Published: 14 Nov 12 11:43 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20121114-46167.html
Police worked through the night into Wednesday to evict a camp of environmental activists occupying a forest in western Germany due to be cut down to make way for brown coal excavation.
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Your comments about this article:
Whut?
You'd be cutting down the same amount of trees in the summer, so what are you conserving?
I was not allowed to tear down a building during winter because it could be that animals use it over the cold months. Never mind that there were no animals inside or nests or whatever, just that they could...