Greenpeace to Bid For Germany Coal Plants, Mines | Al ...
Oct 06, 2015· The environmental activist group Greenpeace announced Tuesday that it plans to buy four coalfired power plants and their corresponding mines in eastern Germany so it can shut them down and prevent the mines from being expanded. Swedish power company Vattenfall, wholly owned by the Swedish government, currently owns the lignite (also called brown coal) plants and mines that .