Deutschland would be better off with nuclear power, but the Greens would have none of that.

German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

One wind turbine has already been dismantled, with a further seven scheduled for removal to excavate an additional 15m to 20m tonnes of so-called ‘brown’ coal, the most polluting energy source.

The demolitions are part of a deal brokered last year between Robert Habeck, the Green party’s minister for economy and climate action and Mona Neubaur, who is the economy minister for North Rhine Westphalia, to allow the expansion of the mine.

In return, RWE had to agree to phase out coal in 2030, eight years before the previous deadline. “It’s a good day for climate protection,” Habeck said at the time.

But this week’s move has sparked sharp criticism from activists.

Of course environmentalists will criticize the move. They go right back to their nice, comfortable fossil-fuel powered homes with air conditioning or heating to boot. As opposed to nuclear power plants that give out little to no emissions and nearly unlimited amounts of energy, now Germany will extract and even burn the dirtiest form of coal so Germans can have power.

Germany is being de-industrialized resulting from the so-called green energy sources the country uses. This, in turn, causes a diminishing quality of life and it is no surprise that Germans who can afford to are leaving for greener pastures.

PHOTO CREDIT: Coal-fired power plant at the river Elbe, Wedel, Hamburg – By Hannes Grobe (talk) – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5572262