For the first time in more than 200 years a German ‘cathedral’ has been deliberately torn down. Demolition teams moved in on the former place of worship this morning to clear the land ready for the expansion of a giant open-cast coal mine. The 130 year old building was standing on top of deposits of one of Europe’s dirtiest fuels: brown coal, or ‘lignite’. Last minute legal appeals and direct action from Greenpeace activists failed to prevent the destruction from … Continue reading German ‘cathedral’ bulldozed to make way for expanding coal mine