1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites
Politics

Excavated away

06:21

This browser does not support the video element.

June 20, 2013

Despite Germany's energy turnaround, environmentally damaging lignite, or brown coal, is still being strip-mined in the country, including in the state of Brandenburg. Politicians have just approved additional projects, despite citizens' bitter protests. But miners, too, are taking to the streets because they fear for their jobs. We visit southern Brandenburg to gauge the situation.

Skip next section DW's Top Story

DW's Top Story

Skip next section More stories from DW