New CEO calls for swift decision over future of lignite mining in Lusatia
Die Welt
Helmar Rendez, chairman of Germany’s newest lignite company LEAG, has pushed for a swift decision over the possible expansion of open pit mining in the Eastern German region of Lusatia, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. “This is no decision that we can postpone much longer,” Rendez told the newspaper. LEAG will decide in the coming months whether the lignite mines formerly run by Vattenfall are going to be expanded under the aegis of their new owner EHP, according to Wetzel.
For more information on Vattenfall’s decision to give up lignite mining in Lusatia see the CLEW-Factsheet Vattenfall's German brown coal: what's being sold and who wants to buy.
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