Germany leads the world in burning the fuel that does the greatest harm to the worlds climate. Each year the country mines 180 million tonnes of lignite for burning in power plants. This brochure aims to highlight the consequences of lignite mining, taking as an example the region of Lusatia where the Swedish company VATTENFALL has been operating mines and power plants since 2001. (published in August 2014)

• "Lignite country" (english) as pdf (12 p., 1,6 MB)
• "I Brunkolets Land" (swedish) as pdf (12 p., 1,6 MB)