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Berlin 1st April 2004 Resorts: Current News/Politics Showing Vattenfall the red card ROBIN WOOD campaigns against the destruction of Lacoma's lakes by brown coal mining in the Lausitz region. To show their disapproval of the plans of the energy supplier Vattenfall to ruin an ecologically valuable lake region in the Lausitz in order to mine brown coal in Cottbus-Nord, ROBIN WOOD activists and environmentalists from Lacoma protested in front of Vattenfall's head office in Berlin. ROBIN WOOD activists climbed up the Vattenfall building, from where they rolled out a banner reading: "So much nature for so little coal? - Protect Lacoma! Alternative energy now!" To increase the pressure on Vattenfall to refrain from pursuing this project, ROBIN WOOD encourages the customers of the combine's brands Bewag and HEW to switch to an ecological energy provider. "Us as energy buyers can demonstrate to Vattenfall that we are not prepared to pay the price if this involves the destruction of unique ecological landscapes and historic ecosystems and has a severe impact on the climate", says Ute Bertrand from ROBIN WOOD. Brown coal is rated as the climate killer number one amongst the energy sources. While supplying approximately ten per cent of Germany's primary energy demands, it produces 20 per cent of the country's carbon dioxide emissions. Despite being extremely harmful to the climate, the proportion of brown coal being converted into energy still makes up 27 per cent of the energy mix in Germany. The weak compromise on emission trading does not entail a change toward alternative energy sources either. And yet, this compromise is still not enough for Vattenfall. The combine's objective is to have all its investments to modernise its old brown coal power stations considered from 1990 - rather than from 1996 as currently provided - when the emission certificates are issued. The region in question in the Lausitz, which is planned to be flattened by bulldozers, is an ecological treasure and a habitat of numerous protected species such as the red-bellied toad and the hermit beetle. The area is now registered as a European FFH protection zone. According to EU law, it is therefore subject to a so-called "impairment prohibition", which is aimed at species protection. Nevertheless, Vattenfall is creating facts with its preparatory works for the open-cast mine. Especially the lowering of ground water has already affected the area's condition. Moreover, planning permission hearings on the removal of these lakes are currently being held, the results of which will be interesting. Environmentalists therefore demand the complete stop of all mining preparations. With today's campaign ROBIN WOOD is supporting the fierce opposition of the local population in this region. Two of them, Franziska Liesigk and Robert Künne, have started a hunger strike and have maintained a protest picket at Vattenfall's head office for days. They announced today that they have ended their hunger strike after 41 days. The protests, however, will continue. Contact: Ute Bertrand, press-spokesperson, +49 40 380 892 22, presse@robinwood.de For more Information: http://www.lacoma.info Fotos: ROBIN WOOD Lesen Sie zu diesem Thema auch unsere Pressemitteilungen: 17.10.2005 Baumbesetzern in Lacoma droht die Räumung Vattenfall hat heute Bäume direkt am Hammergraben gefällt 12.10.2005 Protestaktion in Stockholm gegen den Braunkohletagebau von Vattenfall Internationale Unterstützung für Baumbesetzer von ROBIN WOOD in Lacoma 12.10.2005 Vattenfall tänker skövla tyskt naturskyddsområde för brunkolsbrytning Internationell protestaktion av miljövänner i Stockholm och Lacoma 7.10.2005 Trädkramare mot brunkolsbrytning ROBIN WOOD-aktivister riktar in sig på träd i hemtrakterna som Vattenfall vill fälla för brunkolsdagbrytningen. 6.10.2005 Baumbesetzer gegen Braunkohlebagger ROBIN WOOD-AktivistInnen richten sich auf Bäumen häuslich ein, die Vattenfall für den Braunkohletagebau in der Lausitz fällen will 20.4.2005 Miljövänner mot Vattenfall Protester framför Sveriges Ambassad mot brunkolsdagbrott och förstörelse av Lacomas sjölandskap 20.4.2005 Umweltschützer contra Vattenfall Proteste vor der schwedischen Botschaft gegen Braunkohletagebaue und die Zerstörung der Lacomaer Teichlandschaft 17.6.2004 Dividende zu Lasten des Klimas ROBIN WOOD fordert bei Vattenfall-Hauptversammlung Ausstieg aus der Braunkohleverstromung 20.4.2004 Proteste bei Einweihung der neuen Vattenfall-Zentrale in Cottbus Umweltschützer fordern Erhalt der Lacomaer Teichlandschaft / Strafanzeige der Grünen Liga gegen Vattenfall-Konzern 1.4.2004 Showing Vattenfall the red card ROBIN WOOD campaigns against the destruction of Lacoma's lakes by brown coal mining in the Lausitz region. 1.4.2004 Vattenfall die rote Karte zeigen ROBIN WOOD-Aktion gegen die Zerstörung der Lacomaer Teiche durch den Braunkohletagebau in der Lausitz 19.12.2003 Rettet Lacoma! 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