As oil and gas players increasingly face a backlash from environmental activists, police in Germany had to intervene to remove protesters who stormed an open-cast coal mine.
Hundreds of protesters descended on the Tagebau Garzweiler mine in North-Rhine Westfalia state in the last week in protest over a perceived slowness in action to combat climate change.
The protesters, many of them donning white clothing, broke police lines to occupy the lignite mine near Dusseldorf, which is operated by German utility giant RWE.
