Translation of "Braunkohletagebau" in English

Its water balance was and is affected by the brown coal open-cast pits south of Mönchengladbach.

The lignite coal mining around Garzweiler takes place in Europe’s largest contiguous deposits.

Decades of brown-coal mining in Lusatia have left behind giant slag heaps and mine lakes.

The mining of brown coal continues, and the spread of suburbia is taking up more and more space.

Brown coal open pit mining has a long tradition in Rhineland.

What was once a brown coal mine has been transformed into a fully new landscape.

He again worked in brown coal mining near Altenburg until his retirement in 1977.

Like no other energy region in Germany, the area has been shaped by lignite opencast mining.

Admittedly, their village fell victim to the brown coal surface mining.

It was formed after the flooding of a former open-pit mining which started in 1958.

The open pit mines Tamnava West Field, Veliki Crljeni, as well parts of the Kolubara coal basin were flooded.

Not far from Duchcov Duxit is found since the 1980s in a lignite workhouse at Bílina.

In Germany Europe's biggest open-pit lignite mine displaces entire villages and forces thousands of people to abandon their homes.

What view does the Commission take of the environmental damage caused by opencast lignite mining and lignite-burning power stations in the Czech Republic and central Germany, and of the progress with plans to decommission lignite plants and return affected land to nature?

Due to brown coal mining, two strips of road in the north (between Schkeuditz and Taucha) and the south (between Zwenkau and Markkleeberg) had to be demolished, splitting up the road into two segments.

Part of the original landscape was destroyed by the brown coal open-cast mine around the Boxberg Power Station, however the pits left behind have been flooded and now form a new part of the countryside.

Despite the town having more than 1,000 years of history and tradition, in 2006 the eastern part of the borough was cleared to make way for the Garzweiler II brown coal pit operated by RWE Power.

The Schöningen Spears are eight wooden throwing spears from the Palaeolithic Age, that were found under the management of Dr. Hartmut Thieme from the Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural Heritage (NLD) between 1994 and 1998 in the open-cast lignite mine, Schöningen, county Helmstedt, Germany, together with approximately 16,000 animal bones.

During the next two years, he was head of the Hambach-Gruppe in Aachen, which was a citizen initiative against the Hambach surface mine.

After the last of the 530 million tons of brown coal was mined from the Zukunft-West mine in 1987, regeneration began.

Germany has planned to spend 15 bn DM over five years for the decontamination of sites in the new Lander (1.5 bn DM of this was allocated to the clean-up of open-pit coal mines).

Each year open-cast brown coal mining involves about 3000 hectares of new ground, with a period of 5 to 7 years elapsing between clearance and re-use.

After that, Mr. Ufuk Görgülu, Mechanical Engineer with Humintech, gave our guests a guided tour through the production halls and open cast lignite mine Garzweiler.

On the other side of the river (10km away) is the town Almalyk - industrial hub of the province famous for its gold, copper, silver, zinc, lead, molybdenum and rare earth metal mines as well as the third largest factory in the former Soviet Union. 100km away from Tashkent in the valley of the Akhangaran River the town of Angren lies, known for being the home to Uzbekistan's largest open-cast brown coal mine.

The RWE energy company will commence wide-scale forest clearance on October 14 to amalgamate the area with its lignite (brown coal) mine Garzweiler II.

You can then visit the memorial site of the former Marienborn checkpoint or the 350-metre-long original border installations at Hötensleben before continuing past the lignite opencast mine at Schöningen.