Germany's dirty Colombian coal

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Local people call it "The Monster." It sprawls across more than 69,000 hectares, an area the size of 100 soccer fields, and gulps down 30 million liters of water every day in the barren semi-desert of Colombia's second-poorest department, La Guajira. In return, it assuages the global hunger for coal – in Germany, too – by producing 30 million tonnes of it per year.

El Cerrejon is the biggest open-cast coal mine in Latin America, and one of the biggest in the world. It is owned by the Swiss company Glencore. If Germany's chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has his way, "The Monster" will play a large part in ensuring that Germans don't have to freeze next winter. The chancellor spoke to his Colombian counterpart, Ivan Duque, about it in early April – because if Germany is to end its reliance on Russian coal, it must urgently find an alternative.

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https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-dirty-colombian-coal/a-61935515

Surprise, surprise...

Germany has some of the most expensive electricity in the "developed" world, in terms of Euro costs, in terms of environmental costs, and in terms of human costs.

Do they think their money will be a force for good in the nations they import their fossil fuels from?

So far it seems they've made some very bad choices.