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Activists of the environmental protection organization Greenpeace protested on Tuesday morning in front of the North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery in Düsseldorf against the state government's coal policy.
Four of them climbed onto a canopy and unrolled a poster.
They sprayed symbols on the ground around the building.
The reason was the lignite resolution expected for Tuesday by the NRW state government, reported Greenpeace.
"If Laschet's government decides, as expected, to expand the lignite opencast mines in North Rhine-Westphalia, villages would be destroyed and climate targets endangered," said the organization.
The planned expansion of the Garzweiler II opencast mine, among other things, would release up to 900 million tons of CO2 in North Rhine-Westphalia.
"This key decision pours fuel on the fire of the climate crisis," said Bastian Neuwirth from Greenpeace.
Economics Minister Andreas Pinkwart (FDP) wants to present the key points after the cabinet meeting on Tuesday afternoon (3:30 p.m.).
The new key decision had become necessary after the decision to phase out coal.
In Germany, coal-fired power generation should end by 2038 at the latest.
Accordingly, lignite extraction can also be reduced.
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The draft for the lead decision presented last year provides that five localities at the Garzweiler opencast mine are to be relocated.