Ende Gelände 2017

Ende Gelände 2017 was a large civil disobedience protest movement in Germany to limit global warming through fossil fuel phase-out.
- environmental activists from several countries blocked two German open-pit coal mines:

From 24 to 29 August 2017, about persons blocked a mine owned by RWE in the Rhineland coalfields.
On 5 November 2017, around persons blocked the Hambach lignite mine.

Context

On 15 August 2015, in the first year of Ende Gelände, activists blocked the Garzweiler surface mine owned by RWE.
On 13 to 15 May 2016, with Ende Gelände 2016, activists blocked the Welzow-Süd open-pit coal mine and the coal-fired Schwarze Pumpe power station, then owned by Vattenfall.