Taking Worldwide, Rhenish recultivation is deemed exemplary not just among experts and it is steadily further developed. – A lease covering the Roddergrube mine near International specialists have attended two Brühl dating from 1766 demonstrates that, even recultivation congresses so far at the invitation then, former mining areas had to be replanted. of RWE to exchange news and views. Since then, the recultivation of opencast mining surfaces has been inseparably linked with High-quality recultivation is important because lignite extraction. The methods used in the lignite industry depends on good recultivation schemes have evolved steadily up neighbourly relations with the people in the a long learning curve. Down the decades, they region. But it is also indispensable because the have been adjusted to meet changing new landscape must offer a substitute and an objectives and include new scientific findings. offset, not only tempor- arily, but on a Today, the results obtained are deemed sustainable long-term basis as living and – exemplary worldwide, not just among experts. economic space for many generations to come. The learning is ongoing. Scientific studies by Rhenish opencast mines have used about 290 university institutes accompany the recultivation square kilometres of land so far. Of this, some schemes to benefit the work on the new 200 square kilometres have been rehabilitated, landscape. At Jüchen, RWE Power has set up including a good 103 square kilometres of a research unit for recultivation. It serves arable land, 77 square kilometres of forests, scientists as a port and 20 square kilometres of water and other of call, offering a library and laboratory for their surfaces. studies (www.forschungsstellerekultivierung.de). Rhenish lignite mining area A 46 Grevenbroich Operational areas Neurath Pulheim A 1 Former operational Niederaußem Garzweiler II areas under recultivation Recultivated arable Garzweiler I land Recultivated forest areas Fortuna-Nord Water surfaces Resettlement A 44 A 61 Cologne höhe Lignite upgrading plants Bergheim Lignite-fired power plants Bedburg Approved mining Jülich boundaries Frechen Hürth Inden Ville/Berrenrath Goldenberg- Werk A Weisweiler 4 Brühl
Taking Worldwide, Rhenish recultivation is deemed exemplary not just among experts – and it is steadily further developed. A lease covering the Roddergrube mine near Brühl dating from 1766 demonstrates that, even then, former mining areas had to be replanted. Since then, the recultivation of opencast mining surfaces has been inseparably linked with lignite extraction. The methods used in recultivation schemes have evolved steadily up a long learning curve. Down the decades, they have been adjusted to meet changing objectives and include new scientific findings. Today, the results obtained are deemed exemplary worldwide, not just among experts. The learning is ongoing. Scientific studies by university institutes accompany the recultivation schemes to benefit the work on the new landscape. At Jüchen, RWE Power has set up a research unit for recultivation. It serves scientists as a port of call, offering a library and laboratory for their studies (www.forschungsstellerekultivierung.de). International specialists have attended two recultivation congresses so far at the invitation of RWE to exchange news and views. High-quality recultivation is important because the lignite industry depends on good neighbourly relations with the people in the region. But it is also indispensable because the new landscape must offer a substitute and an offset, not only tempor- arily, but on a sustainable long-term basis – as living and economic space for many generations to come. Rhenish opencast mines have used about 290 square kilometres of land so far. Of this, some 200 square kilometres have been rehabilitated, including a good 103 square kilometres of arable land, 77 square kilometres of forests, and 20 square kilometres of water and other surfaces. Rhenish lignite mining area A 46 Grevenbroich Operational areas Former operational areas under recultivation Recultivated arable land Recultivated forest areas Garzweiler II Garzweiler I Neurath Niederaußem Pulheim A 1 Water surfaces Resettlement Lignite upgrading plants Lignite-fired power plants A 44 höhe Bedburg Fortuna-Nord A 61 Bergheim Cologne Approved mining boundaries Jülich Frechen Inden Weisweiler A 4 Hürth Ville/Berrenrath Goldenberg- Werk Brühl
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