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RWE AG is a German multinational energy company headquartered in Essen. It generates and trades electricity in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the United States.
Share of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk AG, issued 16 February 1900
RWE CEO Jürgen Großmann meeting with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev in 2011
RWE-owned Roscoe Wind Farm in Texas, US
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Hambach surface mine
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The Tagebau Hambach is a large open-pit coal mine in Niederzier and Elsdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is operated by RWE and used for mining lignite.
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…In 2018, RWE was the largest producer of carbon dioxide emissions in Europe. Since 2012, environmentalists have protested against RWE because of the Hambach surface mine situated in the area of Hambach Forest. In November 2017, in the lawsuit filed by Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), the German arm…
Aerial view of Hambach surface mine
Banner project by JunepA in Tagebau Hambach, 2017
Panoramic view from Sophienhöhe
Hambach open-pit lignite mine in the neighbourhood of the Hambach Forest, showing a bucket-wheel excavator during the demonstrations on 6 October 2018