German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the Western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

  • nik282000@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Most people don’t have a ‘green’ option for which they can vote.

    We won’t touch the Greenbelt.

    -Doug Ford, 2018

    Ford says he’s confident nothing criminal took place in Greenbelt land swap amid RCMP probe.

    -CBC news, 2023

    Not that he was a green leaning politician to begin with but this is just another example of blatant lies used by politicians to get elected and totally fuckover their country.