Ende Gelände 2017

Ende Gelände 2017 was a large civil disobedience protest movement in Germany to limit global warming through fossil fuel phase-out.

$3,000$-$6,000$ environmental activists from several countries blocked two German open-pit coal mines:
 * From 24 to 29 August 2017, about $6,000$ persons blocked a mine owned by RWE in the Rhineland coalfields.


 * On 5 November 2017 (for the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference), around $3,000$ persons blocked the Hambach lignite mine.

Context
On 15 August 2015, in the first year of Ende Gelände, $1,500$ activists blocked the Garzweiler surface mine owned by RWE (Ende Gelände 2015).

On 13 to 15 May 2016, with Ende Gelände 2016, $4,000$ activists blocked the Welzow-Süd open-pit coal mine and the coal-fired Schwarze Pumpe power station, then owned by Vattenfall (Spremberg).