Nine environmental activists were injured and 34 detained in an operation to evict protesters holed up in forest treehouses in a bid to block the expansion of an open-pit coal mine, police said yesterday. Police officers have mobilised against fierce resistance since the middle of last week to clear the demonstrators from Hambach Forest near the border with Belgium and the Netherlands. Up to 4,000 police have been on the scene to remove 60 treehouses, some as high as 25 metres off the ground, housing dozens of protesters. The activists, who are protesting the expansion of energy giant RWE’s open-pit lignite mine, one of Europe’s largest, had called for a mass mobilisation by supporters to prevent the forest from being cleared.
— source theborneopost.com | Sept 17, 2018
Germany is said to be pro-renewable, but why this action.