German anti coal activist goes to jail

A ger­man activist went to jail today for an action against the con­struc­tion of a coal fired pow­er plant. Two years ago, she took part on a block­ade at the con­struc­tion site of the Vat­ten­fall-coal plant in Ham­burg-Moor­burg. She refused to pay her penal­ty. On 13th August, she start­ed her penal­ty in the Jus­tizvol­lzugsanstalt Brühl near Karl­sruhe.

A ger­man activist went to jail today for an action against the con­struc­tion of a coal fired pow­er plant. Two years ago, she took part on a block­ade at the con­struc­tion site of the Vat­ten­fall-coal plant in Ham­burg-Moor­burg. She refused to pay her penal­ty. On 13th August, she start­ed her penal­ty in the Jus­tizvol­lzugsanstalt Brühl near Karl­sruhe.

The action was part of the first ger­man cli­mate camp 2008 in Ham­burg. The local gov­ern­ment in Ham­burg is a coali­tion between the green and the con­ser­v­a­tive par­ty. Before the elec­tion in 2008, the green par­ty promised to stop the con­struc­tion of the plant if they join the gov­er­ment. After their elec­tion into the gov­ern­ment, they accept­ed the coal plant.

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