Table 1). e western lignite mining district in the Rhineland
Lignite Mining in the Rhineland
With mining extraction of 101.6 million metric tonnes in 2012 alone, the Rhineland constitutes Germany's most important lignite area. More than half the total lignite production in all four mining regions is concentrated here. The destructive exploitation of domestic natural resources explains the unrelenting resistance by BUND against ...
Energy and Ecosystems // Sustainable Lignite Mining and …
Lignite mining is environmentally compatible as e.g. high quality recultivation of agricultural and forestal landscapes and fine-grained water-management measures are …
Economic Resilience of German Lignite Regions in Transition …
This paper recalls the development of the German lignite regions Rhineland and Lusatia since 1945 to allow for a better understanding of their situation in 2019. We analyze their economic resilience, defined as adaptive capacity, using Holling's adaptive cycle model. We find that the Rhineland is currently in the conservation phase, while Lusatia experiences a …
Acid mine groundwater in lignite overburden dumps and …
The Rhineland lignite mining area with a production of 102.8 million tons of lignite (1996) is predominant compared with the Lusatian mining area (63.6 million tons brown coal in 1996) and the lignite mining area in Central Germany (16.8 million tons brown coal in 1996; for location, see Fig. 1). At present four open pit mines are active in the ...
6000 people against lignite mining – Ende Gelände
In the last week, it was the main base for a series of powerful and diverse protests against lignite mining in the Rhineland Coalfields. On Friday and Saturday, thousands of „Ende Gelände" activists blocked the train tracks which supply Germany' s dirtiest coal-fired power plant Neurath with coal. On Friday the tracks were occupied for ...
RWE Power Lignite Mines, Rhineland Lignite, Germany
The Rhenish (Rhineland) lignite-mining region covers a 2,500km² area to the west of Cologne. RWE Power AG, which was created during 2003 by the merger of RWE Rheinbraun with other RWE interests, operates four large opencast mines in the district – Hambach, Garzweiler, Inden and Bergheim – which between them produced 96.2Mt of lignite in 2006.
Lignite Mining In Rhineland 2012
Concern over earlier coal exit grows in Germany's biggest mining … The German government's stated goal of moving the country's coal exit deadline forward from 2038 to 2030 has sparked concern in the Rhenish lignite mining region in western Germany, an area stretching between Cologne and Aachen, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports.The Rhineland is the largest brown …
RWE Power Lignite-Fired Plant, Neurath, Grevenbroich
Babcock- Europe (BHE) the consortium leader, supplied both the steam generators of the power plant. The order for the consortium was worth around €660m, with roughly half falling to BHE and associated companies. The units are the world's largest steam generators with the highest steam mass flow, s…See more on power-technology
RWE Power Lignite Mines, Rhineland Lignite, Germany
Current plans are for three huge mines, Hambach, Garzweiler and Inden, giving a total capacity of 120Mt/y of lignite if required. Central to the overburden stripping and lignite …
Lignite mining in the rhineland
With mining extraction of 90,45 million metric tonnes in 2016 alone, the Rhineland constitutes Germany's most important lignite area. More than half the total lignite pro-duction in all four …
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Fig. 2. Groundwater lowering operations in the Rhineland lignite basin. // Bild 2. Grundwasserabsenkung im Rheinischen Braunkohlenrevier. Source/Quelle: RWE Power AG
Acid mine groundwater in lignite overburden dumps and its …
In order to mine lignite in open pits the aquifers have to be dewatered and the overburden must be excavated and dumped. The overburden of the Rhineland mining area in Germany mostly contains ...
European Lignite-Mining Regions in Transition
hard coal mining – the backbone of Europe's energy economy in the post-war era which has been in a stably managed decline since the 1970s – lignite mining has retained a high level of productivity to the present day. Consequently, Germany's lignite regions in the Rhineland,
Anthropogenic relief changes in a long‐lasting lignite mining …
Here, the Ville (Rhenish lignite district, Germany) is used to quantify surface mining induced relief changes in one of the oldest and currently largest lignite districts in Europe.
Rhenish lignite region ( Rhenish lignite region (DICKMANN …
The Rhenish (Rhineland) lignite-mining region covers an area of some 2 500 km2 to the west of Cologne, Germany. Miocene (26-6 Ma) age lignites are covered by more recent clays, sands and gravels.
Indication of rapid soil food web recovery by nematode …
Recultivation is the re-establishment of a functioning soil-plant-microbial system after massive soil disturbance or soil removal (Schinner and Sonnleitner, 2013).In the open-cast lignite mining district in the triangle between the cities Aachen, Cologne and Düsseldorf, Germany, bucket-wheel excavators are removing the overburden layer by layer, including …
Lignite Mining in the Rhineland
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Governance Policies for a "Just Transition" – A Case Study in …
The Rhineland lignite mining district has good logistical links to a large number of research institutions. The renowned RWTH Aachen University, as well as one of the largest research institutions in Europe, the Forschungszentrum Jülich, are both located in …
Reclamation conditions of opencast mining in the …
(Rhineland) lignite-mining region covers an area of some 2 500 km² to the west of Cologne, Germany. Miocene (26–6 Ma) age lignites are covered by more recent clays, sands and gravels. In this district the RWE Power AG operates four large opencast mines producing 96.2 Mt/a of lignite (2006). Large villages,
Germany's three lignite mining regions | Clean …
This factsheet gives an overview of Germany's three active lignite mining regions, their history, and economic dependence on coal. [Update: Germany no longer world's largest lignite producer] Germany used to be the largest lignite …
Lignite in the Czech Republic and Germany: controversies and prospects
In 2018, ten mines in the three German brown coal fields (Lusatian, Central Germany and Rhineland: see Map) ... According to preliminary data, whereas in 2010 it was still 23.3% (and even rose to 25.8% in 2012), it fell to 16.2% for 2020, although this was also due to the pandemic crisis. ... lignite mining has been the subject of criticism ...
Lignite Mining In Rhineland 2012
The lignite mining area of the Rhineland provides an excellent example for planned recultivation of large open-works. In order to properly carry out recultivation measures, it is necessary to …
Lignite
TODAY, LIGNITE IS EXCLUSIVELY SURFACE MINED (OPEN-PIT MINING) IN POLAND ... these resources would satisfy demand in the next 500 years. The largest resources are held by Germany (the Rhineland Lignite Basin, Helmstedt Basin, Lusatian Basin, Middle German Basin), Russia (the Kansk-Achinsk Basin, Moscow Coal Basin) and by the Czech …
Soil fauna of a reclaimed lignite open-cast mine of the Rhineland …
Reclaimed lignite open-cast mine areas in the Rhineland are covered by a mixture of loess and sand deposits containing organic material that originates from the upper quartary soil which has been ...
Economic Resilience of German Lignite Regions in Transition …
This paper recalls the development of the German lignite regions Rhineland and Lusatia since 1945 to allow for a better understanding of their situation in 2019.
Lignite Mining in the Rhineland
2 Lignite Mining in the Rhineland - „Garzweiler II" D. Jansen. Garzweiler opencast mine. Lignite Mining in the Rhineland. ignite – boon or bane? The geological history of lignite the Rhineland basin. The lignite is deposited in three over- began millions of years ago, while the relatively short lying beds with a total average thickness of ...
Surface mining and land reclamation in Germany
Mining and land restoration methods as well as planning and regulatory procedures employed in West Germany to ameliorate environmental impacts from large-scale surface mining are described. The Rhineland coalfield in North Rhine Westphalia contains some 55 billion tons of brown-coal (or lignite), making the region one of Europe's most important ...
Hard coal and lignite
The coalfield in the Rhineland is the largest lignite coalfield in Europe and Germany is Europe's largest producer of lignite. ... the number of persons directly employed in lignite mining fell from 130,000 in 1990 to 6,670 in 2021, then slightly increased to 6,899 in 2022 2 ...
Energy and Ecosystems // Sustainable Lignite Mining and Utilisation …
02 Mar 2012 Energy and Ecosystems // Sustainable Lignite Mining and Utilisation in the Rhineland by RWE Power, Germany Share this article. X. ... Lignite mining is environmentally compatible as e.g. high quality recultivation of agricultural and forestal landscapes and fine-grained water-management measures are reliable, effective and setting ...