Mine expansion threatens German villages despite coal exit

Kuckum, Germany (AFP) July 26, 2020

Lost in the countryside of western Germany, the innocuously named L277 road has become a central battleground in a bitter fight over the country's plan to ditch coal. "It's psychological terror. The L277 was the last road which separated us from the mine. It was our red line, our border," 29-year-old David Dresen, a resident of Rhineland village Kuckum, told AFP. Dresen was one of dozen