#opencast

[tjerra14]

have a bit of Lake™ from today's bike ride

[hitachibaylouisher]

Casting photos.

From 08/05/23

Today is 10/05/23

Model: Hitachi Baylou

City: London

Instagram: Hitachi_Baylou

[studiolevez]

The Fight Against Open Cast Lithium Mining: A Call to Action . Mining companies have acquired huge swathes of Portugal's most scenic land in the beautiful Guarda countryside, home to the Serra da Estrela Natural Park. Luckily the park is protected land but it's in danger of becoming an oasis in a desert landscape as its surrounding mountain scenery is being ravaged by bulldozers in the search for lithium.

In recent years, the demand for lithium has surged due to its crucial role in the production of batteries for electric vehicles, smartphones, and renewable energy storage systems. While the benefits of lithium are undeniable, the environmental and social costs associated with open cast lithium mining cannot be overlooked.

Despite prosecutors currently investigating alleged corruption into lithium mining deals, the destruction of Portugal’s countryside continues. The latest proposal is to extend the Alvarrões mine near the village of Gonçalo from 6.5 hectares to 32 hectares. It will be an environmental disaster for the area. Trees will be razed to the ground, habitats for endangered species destroyed and water courses will be in danger of being polluted. The site is next to the Zezere river which supplies water to the half a million inhabitants of Lisbon.

The region has already seen enormous environmental damage with the destruction of over 27,000 hectares of forest in the 2022 wildfires. Lithium mining will further exacerbate this environmental damage.

The local residents have just 30 days to protest the expansion. A petition against the lithium mine expansion has been started at https://peticaopublica.com/pview.aspx?pi=Alvarroes#google_vignette

As global citizens, we must raise our voices against this destructive practice and advocate for more sustainable and ethical methods of lithium extraction. One of the most glaring issues with open cast lithium mining is the extensive environmental destruction it causes. Open cast, or open-pit, mining involves removing vast quantities of earth to access the lithium-rich ore beneath. This process results in significant deforestation, habitat loss, and soil erosion. Forests, which play a vital role in carbon sequestration and biodiversity preservation, are being decimated to make way for lithium mines. The loss of these ecosystems not only contributes to climate change but also endangers countless species of flora and fauna. The economic benefits promised by mining companies rarely materialize for local communities. Instead, the profits are often funneled to multinational corporations and distant investors, leaving local populations to deal with the environmental fallout. The jobs created by the mining industry are typically low-paying and short-term, offering little in the way of long-term economic stability. Once the lithium reserves are depleted, mining companies often abandon the area, leaving behind a scarred landscape and a community in economic disarray. Health issues are another significant concern. The pollution generated by open cast mining can lead to respiratory problems, skin diseases, and other health issues for local residents. The dust and particulate matter released during the mining process can travel long distances, affecting not only those in the immediate vicinity of the mine but also communities further afield.

Links: Petition against the expansion of the Alvarrões mine https://peticaopublica.com/pview.aspx?pi=Alvarroes#google_vignette Facebook group - Living Forest Action https://www.facebook.com/florestavivaguarda Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ7fDM5Drx8

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[radicalgraff]

"All Cops Are Eel Food"

Mural on a building in Luetzerath, Germany which has been seized by police.

The entire village of Luetzerath is slated for demolition to make way for the expansion of an opencast lignite mine.

Police from all over Germany have descended on the village as part of a massive operation to clear protesters who are defending Luetzerath from demolition.

[cetaceous]

Excavator, Coal Mine 2014 The Hambach Opencast Mine, Lower Rhine Basin, Germany aerial photography by Bernhard Lang image credit: Photography - Bernhard Lang

[grandmaster-anne]

27 June 1961 Daily Mail: It was the dustiest, dirtiest, smelliest and bluest of blue blood visits ever. Despite it, the Queen's smile faltered only once. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were in Westfield, heart of the Fife mining industry, for the opening of the Lurgi Gas Plant. But the outstanding impression of the day was the dust. Clouds of it swirling 80ft. choking eye-clogging dust which covered the royal cavalcade of Land Rovers as it streaked across the Westfield opencast mining site. The Queen said later: 'I don't think I have seen anything quite so dusty.'

[mrdiaperboyofficial]

Yesterday evening I drove to a brown coal opencast mine where brown coal is extracted in North Rhine-Westphalia. This is the largest brown coal opencast mine in Germany, but it will only be in operation for another 6 years. The brown coal extraction generates our electricity. And in a few years, this opencast mine is supposed to become a lake where a lot of water will be flooded into the opencast mine. I couldn’t resist taking a few pictures, in diapers of course. 🥰☺️ Have a nice Sunday everyone, my love. 😘❤️

[tjerra14]

not sure since when I've reached the age where reading people fighting in the comments on a local newspaper article about the slightly different colour of the local tap water has become an amusing evening activity but here we are

[waidwund]

letter from the past corner shop entrance – detail of a place that was already deserted at that time and is long since disappeared completely due to the garzweiler brown coal opencast mine. former village of immerath, germany // 12-2013 © 2013 waidwund-photo  

[bernhard-schipper]

‘Aktivist’ Digital Collage, 375 x 375 mm, 2023 Fine Art Pigment Print under Acrylic Glass, Black Aluminium Art Box

‘Activist’ is probably the most totalitarian-seeming image in the series so far. The composition consists only of visual set pieces of the socialist hero glorification in the mining industry and the German miners' song 'Vor dem Anfahren' from the Mansfelder Land from 1797. I tried to reduce the aggressive expression - not particularly successfully. Until I realized that the elements such as: danger of being buried, community, omnipresent death, uniforms, and (the built-up) ideal of serving the people are inherent in the theme and I have to accept this in order to complete the picture.

Mining is war against Earth - our home planet.

I have to admit that I have had little contact with the mining culture so far. But since the beginning of the 1990s at the latest, it has been clear that mining in Germany is a phased-out model - an industry with no future due to dwindling resources, high environmental pollution and the health consequences for employees. But politicians in eastern Germany in particular cling to the myth that fossil resources never run out - also because they have failed to develop sustainable alternatives and perspectives. Mining has caused irreparable damage to the landscape and has irrevocably destroyed autochthonous culture, especially in the opencast mining areas of East Germany. Mining companies criminally mislead the public when it comes to water extraction from ecosystems.

Ultimately, the glorification of fossil fuel industries can no longer be justified. This is not to deny the achievements, hardships and sacrifices made by miners and their families for centuries. The picture is dedicated to them.

[climatecalling]

They might not look like archetypal environmental campaigners, but together they’ve spent the past two decades in the trenches of a colossal climate battle – one that unfolded right on their doorstep. Just a few hundred metres away from where we’re sitting is the Ffos-y-Fran opencast coalmine: the UK’s largest, owned by Merthyr (South Wales) Ltd. Even before it opened, they opposed it. It’s a fight they believe, on all accounts, should long be over. Not only because we know how environmentally damaging burning coal is, amid an ever-escalating climate crisis. It’s also that in September last year, permission to mine there expired. The Austins, expert lawyers and environmental groups all allege it has continued to operate illegally. Coal Authority records reveal that more than 284,000 tonnes of coal have been extracted since September. ... For 15 years, they refused to give in. There was an attempted years-long legal action; Alyson put herself on the line, risking the house with costs, to lead a test case that made its way to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. “I was crapping myself,” she says, “but in the end, that failed. ... “Nobody seemed to care,” Chris says, bluntly. In fact, in April this year, Merthyr Council refused an application by the company to extend operations until 2024, and in May issued a notice for the company to halt mining. It took effect in late June. Not that it stopped anything.

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[radicalgraff]

Mud Wizard 🧙‍♂️ mural in Germany. The Wizard was a defender of the recently evicted village of Luetzerath, which is slated to be totally demolished to make way for the expansion of an opencast lignite mine.

Over the last couple years activists occupied the largely abandoned town to prevent its demolition.

In mid January 2023 police from all over Germany converged on the village as part of a major operation to attack the fortified protest encampments.

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Climate activist Greta Thunberg and an estimated 6,000 people marched through mud and rain on Saturday to protest against the expansion of an opencast lignite mine near Luetzerath in Germany

January 13 2023