20 Jan 2017

German authorities allow completion of contested new coal plant

Uniper / Welt Online

German utility Uniper has been legally authorised to finish construction of a hard coal plant that a court stopped in 2009, the company said in press release. Authorities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia issued the permission after resolving questions concerning air pollution caused by the Datteln 4 plant near Dortmund. According to news website Welt Online, environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) criticised the decision in favour of the company that split off from utility E.ON last year as a “genuflection to the coal lobby” and is considering filing a new lawsuit against the one-billion-euro plant.

Read the press release in German here and the article in German here.

For background read the CLEW factsheet E.ON shareholders ratify energy giant's split.

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