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Kenya's environment court blocked Wednesday the construction of a coal power station in the Lamu archipelago, a $2 billion project that faced years of resistance from conservationists and local communities. SOUNDBITE
Miami, Jun 16 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Cristóbal Herrera) Florida's largest electricity company demolished its last coal-based plant in the state on Wednesday to make way for an energy complex cleaner, as part of the goal to install 30 million solar panels by 2030.FOOTAGE OF THE DEMOLITION OF THE PLANT AND SOUNDBITES OF BILL ORLOVE, SPOKESMAN FOR FPL.
A former coal-fired power station in Lünen, Germany, is partially destroyed in three controlled explosions. The 110-metre high cooling tower, the 250-metre chimney and the 70-metre boiler house collapse under the blasts, requiring 420 kilograms of explosives in 2100 bores. The Lünen coal-fired power station was commissioned in 1938 and its dismantling began in June 2020. Germany has decided to abandon coal by 2038, although it still accounts for a quarter of its energy mix. IMAGES
Gaza, Jan 26 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Mohammed Saber) The Al-Hattab coal manufacturing plant is the largest producer in the Gaza Strip.
Berlin, Aug 8 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Clemens Bilan).- A group of environmental activists occupied the Berlin Moabit thermal power plant on Saturday to protest against coal power in Germany.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST ON SATURDAY.
Berlin, Jul 3 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Omer Messinger) The lower house of the German Parliament (Bundestag) passed on Friday the law to regulate the progressive abandonment of the use of coal as a source of energy until its disappearance in 2038, as well as a 40,000 million euros aid for the regions and companies affected in the transition period.FOOTAGE OF THE BUNDESTAG.
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