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Cologne (dpa / lnw) - The environmental association BUND has again taken to court against the Hambach lignite mine.
The NRW regional association had filed a lawsuit with the Cologne Administrative Court against the approval of the new main operating plan, the BUND announced on Friday.
The operating plan valid for the years 2021 to 2024 does not change the clearing boundary at the Hambacher Forest, but it makes the desired ecological networking of the remaining forests at the open-cast mine much more difficult.
"Hambi threatens to become island", said the NRW manager of the BUND, Dirk Jansen.
The Hambach Forest had become a symbol of the dispute over the use of lignite in Germany.
The coal exit law stipulates that the forest with its old trees will be preserved.
As the mining authority, the Arnsberg district government approved the main operating plan at the end of last year.
He lays the foundation stone for the early termination of coal mining in the Hambach opencast mine.
The opencast mine operator RWE intends to stop production in Hambach around the end of 2029.
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