A private piece of forest near Rohne is to make way for the Nochten open-cast lignite mine, according to the environmental network Grüne Liga. The expropriation and clearing will not be stopped by the Federal Constitutional Court with a temporary injunction, the environmental network announced. The application for such an injunction was rejected. The court order is available to the German Press Agency.
According to the Green League, the energy company Leag is said to have already announced the clearances from January 2. "With today's decision, the coal company can create facts on January 2. The affected landowners will nevertheless file a constitutional complaint," explained René Schuster from the Green League.
The legal dispute concerns a private forest plot near Rohne, a district of Schleife (Görlitz district). It has been leased to an environmental group since 2019, which claims to organize cultural and educational activities there. The energy company Leag is planning to excavate the area for the expansion of the Nochten open-cast mine.
