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14th November 2014

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

  

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Alarmed that nuclear curtailment has prompted German power utilities to burn its most coal in six years, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is now taking steps to restrict coal-fired power generation, which currently provides 45% of Germany’s electricity. This large excavator is seen at the Welzow-Sued opencast mine, near the eastern German town of Spremberg, where Vattenfall Europe Mining, one of Europe's largest generators of electricity, mines about 20-million tons of brown coal a year.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Magazine Managing Editor

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